Camp David Accords

The Camp David Accords were a pair of political agreements signed by Egyptian president Anwar Sadat and Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin on 17 September 1978, following twelve days of secret negotiations at Camp David, the U.S. presidential retreat in Maryland, and witnessed by President Jimmy Carter. The second framework, A Framework for the Conclusion of a Peace Treaty between Egypt and Israel, led directly to the 1979 Egypt-Israel peace treaty, for which Sadat and Begin received the shared 1978 Nobel Peace Prize; the first framework, dealing with the Palestinian territories, was written without Palestinian participation and was condemned by the United Nations. The agreement sparked broad discontent across much of the Arab world as a unilateral peace initiative that neglected the establishment of a Palestinian state.