Anwar Sadat, President of Egypt, was the first Arab Leader to recognize Israel.
Egypt (Anwar Sadat) in 1979 and Jordan (Hussein ibn Abdullah) in 1994.
Camp David.
On May 15, 1948, the day after Israel's Declaration of Independence , five Arab Nations (Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan, Syria, and Iraq) declared war on Israel and they were assisted by armies sent from Saudi Arabia and Yemen. The Arab armies' inability to eliminate Israel resulted in following wars with a renewed attempt to remove Israel, all of which were unsuccessful.
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Anwar Sadat, President of Egypt, was the first Arab Leader to recognize Israel.
Anwar Sadat.
Egypt (Anwar Sadat) in 1979 and Jordan (Hussein ibn Abdullah) in 1994.
Israel's first peace treaty with an Arab State was the Camp David Accords of 1979 between Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat. This was extremely unpopular in Egypt, where the citizens wanted a perpetual conflict with Israel, and would eventually result in Sadat's assassination in 1981.
Camp David.
Arab American Political Action Committee was created in 1998.
Egypt was the only Arab nation with a peace treaty with Israel in 1979 until Jordan in 1994. Sadat received no support for the peace treaty. US President Jimmy Carter invited the two parties to hold talks in the USA. The other Arab nations in the Middle East considered negotiations with Israel as a betrayal to the Palestinian problem. As a result, Egypt was kicked out of the Arab League for nearly a decade. Essentially, Muslim countries in the area including Iran consider Israel as their primary enemy. Egyptian President Sadat, who came into office after the demise of Nassar, was assassinated during a military parade soon after the treaty was signed. The assassination of Sadat was a direct response to his treaty with Israel. The treaty however remains intact.
United Arab States ended in 1961.
United Arab Republic ended in 1961.
Arab States Broadcasting Union was created in 1969.
Arab states
On May 15, 1948, the day after Israel's Declaration of Independence , five Arab Nations (Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan, Syria, and Iraq) declared war on Israel and they were assisted by armies sent from Saudi Arabia and Yemen. The Arab armies' inability to eliminate Israel resulted in following wars with a renewed attempt to remove Israel, all of which were unsuccessful.