Where Sadat appears
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… to propose a cease-fire in the south. But having retaken the Suez Canal and pushed into the Sinai, President Sadat was in no mood to call a halt to the fighting. The only way we were going to end the war was to retake the canal and defeat...
…st exactly 10 months later, in September 1978. American President Jimmy Carter hosted a summit with Begin and Sadat at Camp David, in search of a “framework agreement” for final negotiations on 184 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_011655
Rabin, too, puffing furiously on his cigarette. When the erect figure of Sadat emerged, there was spontaneous applause, and a serenade from Israeli army trumpeters. Even before Sadat’s Knesset address the next day, I understood that his vis...
… fighting ahead, and we were part of it: taking out the SAM sites, engaging units of the Third Army and, with Sadat now pressing the Americans for a cease-fire and many Egyptian units clearly losing the will to fight on, racing against the...
I felt an almost familial sense of bereavement. Sadat was
with Sadat now pressing the Americans for a cease-fire and
…utual respect, and to create a better future for our children.” Arafat said he hoped that the peace Begin and Sadat had made at Camp David would prove an auspicious example. “With the help of President Clinton, we could reach a deal that is...
Sadat and Begin had done there before, would deliver the breakthrough that I believed ought to be possible. For that to happen, I told the President, I believed it was essential that Arafat truly understood the importance of what was at sta...
… our defences and striking towns and cities deep inside Israel. No one pressed the alternative scenario: that Sadat might strike with more limited territorial objectives and, under cover of his SAM batteries on the other side of the Suez Ca...
y Sinai command, President Anwar Sadat was shot and killed by an extremist Muslim officer at the annual Cairo military parade to mark the anniversary of the 1973 war. Like many Israelis, I felt an almost familial sense of bereavement. Sadat...
oughly one-third of the Egyptian desert we still held, knowing that we’d no longer have the room to do so after the final withdrawal. It was the largest exercise I’d ever commanded. The advances and tactical retreats, the flanking maneuvers...
egin, at his rally, played it like a virtuoso. “Did you hear what they called you?” he cried. Chachachim. He slightly mispronounced the word, as if he’d never heard, much less used, it before, and that even having to repeat it made his bloo...
. Begin had recently lost both Ezer and Dayan, who accused him of deliberatedly torpedoing chances of building on the peace with Egypt. But Arik was still there, four-square behind a more forceful military posture on Israel’s other fronts....
…ngth, and painting Peres as someone who would risk our security by going further than the separate peace with Sadat. Begin had no more experience or knowledge of military details than Shimon. But from his days in the pre-state Irgun, he’d b...
, and he had the final say. I’d evidently been right to assume I would figure no higher in his estimation than I had as sayeret commander. To be fair, however, he did agree to my becoming commander of Dan’s reserve division in the south: th...
ly learning English and ending up with a perfectly American accent which has never left her. Yael has less vivid memories of our time there. But we’d had the nearest thing to a normal family life since our first, war-truncated, time at Stan...
… to uniform. Since Camp David, our negotiators and the Egyptians had been trying to thrash out a formal deal. Sadat was being denounced as a traitor in the Arab world. Begin was seen by most in the outside world, and many Israelis, as dragg...
ey were investigating the effect of human bias and other subjective factors on how we perceive reality, and thus make decisions. Tversky’s work especially fascinated me, because it questioned a basic assumption in the kind of predictive for...
I said the obvious: if that’s what was necessary for peace, there was no other choice. We were now well into our final year at Stanford. Our home was in a leafy “student village” off campus, called Escondito, for married students from abroa...
…st exactly 10 months later, in September 1978. American President Jimmy Carter hosted a summit with Begin and Sadat at Camp David, in search of a “framework agreement” for final negotiations on 184 a peace treaty. Again, I was watching clos...
