U.S. President Nixon meets Soviet president Leonid…
1972 CE
For Sadat this position is intolerable.
The June 1967 War had been a humiliating defeat for the Arabs.
Without a military victory, any Arab leader who agrees to negotiate directly with Israel will do so from a position of extreme weakness
the same time, the United States and the Soviet Union are urging restraint and caution.
However, the United States refuses to put pressure on Israel to make concessions, and the Soviet Union, which had broken off diplomatic relations with Israel as a result of the June 1967 War, has no influence over Israel.
Internally, the Egyptian economy is being steadily drained by the confrontation with Israel.
Economic problems are becoming more serious because of the tremendous amount of resources directed toward building up the military since the June 1967 War, and it is clear that Sadat will have to demonstrate some results from this policy.
In the last half of 1972, there are large-scale student riots, and some journalists come out
publicly in support of the students. Thus, Sadat feels under increasing pressure to go to war against Israel as the only way to regain the lost territories.
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