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...called it "a sacred mission," and history may judge it so. By the trajectory of his 28-minute flight from a base in the Canal Zone to Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion Airport, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat changed the course of Middle Eastern events for generations to come. More emphatically than anything that has happened there since the birth of Israel in 1948, his extraordinary pilgrimage transformed the political realities of a region blackened and embittered by impermeable hatreds and chronic war. In one stroke, the old rules of the Arab-Israeli blood feud no longer applied. Many...
...Middle East been stronger. If his specific initiative proves unfruitful, there remains a danger that both sides might once again gear up for war. And yet it seems unlikely that the past's bitter patterns of stagnation and violence could return. The very memory of Anwar Sadat at Ben Gurion Airport, at Al Aqsa mosque, at the Knesset, will serve as an enduring reminder that a better way for the Middle East is possible...
Sadat's visit to Jerusalem brings to mind the late David Ben-Gurion's famous saying: "In Israel in order to be a realist, you must believe in miracles...
...minutes to 8 on Saturday night?the evening arrival was carefully chosen so as not to violate the Jewish Sabbath?the Egyptian white Boeing 707, its red trim glistening under klieg lights, rolled to a stop at Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion Airport. Israeli army trumpeters blared out a welcoming fanfare. As thousands of Israelis waved their newly purchased red-white-and-black Egyptian flags, out stepped President Anwar Sadat on a "sacred mission"?to speak directly to the people of Israel about peace...
Indeed, as the furies rose among more fanatical Arab groups, one of the safest places Sadat might have found was Israel. Four Israeli Kfir fighters escorted the presidential plane to Ben Gurion Airport, which was closed to all other traffic. In Jerusalem, 10,000 policemen were on guard, as well as 2,000 security agents and a special antiterrorist commando unit of the Israel Defense Force. The 1,500-member border police was fully mobilized, and units were stationed at key points