Straits of Tiran, 9.1, 12.1
Suez Canal, prl.1, 4.1, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1, 8.1, 9.1, 9.2, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4, 11.1, 12.1, epl.1
Suez Crisis, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 9.1, 9.2, 10.1
Syria, 1.1, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, epl.1
Egypt’s defense pact with
in Israel’s War of Independence
in 1973 War, 10.1, 10.2
in Six-Day War
Talmud
Tamir, Avraham
Tel Aviv, Israel
bombing in Independence War
Temple Mount, prl.1, prl.2, 5.1, 7.1, 8.1
Ten Commandments
Teresa, Mother
“Thousand and One Nights, A,” 2.1, 6.1
threat level
Time, prl.1, prl.2, 10.1, nts.1
Tohamy, Hassan el-, 1.1, 3.1, 5.1, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3
Dayan’s anger at
Dayan’s meeting with, 1.1, nts.1
distracted from negotiations
as formidable
spiritualism of, 1.1, 5.1, 8.1
Transjordan
see also Jordan
Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons
Tripartite Aggression, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 9.1, 9.2, 10.1
Tristan und Isolde (opera),
Truman, Harry
Turkey, 2.1, 4.1, 5.1
Turkish Revolution
Twain, Mark
United Nations, prl.1, 2.1, 3.1, 4.1, 5.1, 5.2, 8.1, epl.1
United Nations General Assembly
United Nations Security Council, 10.1, 10.2, 13.1
United Nations Security Council Resolution 12.1, prl.1, prl.2, prl.3, prl.4, 1.1, 3.1, 5.1, 6.1, 8.1, 9.1, 11.1, 13.1, epl.1
as ambiguous
in Camp David treaty, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, epl.1
United States
Camp David proposals of, prl.1, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 11.1
China’s relationship with
deficit in
Egyptian aid of
Israel’s side in War of Attrition supported by
Meir’s request of arms from
oil embargo to
in proposed defense treaty with Israel
rumors of involvement in Six-Day War
stagflation in, 1.1, epl.1
in Suez Crisis
Upper Galilee
Ur
Uriah the Hittite
Ury, William, n
Valley of Elah
Vance, Cyrus, 2.1, 2.2, 4.1, 4.2, 6.1, 8.1, 8.2, 10.1, 11.1, 11.2, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 12.4, 13.1, nts.1
agreement signed by
background of
at Baz and Barak’s meeting
Brzezinski’s rivalry with, 1.1, 4.1, epl.1
Camp David summit doubts of
collusion with Sadat as viewed by
Dayan and Weizman’s resignation threat to
Egypt trip of
Fisher’s advice to, 5.1, 9.1
Jerusalem compromise suggested by
at peace treaty signing
Sadat’s plan and
U.S. Camp David plan announced by
U.S. Camp David plan written by, 5.1, 5.2
Vance, Gay
Veliotes, Nicholas
Vichy France
Vietnam
Vietnam War, 5.1, 10.1
Virgil
Wailing Wall
Wallace, George
Walters, Barbara, 3.1, 3.2
War of Attrition, atn.1, 9.1, nts.1
War of Independence, Israeli, prl.1, 3.1, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 8.1, 9.1, epl.1
Watergate, 10.1, 10.2
Weizman, Ezer, prl.1, prl.2, prl.3, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 3.1, 5.1, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 7.1, 8.1, 9.1, epl.1, nts.1
Begin vs., 11.1, 11.2, 11.3
Carter defended by
Dayan’s rivalry with
demilitarization negotiated by
increasingly pacifist views of
Israeli air force created by, 1.1, 3.1
resignation of
resignation threatened by
Sadat-Dayan meeting desired by
Sadat’s closeness to
Sadat’s plan and, 3.1, 3.2
in Six-Day War, 5.1, 5.2
U.S. Framework and
U.S. position and
Weizman, Shaul, 11.1, epl.1
Weizmann, Chaim, 1.1, 11.1
Weizmann, Moshe
West Bank, prl.1, prl.2, prl.3, prl.4, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 5.1, 10.1, 11.1, epl.1, epl.2, epl.3
Begin’s promise on treatment of, 3.1, epl.1
in Camp David discussions, 1.1, 3.1, 3.2, 5.1, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 9.1, 11.1, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 12.4, 12.5, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 13.4, nts.1
Carters’ tour of, prl.1, prl.2
free movement from
Israel’s capture of, prl.1, prl.2, prl.3, prl.4, prl.5, prl.6, 5.1, 7.1, 9.1
Israel’s 1956 plan for annexation of
Jordan’s control of
new settlements in, prl.1, epl.1
Transjordan’s desired annexation of
West Beirut, Israeli invasion of
Western Wall
West Germany
White Citizens’ Council
White Nights (Begin),
Wilson, Woodrow
World War I, prl.1, prl.2
World War II, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 4.1, 5.1, 6.1, 9.1
Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial
Year of Decision
Yemen, prl.1, 5.1, 8.1
Yom Kippur, 3.1, 10.1
Yom Kippur War, see 1973 War
Yost, Charles, 13.1, 13.2
Zahran
Zawahiri, Ayman al-
Zionism
Zionist Congress
Zukerman, Pinchas
Photographic Credits
Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following for permission to reprint photographs:
Gerald Rafshoon, personal collection: frontispiece, 2.1, 2.2, 4.1, 4.3, 5.1, 6.1, 7.1, 8.1, 9.1, 10.1, 11.1, 12.1, 13.1, 13.2
Bettmann / Corbis: prl.1
Courtesy of the Jimmy Carter Library: prl.2, 3.1, 3.2
The Menachem Begin Heritage Center: prl.4, 4.2
Milner Moshe, Israeli Government Press Office: prl.3, 1.1
A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Lawrence Wright is a staff writer for The New Yorker, and the author of one novel, God’s Favorite, and six previous books of nonfiction, including In the New World; Saints and Sinners; Remembering Satan; The Looming Tower, which was the recipient of many honors; and Going Clear. He is also a screenwriter and a playwright. He and his wife are longtime residents of Austin, Texas.
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Saints and Sinners
In the New World
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