FINAL WARNING: The Shining Star
to get Prime Minister Menachem Begin (Israel) and Anwar Sadat
(Egypt) together to sign the Camp David Peace Accord, which led to
the return of the Sinai to Egypt, and full recognition of Israel by Egypt,
including the establishment of embassies and trade relations.On November 5, 1978, the 21-nation Arab League met in Baghdad and
established a $3.5 billion war fund “to continue the armed
confrontation with the Jewish State”; and in 1980, a 37-nation Islamic
Summit called for a ‘Holy War’ to liberate all Arab land, including
Jerusalem, to establish an independent Palestinian state, with an Arab
Jerusalem as its capital. The proposal was rejected by Egypt because
of their commitment to the Peace Accord.During 1980-81, Israel passed two key laws that changed the nature of
the Middle East conflict: they named Jerusalem, including East
Jerusalem and the Old City (captured from Jordan in 1967) as Israel’s
Eternal Capital (although most of the world still maintains embassies
in Tel Aviv); and annexed the Golan Heights (captured from Syria in
1967).In June, 1982, while responding to a PLO attack from a terrorist base in
southern Lebanon, Israeli Intelligence discovered that Russia had
enough arms and foodstuffs in huge caves under the town of Sidon to
supply a million-man army, including uniforms, assault rifles,
ammunition, shells, missiles, and tanks. They found two huge digging
machines that were used to dig the underground fortress. The smaller
one of the two was able to dig a hole 30 feet wide, 24 feet high, and 60
feet deep, in eight hours. They were part of a six-machine shipment to
Austria by a U.S. manufacturer. The whereabouts of the other four
were not known. The shocking implication of that discovery, was that
the shelf life of the K-rations (meal packets) were only six months,
which led many to believe the Israel thwarted a Russian invasion of
Israel that was planned for the fall of 1982.After an eight-year long war with Iran, in 1988, Saddam Hussein, in a
bid to become the preeminent leader of the Arab world, offered to put
his military at the disposal of the Palestinian effort. Iraq had been a
partner in most of Arab attacks on Israel, and during the Persian Gulf
War, Hussein threatened to “burn half of Israel.” However, in 1989,
Yasser Arafat showed his willingness to seek a solution to the Mid-