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Middle East Crisis

Middle East Crisis. Continuing Hostility. After several wars, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat did the unthinkable No Arab country had recognized Israel’s right to exist. Sadat was willing to do this

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Middle East Crisis

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  1. Middle East Crisis

  2. Continuing Hostility • After several wars, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat did the unthinkable • No Arab country had recognized Israel’s right to exist. Sadat was willing to do this • In exchange for peace, Sadat asked Israel to recognize the rights of the Palestinians AND withdraw from captured Egyptian, Syrian, and Jordanian territory • Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Sadat met in Maryland with President Jimmy Carter to negotiate • The Result….The Camp David Accords

  3. All Was Still Not Peaceful • The Palestinians however continued to fight the Israeli’s. • The Israeli’s occupied the West Bank and Gaza, land they said was Palestinian • AN organization called the PLO fought the Israeli’s • PLO headed by Yasir Arafat. Many considered this group a terrorist organization • Violence against Israel by the PLO lasted from 1970’s in to late ’80’s

  4. The Oslo Peace Accords • The World had had enough! • Talks were held in Oslo, Norway • The Declaration of Principles was created • Israeli Prime Minister Yitzak Rabin granted Palestinians self rule in occupied territory • Many Israeli’s were angered with Rabin

  5. Almost Peace • With Rabin’s death and the new hard line Israeli government elected, peace was slipping away.

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