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The Sinai Accords and Henry Kissinger

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in his step-by-step process aptly named "shuttle diplomacy" between the two countries. Kissinger spent over three years intervening between Egypt and Israel eventually finding concessions which resulted in Israels occupying  army withdrawing from parts of the Egyptian Sinai. Kissinger did not want an American presence in the Sinai but eventually both sides agreed to Sinai II only if there was  an American civilian presence and American funding for an Egyptian surveillance station to match the Israeli surveillance station on either side of the buffer zone. After Kissingers retirement in 1977,  progress in the Middle East seemed to stall and negotiations were taken up by President Carter in 1978 with the development of the Camp David Accords. While Kissingers peace keeping  efforts were applauded, several issues within the Middle East remained untouched including the U.S. non-recognition of Palestine despite its acceptance by the UN. This caused a great deal of additional  tension in the area as many of the Arab nations preferred negotiations through the UN and not those initiated by the U.S. Conflicts still continue in the Middle East despite  various peace accords over the years and Kissinger himself once commented that the area must find "some solution which balances the Arab need for self-esteem with Israeli security. Im not  sure it exists". Background Since the division of Palestine in 1947 and the creation of the new state of Israel in 1948 which  included Resolution 194 in the United Nations, the region has remained unstable in the ongoing Arab-Israeli conflict. Resolution 194 affirmed the rights of the Palestinian refugees from the 1947-1948 war  were to return to their homes and receive compensation for their losses and Israels conditions on joining the UN the following year were based that they accepted earlier resolutions including