(Ha'aretz) Ze'ev Schiff - In his book, Crisis: The Anatomy of Two Major Foreign Policy Crises, Henry Kissinger divulges that Egyptian President Anwar Sadat made contact with the U.S. on the very first day of the Yom Kippur War in 1973 through a secret intelligence channel in a message titled, "Conditions for Stopping the War." Kissinger understood that Sadat was effectively inviting the U.S. to take control of the postwar peace process.
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