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Syrian interests at a proposed confer-
ence.
Always impatient and a master of
surprise, Sadat went to Jerusalem to
refocus Washington's attention on
Egypt. His craving to recapture the
personal spotlight was achieved. Sadat
went to Jerusalem hoping that Begin
would respond with an equally pro-
found gesture: a full and immediate
withdrawal from Sinai. Not so.

HE WROTE
CHUTZPAH.
HE DEFENDS
WITH CHUTZPAH.
ON NOVEMBER 19m,
HE BRINGS HIS CHUTZPAH TO
THE BIRMINGHAM TEMPLE.

ALAN DERSHOWITZ

Wednesday, November 19, 1997, 8:00 p.m.
Book signing will follow.
Admission $25 per person, members;
$35 per person, non-members.

Menachem Begin negotiated intensively
for peace.

Instead, with Carter as the catalyst,
Begin negotiated Palestinian autono-:
my and an Israeli-Egyptian peace
• treaty. A separate peace was not
Sadat's original objective, but the
price he paid for obtaining Sinai's
return. So Sadat made a warm peace
with Washington; the cold one, he
left for Israel.
Sadat's advisers opposed his aban-
donment of the Palestinian issue; for
the next two decades Cairo reestab-
lished its credibility in the Arab world
by reasserting paternity for
Palestinian aspirations.
In going to Jerusalem, Sadat
obtained for Egypt military and
financial assistance from Washington.
He ingratiated himself with the
American people and presidents and
changed America's one-sided policy
tilt toward Israel.
He also unleashed three significant
co precedents: measured resolution of
the Arab-Israeli conflict through
negotiations, the recognition though
slow acceptance of Israel's sovereignty
and political independence, and a
challenge to Washington to facilitate,
mediate, and guarantee diplomatic
outcomes. ❑

Alan Dershowitz, distinguished professor of the Harvard Law School,
controversial writer and public figure, provocative commentator on Jewish life,
author of Chutzpah, will discuss his vision for the American Jewish future,
as first presented in his new book, The Vanishing American Jew.

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