Sadat had announced a new peace initiative…
June 1971 CE
A timetable will then be set for Israel's withdrawal from the rest of the occupied territories in accordance with UN Resolution 242.
Egypt will reopen the canal, restore diplomatic relations with the United States, which had been broken after the June 1967 War, and sign a peace agreement with Israel through Gunnar Jarring.
Sadat's initiative has fallen on deaf ears in Tel Aviv and in Washington, which is not disposed to assisting the Soviet Union's major client in the region.
Disillusioned by Israel's failure to respond to his initiative, Sadat rejects the Rogers Plan and the cease-fire.