The president who secured the Egyptian-Israeli peace accord in 1978 went on to become the target of vitriol for his warnings that Israel was headed toward apartheid
Despite some questionable statements, Carter accomplished much for the Jewish people
Nations don’t make peace, people do. That fundamental rule of foreign policy is at the crux of “Camp David,” Lawrence Wright’s new play about the 1979 Israel-Egypt peace negotiations, which is receiving its world premiere at Washington’s venerable Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater. Wright, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “The Looming…
Samuel Lewis, an influential U.S. ambassador to Israel who helped broker the Camp David peace agreement, has died. Lewis, a career diplomat, died Monday at the age of 83. He was ambassador to Israel from 1977-1985, a period during which Israel and Egypt achieved a peace agreement brokered by President Carter. Lewis, who was not…
The Central Intelligence Agency declassified documents dealing with the Camp David Accords. The 1,400 pages of intelligence, dated from January 1977 to March 1979, were declassified on Wednesday, The Associated Press reported. The documents cover the time period from before the summit to the following spring, when Egypt and Israel signed the peace treaty. President…
Recent unrest and violence in Sinai are leaving more than 1,500 troops from the United States and other countries exposed as they seek to maintain a peacekeeping mission there that many experts now criticize as anachronistic. The troops’ presence in Sinai, mandated by the 1979 Camp David peace accords between Israel and Egypt, has served…
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