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Culture How ‘Camp David’ Peace Talks Became the Stuff of Drama
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…
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Breaking News Samuel Lewis, Camp David Diplomat, Dies at 83
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…
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Breaking News CIA Declassifies Documents Relating to Camp David Accords
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…
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Israel News Sinai Chaos Threatens Peacekeeping Mission
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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