Sadat’s Journey, 30 Years After
Anwar Sadat's peace overture in November 1977 shook away Israel’s siege mentality and gave psychological living space to an otherwise claustrophobic nation in the midst of a hostile Arab world. But the gate to Israeli-Arab reconciliation remains where it was always been – in the hands of the Palestinians.
TOLEDO -- If “one man of courage makes a majority,” as Andrew Jackson said, then 30 years ago, in November 1977, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat was such a man. His peace overture to Israel stunned the Middle East. He had, as he put it, gone “to the end of the earth” (the Knesset in Jerusalem), and in doing so transformed the region’s politics beyond recognition.