26 March 1979 A.D. Israel-Egypt Peace Agreement Signed
26 March 1979 A.D. Israel-Egypt Peace Agreement Signed
Editors. “Israel-Egyptian peace agreement signed.” This Day in U.S. Military History. 2009.
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/israel-egyptian-peace-agreement-signed. Accessed 25 Mar
2015.
In a ceremony at the White House,
Egyptian President Anwar el-Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin
sign a historic peace agreement, ending three decades of hostilities between
Egypt and Israel and establishing diplomatic and commercial ties.
Less than two years earlier, in an
unprecedented move for an Arab leader, Sadat traveled to Jerusalem, Israel, to
seek a permanent peace settlement with Egypt’s Jewish neighbor after decades of
conflict. Sadat’s visit, in which he met with Begin and spoke before Israel’s
parliament, was met with outrage in most of the Arab world. Despite criticism
from Egypt’s regional allies, Sadat continued to pursue peace with Begin, and
in September 1978 the two leaders met again in the United States, where they
negotiated an agreement with U.S. President Jimmy Carter at Camp David,
Maryland. The Camp David Accords, the first peace agreement between the state
of Israel and one of its Arab neighbors, laid the groundwork for diplomatic and
commercial relations. Seven months later, a formal peace treaty was signed.
For their achievement, Sadat and Begin
were jointly awarded the 1978 Nobel Prize for Peace. Sadat’s peace efforts were
not so highly acclaimed in the Arab world–Egypt was suspended from the Arab
League, and on October 6, 1981, Muslim extremists assassinated Sadat in Cairo.
Nevertheless, the peace process continued without Sadat, and in 1982 Egypt
formally established diplomatic relations with Israel.
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