Sadat and Camp David Reappraised
1985; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 15; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.2307/2536577
ISSN1533-8614
Autores Tópico(s)Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies
ResumoHigh above a mountaintop in Maryland, a sleek helicopter circled over thick stands of oak, maple, and poplar, then slowly settled down toward a cluster of cottages and a landing pad. Anwar al-Sadat, the president of Egypt, had arrived, and Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter were waiting. It was the afternoon of 5 September 1978 at Camp David, the start of a summit meeting that would change the face of the Middle East. According to Hasan al-Tuhamy, then and now a deputy prime minister and advisor to the president, the first full-dress meeting between the Egyptian and American delegations started with a blow to our faces. Carter told us, 'Here we shall start from the beginning and everything is negotiable.' The Egyptians were enraged, for they had come to Camp David, they insist, only because they believed that the United States had agreed to support basic Egyptian positions. Tuhamy says, I told Carter and his group, 'If you think you are coming here to negotiate every point from scratch, you are mistaken.' Tuhamy claims he went on to say that any agreement under which Israel failed to return the Sinai or to evacuate the territories occupied in the 1967 War or
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