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Jake Caron's List: Camp David Accords

  • May 17, 11

    The Treaty That Brought Two Enemies Together

  • May 17, 11

    Negotiating is always hard when your dealing with someone you dont really like. Negotiating with someone who has commanded soldiers to go into your country to kill you is almost impossible yet Jimmy Carter managed to do the imposible and make it happen. Menachem Begin (Israel leader) and Anwar Sadat (Egypt leader) have been clashing heads for years and if it wasnt for Jimmy Carter who knows what could have happened between these two countries. Fortunately, after getting them in the same room and talking they noticed they were a lot alike. They wanted peace for their country and for their people so after weeks of negotiating they came up with a successful peace treaty. This event is know as the Camp David Accords.

  • May 17, 11

    The Who?

    • Menachem Begin

    • Anwar Sadat

    • Jimmy Carter

    The Peace Treaty

    • The talks actually started in 1977, but when they broke down Carter got them going again at Camp David

    • Basically it is “land for Peace”; Egypt recognizes Israel and the peninsula is returned to Egypt.

  • May 17, 11

    Like I put in the book significance, within the first 10 days of the negotiations the talks deteriorated to the point that neither Begin nor Sadat would speak to each other which made the eventual signing of the Camp David Accords so monumental and important. In 1979 Anwar Sadat and Menchaem Begin shook hands in Washington DC which finalized the peace treaty. This event was the start of many Arab countries eventually realization that Israel isn't going anywhere. Also Egypt agreed to follow resolution 242 and stop supporting terrorists. This was a great opportunity and the US government was willing to help both sides to make the treaty work out.

  • May 16, 11

    Book Significance:

    Book Title: Israel and the Arab World

    Citation: Wagner, Heather L. Israel and the Arab world. Philadelphia: Chelsea House Publishers, 2002. Print.

    Information:

    - Within the first 10 days of the negotiations the talks deteriorated to the point that neither Begin nor Sadat would speak to each other which made the eventual signing of the Camp David Accords so monumental and important.(pg 68)

    - In 1979 Anwar Sadat and Menchaem Begin shook hands in Washington DC which finalized the peace treaty. (pg 70)

    - The US offered to pay for more Israeli military bases if Begin would give up airfields in the Sinai and give up the Jewish settlements in the northern part of the peninsula. (pg 70)

    - Israel eventually gave up the region to Egypt.

    - Both parties agreed to press forward towards a peace treaty and to move toward full and normal relations.(pg 70)

  • May 16, 11

    This gives a really good overview of the Camp David Accords
    This is my Web Source!

    Citation: Camp David Accords - September 17, 1978. n.d. Web. 16 May 2011. <http://www.mfa.gov.il/mfa/go.asp?MFAH00ie0>.

    www.mfa.gov.il/...Camp%20David%20Accords

    •   Camp David Accords
      September 17, 1978       

       

        After twelve days of secret negotiations at Camp David, the Israeli-Egyptian negotiations were concluded by the signing at the White House of two agreements. The first dealt with the future of the Sinai and peace between Israel and Egypt, to be concluded within three months. The second was a framework agreement establishing a format for the conduct of negotiations for the establishment of an autonomy regime in the West Bank and Gaza. The Israel-Egypt agreement clearly defined the future relations between the two countries, all aspects of withdrawal from the Sinai, military arrangements in the peninsula such as demilitarization and limitations, as well as the supervision mechanism. The framework agreement regarding the future of Judea, Samaria and Gaza was less clear and was later interpreted differently by Israel, Egypt, and the US. President Carter witnessed the accords which were signed by Egyptian President Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Begin.

      • - After 12 days of secret negotiations Israel and Egypt finally concluding them by signing at the White House.

    • Taking these factors into account, the parties are determined to reach a just, comprehensive, and durable settlement of the Middle East conflict through the conclusion of peace treaties based on Security Council resolutions 242 and 338 in all their parts. Their purpose is to achieve peace and good neighborly relations. They recognize that for peace to endure, it must involve all those who have been most deeply affected by the conflict. They therefore agree that this framework, as appropriate, is intended by them to constitute a basis for peace not only between Egypt and Israel, but also between Israel and each of its other neighbors which is prepared to negotiate peace with Israel on this basis. With that objective in mind, they have agreed to proceed as follows:

      • -The peace treaty was built on the conclusion that they would be following the security councils resolution of 242.

  • May 17, 11

    Between Israel taking the peninsula and building settlements I am surprised that Jimmy Carter got both parties in the same room and got them to negotiate there problems in a civil manor. The fact that they went from hating each other to being allies and shaking hands at Washington is a miracle. People remember this period in time by all the wars and the agressive moves but what really matters is how they came together and turned a bad situation into a good one. Its not all about hate and aggressiveness, you have to let the love in, and they did that at the Camp David Accords.

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