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In 1978, Egyptian President Sadat and Israeli President Begin signed the Camp David Accords which brokered an official peace between the two nations. Israel gave back the territory of the Sinai Peninsula it had gained during the 1967 Six Day War and Israel received Egypt’s diplomatic recognition of their right to exist. It was a break-through that did not spread to similar deals with other nations. Eventually, Sadat paid for his signing with his life as he was assassinated by a Muslim extremist who disagreed with his policy.

Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) became the official mouthpiece for the Palestinian people with Yasser Arafat as its leader. The PLO moved from a publicity-grabbing terrorist organization born in the 1960s to a political movement (Fatah), later establishing control of the West Bank (still under Israeli military occupation) through the Palestinian…