Word: sadat
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...country's leaders, men like Begin, President Yitzhak Navon, former Defense Minister Ezer Weizman and Labor Party Leader Shimon Peres, who knew Sadat and worked with him, were genuinely moved and saddened. Right-wing extremists were overjoyed, anticipating that Sadat's death might mean Israel would retain its hold on part of the Sinai...
There was very little public awareness inside Israel that the country's refusal to budge significantly on the Palestinian issue had contributed to Sadat's recent problems: as long as a wider Palestinian settlement (going beyond the Camp David autonomy provisions) was not in sight, Arab moderates like Sadat would steadily lose ground to the rejectionists. But there also was impatience in Israel with the views of the right wing. As a Jerusalem lawyer put it, "When I hear those people talking about stopping the Sinai withdrawal because of Sadat's assassination, it hurts me to say that perhaps...
...Arab side, the reactions were even more disparate. A few states were stunned?Morocco, Oman, and the Sudan, which had been Sadat's closest ally and, like Egypt, had suffered from Libya's belligerency. But in Libya, happy flag-waving crowds shouted their approval. In Lebanon, Palestinian commandos danced in the streets as if celebrating a victory. "We shake the hand that pulled the trigger," said one fedayeen commander. Palestine Liberation Organization Leader Yasser Arafat, who was in Peking, declared: "What we are witnessing is the beginning of the failure of the Camp David agreement with the fall...
...real perceptions of the Arabs, and particularly the Palestinians, toward Sadat are exceedingly complex. Leaving aside Gaddafi (as well as that non-Arab Muslim fanatic to the east, Iran's Ayatullah Khomeini, who late last week called on Egyptians to overthrow "the dead Pharaoh's successors" and replace his government with a Khomeini-style Islamic republic), the Arabs felt betrayed by Sadat. What was statesmanship to the West was treason in their eyes. Of course, they envied him: they could not forgive him for getting back more Arab land by negotiating than they had achieved by other means. They were...
...warplanes. The rule of the Israelis on the West Bank became even more oppressive. The setback to the Palestinian people by the treaty was incalculable. All of this happened after Camp David, and so it is hard to reconcile the realities with the praise that is being showered on Sadat by the Western media...