In a paper consisting of ten pages Sadat's leadership positions are examined in an argument that perhaps he became too distanced from his people as a result of his risky decisions. Five sources are cited in the bibliography.
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a man who tried to bring peace to a region that is wrought with religiously violent tensions, a reality we know all too well today. As the leader of Egypt
he felt it was his duty to bring some sense of peace to a region filled with hatred concerning Islams, Christians, and Jews. He was an incredibly remarkable man who
was visionary and perhaps ahead of his times in his pursuit of peace in a region filled with hatred and anger. In the following paper we examine the life and
work of Sadat, illustrating that he was a true leader, a rare leader, and a man ahead of his times, for the people were not ready for such peace, nor
are they now. Anwar Sadat "Sadat enhanced his popularity by displaying and following an intuitive sense of what the masses wanted. He was doing what they wanted when
he cut back the powers of the hated secret police, when he ousted the Soviet military experts and when he prepared for war with Israel -- even though Golda Meir,
Israels shrewd prime minister when he took office, correctly appraised him, she later wrote, as a reasonable man who might soberly consider the benefits of ending the confrontation with Israel."1
It was early in the year 1973 when Anwar Sadat chose to go to war against Israel. At that point "he was being criticized by students and others
as an ineffective leader. He concluded that it was necessary to break the Egyptian-Israeli deadlock."2 He argued that if Egypt did not take matters into their own hands, nothing would
change, no advancements would be achieved. "The time has come for a shock. The resumption of the battle is now inevitable."3 Moscow had "approved a limited invasion of Sinai