Egypt's Struggle for Peace: Continuity and Change, 1967-1977

Yoram Meital's study is the first to trace systematically the processes that led from the 1967 war to the beginning of Egyptian-Israeli reconciliation marked by President Anwar Sadat's visit to Israel in late 1977. He provides a detailed, chronologically structured account of the steps leading from 1967 to the Jerusalem visit, and he demonstrates how Sadat's visit, while personally and politically courageous, was nevertheless completely in keeping with Egypt's course of national interest set out nearly a decade earlier.