The First Yitzhak Rabin Government and the Advancement of the Interim Peace Agreement with Egypt
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Yom Kippur War, Israel–Egypt Relations, Egyptian–Israeli Peace, Henry Kissinger, Anwar Sadat, Yitzhak Rabin, Interim Agreement - September 1975Abstract
The 1973 Yom Kippur War was a major traumatic event in the history of Israel and Egypt as it forced both states to recognize the limits of their power. Egypt finally understood that its long held goal to annihilate the State of Israel was unrealistic. Israel realized that the Arab World would never accept the status quo created after the 1967 Six-Day War and that Israel would have to make painful compromises on the road to peace. These understandings created a dramatic change in Egyptian-Israeli relations. The heightened involvement of the United States and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger brought the leaders of Egypt and Israel, Anwar Sadat and Yitzhak Rabin, closer than ever before to a comprehensive peace agreement. The interim agreement of September 1975 is the subject of this article. In historical perspective, it was a momentous milestone on the road to the Egyptian-Israeli Peace Treaty that was signed in March 1979.
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