The outlook for peace between Israel and…
November 1977 CE
Israel still holds most of Sinai, and negotiations have been at a stalemate since the second disengagement agreement in 1975.
Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin is a hard-liner and a supporter of Israeli expansion.
He approves the development of settlements on the occupied West Bank and reprisal raids into
southern Lebanon.
He also refuses to approve any negotiation with the PLO.
After the food riots of January 1977, Sadat had decided that something dramatic had to be done, and so on November 19, 1977, in response to an invitation from Begin, Sadat journeys to Jerusalem.
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