Michael T. Flynn Quotes
Is there going to be a peace in the Middle East? Not in my lifetime.
Flynn, Michael T., and Michael Ledeen. The Field of Fight: How We Can Win the Global War Against Radical Islam and Its Allies. St. Martin's Press, 2016.
Clinton had been spending the greater part of his time trying to mediate the Arab-Israeli conflict.
With this statement, Sadat did what no Arab had ever dared to do—offer to negotiate with Israel. It led to the great peace breakthrough which produced the Arab-Israeli peace.
Israel had again been attacked by Arab armies and at the same time the parties were in peace negotiations. Some argued that there should be a cease fire while negotiations were ongoing, but Rabin explained that if the two did not go on simultaneously and independently, neither might go well.