1978 Middle East Peace Talks
“If you fail, we’re done. We will sap our stature as national leaders. We’ve got to find some less risky way of trying to find peace there.”
-- Vice President Walter Mondale (1978)
President Carter has decided to make a bold bid to make an all-out effort to secure peace in the Middle East, inviting the leaders of Israel and Egypt to Camp David. His advisers were not optimistic.
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On a scratch pad, Carter listed all the reasons that the two countries had to make peace, and then confidently wrote, “First Egyptian-Jewish peace since the time of Joseph.” He then scratched out “Joseph” and wrote “Jeremiah” - the despairing prophet of the seventh century BCE, who foretold the destruction of both the Israelites and the Egyptians because of their faithlessness and stubbornness:
We wait for peace to no avail;
for a time of healing, but terror comes instead.
-- Lawrence Wright, “Thirteen Days in September: Carter, Begin, and Sadat at Camp David”
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-- Vice President Walter Mondale (1978)
President Carter has decided to make a bold bid to make an all-out effort to secure peace in the Middle East, inviting the leaders of Israel and Egypt to Camp David. His advisers were not optimistic.
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On a scratch pad, Carter listed all the reasons that the two countries had to make peace, and then confidently wrote, “First Egyptian-Jewish peace since the time of Joseph.” He then scratched out “Joseph” and wrote “Jeremiah” - the despairing prophet of the seventh century BCE, who foretold the destruction of both the Israelites and the Egyptians because of their faithlessness and stubbornness:
We wait for peace to no avail;
for a time of healing, but terror comes instead.
-- Lawrence Wright, “Thirteen Days in September: Carter, Begin, and Sadat at Camp David”
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