The Peace Treaty That Killed the Man Who Signed It - March 26, 1979

On March 26, 1979, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin signed the first Arab-Israeli peace treaty on the White House lawn, and the Arab world never forgave Sadat for it. Two years and six months later, he was assassinated by members of Egyptian Islamic Jihad. In this episode, we examine what the Egypt-Israel Peace Treaty actually achieved, what it left behind, and what it tells us about the price of moral courage when the peace you can make is not the peace everyone needed.