Where Sadat appears
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… to a “greater Israel”. Though he did make it clear his views on the shape of an eventual peace differed from Sadat’s, he proposed further talks with the aim of finding an agreement both sides could live with. Still, like all Israelis, I kn...
… and huge Israeli losses in the early days of the war – had shattered our aura of invincibility. Politically, Sadat had gone a long way to erasing the humiliation of 1967. That freed him to do something which – after decades of Arab-Israeli...
…n after we’d left. It, too had its roots in the 1973 war, but on the Arab side. Before the war, Egypt’s Anwar Sadat had extended feelers about the possibility of peace negotiations, only to see them ignored. Israel won the war in the end. B...
etails. Though still just a colonel, I’d risen through Sayeret Matkal. I knew the planning process from the other side as well, having attended the same sort of meetings, from the early 1960s, to present our operations. So I was often asked...
d at least try to play, beautiful music. And to spend more than a few stolen evenings or weekends with my family. The timing had nothing to do with the election. Like most other Labor Israelis, and many of Begin’s own supporters, I hadn’t e...
…vily on a “kitchen cabinet” of trusted ministers and a few close advisers. The inquiry material described how Sadat had been extending negotiating feelers before the war. And how Golda, Eli Zeira, Dado and Dayan had responded. It was like a...
…or. Center and periphery. Old and new. This is dangerous. The late Tunisian President Bourguiba (and later on Sadat in his debates with Assad just before the peace treaty with Israel) made the argument that there's no need to defeat Israel...
… 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...
…he Multilateral Force and Observers (MFO). 7 August 1981 Fahd Plan. 6 October 1981 Assassination of President Sadat. Vice President Mubarak succeeds him. 14 December 1981 The Israel Knesset passes a law annexing the Golan Heights. 17 Decemb...
