The Camp David Accords: A Revisit in 2022

Abstract

This year is the Forty-Fourth year of the Camp David Accords, signed by the President of Egypt and the Prime Minister of Israel on September 17, 1978, an event of great historical importance in the modern Middle East. These agreements, which resulted from the negotiations conducted over some eighteen months, eventually resulted in the signing of a formal treaty of peace between Egypt and Israel on March 19, 1979. As a result, the strategic map of the Middle East was fundamentally altered. The Accords were also a tribute to the negotiating skills of the then US President Jimmy Carter who was almost singularly responsible for the agreement that was reached at Camp David, Washington, in September 1978. This article seeks to analyse the reasons behind the success of this seminal summit in Israel-Palestine peace-building. It argues that President Carter’s role was super-essential to the success of the Camp David Accords.