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Anwar Sadat Research Paper

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Anwar Sadat has impacted the peace process in the Arab-Israeli conflict through the role he played in the Camp David Accords. He is liked by the Israelis for the peace he brought between Egypt and Israel, but is disliked by the Arabs for the same reason. In June of 1967, the Six Day War took place between Israel, Egypt, Jordan, and Syria. Israel launched a preemptive strike against Egypt, and through excellent strategy, Israel won the war and inhabited the territories of the Gaza Strip, the West Bank, the Golan Heights, and the Sinai Peninsula. In 1970, Anwar Sadat was elected president of Egypt. Unlike Gamal Abdul Nasser, the president before Sadat, Sadat was willing to approach the topic of peace with Israel. He was amenable to have a peaceful relationship with Israel, if Israel gave the Sinai Peninsula back to Egypt. When this did not happen, Egypt, along with Syria, attacked Israel in October 1973. Egyptian …show more content…

In making peace with Israel and ignoring the plight of the Palestinians, the Arab countries felt betrayed by Sadat. In 1979, Egypt was suspended from the Arab League, an organization of Arab countries in the Middle East and Africa. In the years after the Yom Kippur War, Sadat held a parade commemorating the event. The parade celebrated the Egyptian army crossing over the Suez Canal, and was held on the day the Yom Kippur War started. It was at this parade that Sadat was killed by Muslim extremists, on October 6th, 1981. The Muslim extremists, who were angry at his peacemaking with Israel, were a part of the Egyptian Islamic terrorist group al-Jihad. The terrorists, along with Egyptians and other Arab countries, felt that Sadat had turned his back on the Palestinian people. Israelis had a different view of Sadat, even naming a local plaza in Tel Aviv after him. Israel is extremely grateful to Sadat for his actions in the conflict. Sadat gave Israel the one thing they wanted:

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