Thirteen Days in September
One more thing that: Ibid., p. 419.
“Today I will quit my job”: Ibid., pp. 419–20.
“Menachem, why did you?”: “Begin’s Legacy/Yehiel, It Ends Today,” Haaretz, Nov. 10, 2013.
From his window he: Hasten, I Shall Not Die!, p. 234.
“Okay, I’ll put you”: Interview with Yechiel Kadishai.
“How did you succeed”: Shilon, Menachem Begin, p. 313.
“With Carter leading the”: Kamel, The Camp David Accords, p. 290.
His obsession with minutiae: James Fallows, “The Passionless Presidency,” Atlantic, May 1, 1979.
Vance believed that was about: Vance, Hard Choices, p. 229.
“Sadat has sold Jerusalem”: Jeremy Pressman, “Explaining the Carter Administration’s Israeli-Palestinian Solution,” Diplomatic History 37, no. 5 (2013). Without the leverage that Egypt might have provided, Arafat was unable to achieve a treaty he could accept at the Clinton Camp David conference in 2000, although it’s unclear if an Egyptian presence could have made a difference.
Arafat proceeded to boycott: Seth Anziska, personal communication.
Sadat’s ambivalence: Interview with Jimmy Carter.
Sadat was negotiating mainly: Brzezinski, Power and Principle, p. 236.
“This will end in Begin’s”: Kamel, The Camp David Accords, p. 283.
No one in the Israeli: Interviews with Ziv Rubinovitz and Louise Fischer.
No one in the Israeli: Interview with Elyakim Rubinstein.
Begin’s main goal: Iris Berlatzky interview with Elyakim Rubinstein, Menachem Begin Archives.
“The Arabs cannot isolate Egypt”: Kenneth W. Stein, in Alterman, ed., Sadat and His Legacy, p. 36.
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Index
Page numbers in italics refer to illustrations.
Aaron, 3.1, 12.1, epl.1
ABC, prl.1, 3.1, epl.1
Abdeen Palace
Abdullah I, King of Jordan, prl.1, 3.1
Abraham, prl.1, prl.2, 4.1
Afghanistan, 1.1, 8.1
African Americans
Ai
Air Force, Egyptian, 1.1, 4.1, 5.1
Air Force, Israeli, 1.1, 5.1, 9.1, 10.1, 10.2, 11.1
Al-Ahram, prl.1, prl.2
Al-Aqsa Mosque, prl.1, 7.1
Alexander VI, Pope
Algeria
Ali, Muhammad
Aliens’ Jail
Allenby, Edmund
al-Qaeda, 2.1, epl.1
Altalena
Amalekites
American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC)
American University
Amir, Abd al-Hakim, 5.1, 5.2
Ammon of Mainz, Rabbi
Anders, Wladyslaw
Anders’ Army
anti-Semitism, prl.1, 9.1
in Arab countries
in Britain
Arabi, Nabil el-
Arab League
Arab revolt
Arabs
in occupied territories
Arafat, Yasser, prl.1, prl.2, 3.1, 3.2, epl.1, nts.1
autonomy talks boycotted by
Arendt, Hannah
Ark of the Covenant
Arnall, Ellis
Aspen Lodge, 1.1, 1.2, 3.1, 8.1, 8.1, 10.1, 13.1, 13.2
Atatürk, Kemal
Atherton, Alfred “Roy,”
Atlanta Hawks
/> Auschwitz
Austria
autonomy plan, prl.1, prl.2, 12.1
Avner, Yehuda, prl.1, prl.2, epl.1
Balaam
Balak, King
Banna, Hassan al-, 8.1, 8.2
Barak, Aharon, 4.1, 6.1, 7.1, 8.1, 9.1, 9.1, 12.1, 12.2, 13.1, epl.1, nts.1
background of
Baz’s meeting with
Carter’s request for talk with
integrity of
Jerusalem considered non-negotiable by
Bar-Levy line, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3
Barrein, Sitt el- (Umm Mohamed)
Bar-Zohar, Michael
Bathsheba
Baz, Farouk el-
Baz, Osama el-, 7.1, 9.1, 9.2, 13.1, epl.1
Barak’s meeting with
BBC
Begin, Aliza, 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 5.1, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 13.1, epl.1, epl.2
courtship of
death of
Begin, Benny
Begin, Chasia
Begin, Herzl
Begin, Menachem, prl.1, 4.1
Aliza courted by
in Altalena incident
appearance of
arrogance of, prl.1, prl.2
autonomy plan of, prl.1, prl.2, 12.1
Biblical admonition heeded by
British reward for
bullying resisted by
Carter’s post-Camp David visit to
childhood of, prl.1, prl.2
CIA’s profile of, prl.1, prl.2, prl.3, prl.4, prl.5
company of women enjoyed by
complaints of, about Jimmy Carter
death of
depression of, 4.1, epl.1
education of
election of, prl.1, 11.1
expanded Israel envisioned by, prl.1, prl.2, 9.1, 9.2
German reparations demanded by
at Gettysburg, 6.1, 6.2, 13.1, epl.1
on hatred
health of, 2.1, 2.2
heart attack of
Herut party of
Holocaust and, prl.1, prl.2, 4.1, 11.1
imprisonment of, prl.1, 6.1, nts.1
and invasion of Lebanon, prl.1, epl.1, epl.2
as Irgun head, prl.1, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 3.1, 6.1, 12.1
Jewish history studied by, prl.1, prl.2, epl.1
Joshua admired by
King David Hotel bombing and
March 11 terrorist attack and
1973 Egyptian military buildup concerns of