Word: heykal
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...Gamal Abdul Nasser's closest friends, Heykal had long been Egypt's leading theorist on anti-Israeli policy. His most important theory, articulated at the Khartoum conference of Arab states in December 1967, was the so-called two-stage strategy for destroying the Israeli state...
EVEN BEFORE HEYKAL's hasty departure from Al Ahram, Sadat had evidently decided to sweep this strategy out the door. From the very moment when Sadat came to power, his foreign policy has been one more of compromise than of confrontation. Coming in to the presidency three years after the Israelis seized the Arab lands, Sadat's problem was the daily humiliation of his people as they stared across armed lines at their own territories occupied by a foreign power...
Throughout all but the very last episode of the chronicle of Sadat's efforts, Heykal was politely, but distinctly critical. And after the war, Heykal's sentiments became particularly burdensome when Sadat agreed to sit down at the bargaining table in Geneva with the Israelis...
...REALIZATION that Sadat and increasing numbers of other Arab leaders have come to--but which Heykal, committed by 20 years of practice to a staunchly anti-Zionist line, could not allow--is that life with Israel is possible. Possible, that is, if only the constant shame of the occupied territories is ended...
...Sadat appears more and more to be interested in having his own little detente with the Americans. Perhaps coincidentally, on the same day he ousted Heykal, Sadat liberalized Egypt's foreign investment laws, encouraging outside businessmen and guaranteeing their investments won't be nationalized. In the same liberalization move, Sadat denationalized Egypt's movie theaters and made it easier for them to import American films. Between Lawrence of Arabia and Exodus, he hopes that popular support for settlement with Israel is bound to grow...