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...disillusioned with the colonel's policies. "It is true that the revolution liberated the Egyptian people and pushed them into modern life," says Mahfouz, "but it led to many wars that tired us out." Mahfouz found himself at the center of controversy in 1979 when he publicly backed Anwar Sadat's peace treaty with Israel. As a result, he was denounced by ; Islamic fundamentalists, and his works were banned in many Arab countries...
Also during the late 1970s, Kalb said, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat began to capitalize on media interest in Palestinian discontent after Arab terrorism first attracted reporters' attention...
...still remember Sadat smoking a pipe, magnificently dressed, clean-cut, doing an interview with Walter Cronkite," said Kalb. "Through Sadat, other Arab leaders began to exploit [the press] for their own policy aims...
...believe that the Palestinians, or most of them, want to defeat Israel, to destroy and to recapture the land that they claim was taken from them by the Jews. This was also the goal of President Sadat of Egypt until his realization that to acheive this objective he would have to destroy Egypt in the process. It was this moment of realization that turned him from an implacable foe of Israel into a potential partner for negotiation...
Could the P.L.O. ever deliver an unconditional statement acknowledging Israel's right to exist? For the U.S. to be impressed, a senior Administration official says, "it's got to be something big, comparable to Anwar Sadat's trip to Jerusalem," which led to the Israeli-Egyptian peace treaty of 1979. But in the West Bank last week came an echo of the savage internal P.L.O. feuding that has almost always paralyzed Arafat when he has undertaken diplomatic initiatives. Any Palestinian serving in the proposed provisional government, warned a leaflet circulated by an anti-Arafat faction, "will be tried...