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...took a trip to Tel Aviv by Egypt's then-President Anwar Sadat, which implicitly recognized Israel's right to exist, to get that process rolling. A move by any of the Arab countries to end the economic boycott, cease the state of war with Israel or simply agree to sit down and talk could lead to similarly significant breakthroughs...
...after Egypt became the first and so far only Arab country to make formal peace with Israel, most of the Arab world broke relations with Cairo. Mubarak, who became President in 1981 after Anwar Sadat was assassinated, has concentrated on establishing a mood of moderation at home while mending ties with fellow Arabs. Of 21 members in the Arab League, all 18 that broke diplomatic relations with Egypt then have since resumed them. Last week Mubarak further demonstrated his diplomatic skills by playing host first to Libya's mercurial Muammar Gaddafi, whom he has wooed diplomatically for two years...
...took on new urgency, and new meaning, with the creation of Israel in 1948. Since then the term has been used -- and abused -- to justify at least three regional wars plus terrorism and murder, not only against infidels but also toward fellow Muslims such as Egypt's President Anwar Sadat...
...would be expected to lose a fight with a superpower, but he might well gain respect for standing up to the U.S. hard and long. In both the U.S. State Department and the Middle East, experts note apprehensively that Egyptian Presidents Gamal Abdel Nasser in 1956 and Anwar Sadat in 1973 suffered severe military beatings yet gained heavily in prestige -- Nasser so much so that he became the predominant leader of the Arab world. True, the analogies are very far from perfect. The U.N. and U.S. in effect reversed Nasser's 1956 defeat after a cease-fire, bringing , political pressure...
...close friends familiar with Basa's activities, his daring had earned him a nickname. He was the "Hero of the Crossing," the same admiring sobriquet awarded Anwar Sadat after the Egyptian army crossed the Suez Canal during the 1973 October War with Israel. Now, at 40, with a wife and nine children safely out of Kuwait, Basa was headed for jail with phony papers identifying him as a citizen of Qatar. "That's what saved me," says Basa, recalling the story he had carefully rehearsed against the possibility of capture. "I told the Iraqis that I was just another expatriate...