# Camp David Accords The **Camp David Accords** were the two framework agreements that [[Jimmy Carter]] brokered between Egypt's Anwar Sadat and Israel's Menachem Begin over thirteen days at the presidential retreat in Maryland, signed at the White House on **September 17, 1978**: a "Framework for Peace in the Middle East," which promised Palestinian autonomy in the West Bank and Gaza and was never carried out, and a "Framework for the Conclusion of a Peace Treaty between Egypt and Israel," which was. The Egypt–Israel treaty followed on **March 26, 1979** — the first peace between Israel and an Arab state — and returned the Sinai, taken in the [[Six-Day War]], to Egypt by 1982. Sadat and Begin shared the 1978 [[Nobel Peace Prize]]; Sadat was assassinated by Islamist officers on October 6, 1981, and [[Hosni Mubarak]] inherited the peace and the American money that came with it. ## What the Accords built - **The aid relationship.** In exchange for peace, [[Egypt]] became the second-largest recipient of American military aid, at roughly **$1.3 billion a year** in Foreign Military Financing since 1987, with Israel first. That standing subsidy — paid to a military that has governed Egypt under three presidents — is the structural foundation of Cairo's lobbying and influence operations in Washington and the reason the Egypt page sits in the vault's foreign-influence layer. - **The template.** Land for peace, American guarantees, and a Palestinian clause that could be signed and ignored: the [[Oslo Accords]] (1993) reused the autonomy framework, and the [[Abraham Accords]] (2020) dropped the Palestinian clause altogether. Begin, the [[Revisionist Zionism]] heir who had bombed the King David Hotel, was the proof that the Israeli right could make peace when the price was Sinai and not Judea and Samaria — a distinction that has governed Likud policy since. - **Carter's achievement and the right's use of it.** The Accords were the high point of the Carter presidency and the one part of it the American right has never attacked; the argument since 1979 has been over whether the Palestinian framework was a promise Israel broke or a fiction everyone understood. ## See Also - [[Egypt]] · [[Israel]] · [[Hosni Mubarak]] · [[Jimmy Carter]] - [[Six-Day War]] · [[Revisionist Zionism]] · [[Likud]] · [[Oslo Accords]] · [[Abraham Accords]] · [[Israeli History Hub]]