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...Until Sadat's pilgrimage, no leader on either side of the Arab-Israeli blood feud had shown the courage, vision and flexibility to seek a radical solution to the festering problem. His hosts were at first surprised, then exalted, by his unexpected overture. As Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin then put it: "We, the Jews, know how to appreciate such courage...
...tens of thousands of Egyptians who, upon his return, greeted their smiling President with chants of "Sadat! The man of peace" as his open limousine slowly made its way from the airport to his home in Giza...
...peace process initiated by Sadat ultimately bore fruit at Camp David the next year. Over a period of 13 days, Sadat, Begin and Jimmy Carter remained cloistered in that Maryland mountain retreat while they hammered out their historic "framework for peace." (Their joint efforts brought Sadat and Begin the Nobel Peace Prize for 1978.) The Camp David principles were embodied in a formal treaty that was signed by the three leaders in an emotional White House ceremony on March 26, 1979. For the first time in 31 years, Egypt and Israel were no longer in a state...
...Sadat could not know it, but that day also marked the pinnacle of his career, the closest he would come in his lifetime to realizing what he called his "sacred mission" for peace in the Middle East...
That sense of belonging was one of the guiding forces of Sadat's life. "I can never lose my way because I know that I have living roots in the soil of my village," he wrote in his 1978 autobiography, In Search of Identity. One of 13 children, Sadat was born on Christmas Day, 1918, in the Nile Delta village of Mit Abu el Kom. His father was a military hospital clerk, his mother an illiterate Sudanese. He spent his early years working in the fields and attending the village kuttab, an Islamic school where he learned to read...