Thirteen Days in September Quotes

“The British census of Palestine in 1922 recorded 84,000 Jews and 670,000 Arabs, of whom 71,000 were Christian, most of the remainder being Muslim.”
― Lawrence Wright, Thirteen Days in September: The Dramatic Story of the Struggle for Peace

“Begin claimed that Sadat’s visit to Jerusalem was merely a grand gesture, and that what Sadat really wanted was a Palestinian state and”
― Lawrence Wright, Thirteen Days in September: The Dramatic Story of the Struggle for Peace

“Americans already believed Carter was wasting too much time on the Middle East when there were more pressing problems at home. The country was experiencing double-digit inflation coupled with high unemployment and anemic growth—a confounding phenomenon tagged “stagflation.” As for the president’s job performance, the two dreaded lines on the graph finally crossed in the spring of 1978, with more Americans disapproving”
― Lawrence Wright, Thirteen Days in September: The Dramatic Story of the Struggle for Peace

“dark, with a mustache and a deep, resonant voice. In Kamel’s opinion, Sadat wore “eccentric clothes”—a dark gray suit, a red-checked waistcoat, and an especially notable pair of white leather shoes, quite an outfit for a man on the run. Sadat immediately understood how he could employ Kamel’s little “murder society,” as he called it. Shooting a handful of British soldiers”
― Lawrence Wright, Thirteen Days in September: The Dramatic Story of the Struggle for Peace

“The example of this poor, dark-skinned man who turned the empire upside-down made a deep impression on the young Sadat. “I began to imitate him,” he writes. “I took off all my clothes, covered myself from the waist down with an apron, made myself a spindle, and withdrew to a solitary nook on the roof of our house in Cairo.”
― Lawrence Wright, Thirteen Days in September: Carter, Begin, and Sadat at Camp David

“In 1931, when Anwar was twelve, Mahatma Gandhi passed through the Suez Canal on his way to London to negotiate the fate of India. The ship stopped in Port Said, whereupon Egyptian journalists besieged the ascetic leader. The correspondent for Al-Ahram marveled that Gandhi was wearing “nothing but a scrap of cloth worth five piasters, wire rim glasses worth three piasters”
― Lawrence Wright, Thirteen Days in September: Carter, Begin, and Sadat at Camp David

“Hatred is so much easier than reconciliation; no sacrifices or compromises are required.”
― Lawrence Wright, Thirteen Days in September: The Dramatic Story of the Struggle for Peace