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In the 1978 Camp David Accords Israel promised Egypt to allow Palestinian self-rule in West Bank & Gaza: "the Israeli military government and its civilian administration will be withdrawn as soon as a self-governing authority has been freely elected." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_David_Accords?wprov=sfla1
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People of my generation were led to believe this promise was born in Madrid 12 years later or in Oslo and on the White House lawn in 1993. But it was Egypt's condition for ending the state of war.