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Interview: 'I Am Frustrated'; Former U.S. president Jimmy Carter looks back on the Camp David accords, and a quarter century of broken promises.(Interview)
Byline: Christopher Dickey
The Camp David accords that U.S. President Jimmy Carter negotiated in 1978 between Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin were supposed to be the beginning of the end of the Middle East's terrible conflicts. Yet the situation in the region continues to deteriorate. In his book "Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid," to be published next month, Carter takes a tough look at the reasons. Last week the 82-year-old former president spoke with NEWSWEEK's Christopher Dickey. Excerpts:
DICKEY: Do you remember the moment Sadat was killed?
CARTER: Absolutely. I was at home and they told me at first that Sadat had only been slightly wounded. So I prayed that he would recover. And then they called me back within the hour to say that Sadat had been killed. It was like losing my own brother because Sadat was the closest of all foreign leaders to me. He was the boldest and most courageous and most effective I've known.
Yet some Egyptians and other Arabs say he moved too far too fast, that his people weren't ready to make peace.
Obviously he parted ways with a fringe element of fanatics who later assassinated him. But behind the scenes, other Arab leaders gave me every encouragement for the peace treaty and the Camp David accords. And that included Saudi Arabia, Jordan and some others who later, because of a desire for unanimity among the Arab League, boycotted Sadat. I don't think that he was ahead of the vast majority of his people.
But it's been a cold peace, without a real mixing of Israelis and Egyptians.
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