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صفحة: 119
A First Peace Treaty Is Signed On March 26 , 1979 , with the help of American president Jimmy Carter , Israeli prime minister Menah . em Begin and Egyptian president Anwar Sadat signed a peace treaty . Based on that treaty , Israel gave back the entire Sinai Desert in return for peace with Egypt . Egypt and Israel hoped that other Arab countries would want to make peace , too , but instead they were angry with Egypt . The Palestine Liberation Organization , or PLO , which was the leading representative of the Palestinian people , refused to participate in peace talks , and , from its bases in Lebanon ( Israel’s northern neighbor ) , the PLO engaged in terrorist attacks on Israel . In 1978 , Menah . em Begin and Anwar Sadat were awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace for their efforts to end the Israeli-Arab conflict .
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