Camp David Accords

They hate each other.

This is just after the Camp David Accords of 1978.

And this was, of course, the agreement by which Israel gave back to Egypt the Sinai.

It won both Begin and Anwar Sadat of Egypt the Nobel Prize.

It's an agreement that has lasted, what, I think it's 46 years now, and it's still holding firm.

But it created a lot of animosity between Israel and the United States.

Carter, who was generally considered a weak president, but he was very strong in forcing Israel to agree to the Camp David Accords.

And it went through and it won the Nobel Prize.

And then Israel immediately said, its leaders, "We will hand all this back, everything." And we had the famous Arab four nos, no negotiations, no peace, no Israel.

And so basically, the prime minister was pointing out yesterday, Rick, that we have been trying, the Oslo Accords, the Camp David Accords, we've been trying to have a real peace with our neighbors, and he said it, "They don't want us here." And that's based on their religious beliefs that a Jewish state cannot rule over Muslims, uh, Jews cannot rule over Muslims, which is stated in the Quran, so they're not making that up.

And that that is the ultimate problem and the ultimate reason that there is no, uh, peace now.

It's not because the Israelis are taking land.

he also said he wanted to stop military aid to Egypt.

Yeah, so he wants to invalidate the Camp David Accords.

Good luck.

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He also said he wanted to stop military aid to Egypt.

Yeah, so he wants to invalidate the Camp David Accords.

Well, well, well, he wa-

Good luck [laughs]

He was in the Situation Room during crises.

He traveled abroad representing the administration, and he was there intimately involved during the biggest foreign policy success of the Carter administration, the Camp David Accords.

In September of 1978, Carter invited Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin to Camp David to negotiate peace.

These two countries had been at war off and on for thirty years.

Egypt is the other candidate, and Egypt operates one of the largest air forces on the African continent.

Egypt has F-16s as well, an enormous fleet of them, and it has been an American military partner since the Camp David Accords in nineteen seventy-eight.

Egypt is also geographically positioned in a way that makes aerial refueling capabilities strategically meaningful, with access to the Mediterranean, the Red Sea, and the Sinai.

What neither of these nations currently operates, to anyone's public knowledge, is a meaningful organic aerial refueling capability.

Yeah.

And you're not gonna have, I mean, I don't think you're even gonna necessarily need to have, uh, you know, Carter and, and the Camp David Accords.

I think that's gonna sort itself out more on its own-

I mean-

The, the point I'm trying to get across is this is not dictated on Americans' terms.

This is dictated by, I guess you can call local Middle Eastern Ottoman/Turkish terms, but it's being heavily backed, supported, funded by the West, for sure, 100%.

But I'm saying the Camp David Accords, the all of that lead up to what led to that happening, those factors in, that existed in our timeline, they're su- they're either subverted or they're expressing themselves in a different way in the alternate timeline to where it's not necessary.

The peace is still going to happen.