Word: sadat
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...rest of the Sinai peninsula to Egypt in April, "Egypt will go back into [the] Arab world, with [the] U.S. isolated as Israel's sole defender." Egypt's position, he said, is "180° different" under Hosni Mubarak than it had been under slain President Anwar Sadat...
...that he could not increase his Jewish support regardless of what he did. Deep down, he wanted to impose a comprehensive Middle East settlement. In October 1972, I forwarded to Nixon a memorandum from Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird urging secret contacts with Egypt to take advantage of Sadat's expulsion of the Soviets and to move closer to the Arab position. Nixon sent me the memo with a note: "K-I lean to Laird's view. The conduct of the American Jewish community on the Soviet visa problem clearly indicates they put Jewish interests above U.S. concerns...
When Faisal went on to argue that the Jewish-Communist conspiracy was now trying to take over the American Government, I decided to try to change the subject. I did not help matters by referring to Sadat as the leader of the Arabs. His Majesty's morose reaction showed that there was a limit beyond which claims to Arab solidarity could not be pushed...
Mubarak pushed hard for the right to shift expenditures from the ambitious develop ments favored by Sadat, such as building cement factories, to small-scale construction, especially of housing. He also wants to change commodity imports from luxuries to staples...
...does not want the price of its requests for aid to be pressure to sign an unsatisfactory agreement with Israel on Palestinian autonomy or, for that matter, other overt concessions that would make Egypt lose credibility in the Arab world. Says one Egyptian observer: "Many Egyptians think America stamped Sadat as the American stooge. America should not try to do that with Mubarak. That is dangerous for him and bad for America...