The Camp David Accords turn 30

Today, Sept. 17, is the 30th anniversary of the signing of the Camp David Accords. Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin met with U.S. President Jimmy Carter at Camp David, Maryland, for 13 tense days — from Sept. 5 to Sept. 17, 1978 — to hammer out the agreements that led to the March ...

By , copy chief at Foreign Policy from 2009-2016 and was an assistant editor from 2007-2009.
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Today, Sept. 17, is the 30th anniversary of the signing of the Camp David Accords. Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin met with U.S. President Jimmy Carter at Camp David, Maryland, for 13 tense days -- from Sept. 5 to Sept. 17, 1978 -- to hammer out the agreements that led to the March 26, 1979, peace treaty between Egypt and Israel. Under the terms of the treaty, Israel agreed to withdraw from Sinai, Egypt agreed to allow Israeli ships to traverse the Suez Canal, and the two agreed to establish normal diplomatic relations.

Today, Sept. 17, is the 30th anniversary of the signing of the Camp David Accords. Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin met with U.S. President Jimmy Carter at Camp David, Maryland, for 13 tense days — from Sept. 5 to Sept. 17, 1978 — to hammer out the agreements that led to the March 26, 1979, peace treaty between Egypt and Israel. Under the terms of the treaty, Israel agreed to withdraw from Sinai, Egypt agreed to allow Israeli ships to traverse the Suez Canal, and the two agreed to establish normal diplomatic relations.

Carter and Sadat on Sept. 6, 1978 Carter and Begin on Mar. 26, 1979

Of course, those days weren’t the last time Carter met with the leaders of Egypt and Israel. Here are a couple recent shots of the former president, still at it:

With Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak on Apr. 17, 2008 With then-interim Israeli PM Ehud Olmert on Jan. 22, 2006

Preeti Aroon was copy chief at Foreign Policy from 2009-2016 and was an assistant editor from 2007-2009. Twitter: @pjaroonFP

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