The Arab-Israeli conflict, which began more than a hundred years ago and still continues, has disconcerted both policy makers and citizens; despite the best efforts of foreign leaders, only one substantial agreement has materialized during decades of negotiations: the 1979 Israeli-Egyptian peace treaty. Before attempting to understand a subject as complex as the Israeli-Egyptian peace treaty, Egyptian, knowledge of the historical context of the two countries involved is essential to understanding the motivations and aspirations of both parties, which will shed light on the peace treaty itself. Foreign policy cannot be considered in isolation; rather, each country should be seen as a nation with legitimate historical and political aspirations. Furthermore, when evaluating foreign policy, there are two methods of analysis: one is to focus on the results and documents produced by working backwards, deducing the intentions of different leaders from the final result ; the other method is to focus on the politics of decision-making, viewing foreign policy as the result of individual political goals. The first approach focuses on the primary sources, while the second focuses on the parties themselves. In this article, I will give a comprehensive history of Israeli-Egyptian relations and use both forms of analysis to infer what each side's goals were at the time of signing the treaty, and use the lens of hindsight to evaluate whether their objectives have been achieved. The dispute over the territory called Palestine began relatively recently. Palestinian Arabs had lived for centuries as poor peasants under continued corrupt Ottoman rule; political identification as a Palestinian within the broad current of Arab nationalism only...... middle of paper ......h before the creation of Israel. Although at the time Begin's entry into government was not a particularly notable development (since his promotion was ostensibly aimed at ensuring Israel's unity in the face of crisis), it was in fact a a very significant development that allowed Begin to re-enter mainstream politics. and got rid of its radical label. Yoram Peri, Between Battles and Polls: The Israeli Army in Politics (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986), p. 250 goes so far as to call Begin's appointment a "revolutionary change in Israeli political history." For a detailed timeline of the Six-Day War, see "Timeline of the Six-Day War (Chronology of the Arab-Israeli Six-Day War)". Zionism and Israel. Internet. February 27, 2011. For the relatively short text of the resolution, see Laqueur and Rubin, pp. 365-366. Tessler.. 420.