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Needed for Middle East Peace: Another Anwar Sadat
Forty years ago, the Egyptian leader took a big risk in visiting Jerusalem. It paid off, says the writer, who helped arrange it.
Yukking it up at the Knesset.
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The Donald Trump administration is busy putting together a “concrete blueprint” for solving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, according to the New York Times.
Blueprints are fine. So are good intentions, State Department position papers, CIA maps of disputed territory, economic inducements and diplomatic pressure. Every American president since Richard Nixon has had them for the Middle East. But they have never been enough to achieve what Trump calls, “the ultimate deal.”