What is Egypt–Israel peace treaty?
[[File:Flickr - Government Press Office (GPO) - THE TRIPLE HANDSHAKE IN THE PEACE TREATY SIGNING BETWEEN ISRAEL AND EGYPT.jpg|thumb|189x189px|From left to right: [[Anwar Sadat]], [[Jimmy Carter]], and [[Menachem Begin]] shake hands after signing the treaty]] The '''Egypt–Israel peace treaty''' was a [[peace treaty]] between [[Egypt]] and [[Israel]]. It was signed by both countries in 1979, at the end of the [[Camp David Accords]]. It was the first treaty between a Middle-Eastern Arab nation and Israel. After signing it, Egypt was removed from the [[Arab League]]. The Egypt–Israel treaty was signed by [[President of Egypt|Egyptian president]] [[Anwar Sadat]] and [[Prime Minister of Israel|Israeli prime minister]] [[Menachem Begin]], and witnessed by [[United States president]] [[Jimmy Carter]].<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Vance |first1=Cyrus R. |last2=Dayan |first2=M. |title=The Egyptian-Israeli Peace Treaty |journal=Middle East Journal |date=1979 |volume=33 |issue=3 |pages=327–347 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/4325878 |issn=0026-3141}}</ref> == Background == === The Arab-Israeli War of 1948 === In 1947, the [[United Nations]] announced the [[United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine|Partition Plan for Palestine]], which planned to divide [[British Mandate of Palestine|Mandatory Palestine]] into different parts for Arabs and Jews.<ref>{{Cite magazine|date=2014-09-29|title=What was Mandatory Palestine? And why does it matter?|url=https://time.com/3445003/mandatory-palestine/|access-date=2023-05-14|magazine=Time|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite report |author= United Nations|author-link= |date=1947 |title=United Nations Special Committee on Palestine. Volume 1 : report to the General Assembly, 1947 |url=https://digitallibrary.un.org/record/703295|publisher=United Nations|access-date= 2023-05-14|language=en}}</ref> Many people were unhappy with this solution, and so a civil war broke out between the different religious communities.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Milestones: 1945–1952 - Office of the Historian|url=https://