Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, despite deep-seated animosities, prioritized their nations’ futures over past grievances. Carter’s pragmatism helped bridge their divides ...
Carter summoned Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat to Camp David to make peace, not apartheid, in the Middle East. But the Israeli president broke his promise to freeze settlements. Ad Policy Egyptian ...
In “How Jimmy Carter and Menachem Begin Clashed Over the Bible” (op-ed, Jan. 4), Meir Soloveichik quotes a member of President Carter’s 1978 Camp David team describing Begin, then the prime ...
Begin, in a friendly challenge to Sadat, urged that the treaty be concluded before three months elapse. Sadat applauded the overture and nodded in agreement. Carter said Israel would withdraw its ...
Carter, with the help of advisors like Brzezinski and Vance, shuttled between Begin and Sadat, keeping either side from abandoning talks. By the summer of 1978, Carter had earned the trust of both ...
Then, of course, there were the 13 extraordinary days when Carter hosted Israel’s Menachem Begin and Egypt’s Anwar Sadat for peace talks at Camp David. Egypt and Israel have now been at peace ...
PLAINS, Ga. — Before reaching the 1978 peace deal between Egypt’s Anwar Sadat and Israel’s Menachem Begin, Jimmy Carter managed months of intense preparation, high-stakes negotiations at ...