Epstein Secrets

against the wider peace negotiations agreed with President Carter and Sadat at Camp David. At Begin's insistence, C

th Egypt, there was surely no reason to hold on to it. The moment of truth came almost 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_028032 a pea

back everything." The only exception was Taba, a sliver of land where the Negev met the eastern edge of the Sinai, across from the Jordanian town of Aqaba. "Was there no way to convince them, even with some kind of a land swap, to keep the two air bases?" I asked "Believe me, we wanted to," Ezer replied

h Egypt, there was surely no reason to hold on to it. The moment of truth came almost 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 a pea

against the wider peace negotiations agreed with President Carter and Sadat at Camp David. At Begin’s insistence, C

back everything.” The only exception was Taba, a sliver of land where the Negev met the eastern edge of the Sinai, across from the Jordanian town of Aqaba. “Was there no way to convince them, even with some kind of a land swap, to keep the two air bases?” I asked. “Believe me, we wanted to,” Ezer repl

ortance of a third-party broker. When President Sadat and his counterpart, Prime Minister Menachem Begin of Israel, reached a stalemate, US President Jimmy Carter invited the parties to his presidential estate for trilateral discussions on 5 September 1978. Three scheduled days of negotiations turned into thirt

e discus- sions were unable to break the impasse, President Carter decided to work separately with both sides. The r

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