Hi and welcome to Sabey Reasons malicious life I'm Ren Levy Two weeks ago in a previous episode of our podcast we told you about the Yom Kippur War of

1973, a dangerous and traumatic war that left a deep scar in the collective memories of the Israelis who lived through it.

The southern front of that war in the Sinai Peninsula was where some of the fiercest

and bloodiest battles took place between the Israeli forces and the powerful

Egyptian second and third armies.

The echoes of these bloody battles were still fresh in the minds of many Israelis when on

September 17th, 1978, the Presidents of Israel, Egypt, and the United States stood together

on the same stage.

On one side, Menachim Begging, a far-right ideologue who throughout his entire political career

led a hockish and uncompromising line against Israel's enemies.

On the other side, Anwar Sadat, the actual mastermind behind the

Yom Kippur War. Now, in a moment you couldn't have imagined these mortal enemies were shaking hands. Then they gave each other a bare hug.

Few peace talks have ever gone so well. It was a crowning achievement for everyone involved.

But it was a lie.

During that three-way handshake in 1978, there was something that Carter and

likely begging new, but Sadat and all the rest of us did not. The two sides were spying on the third.

Every time Sadat cabled Cairo using his own secret state-of-the-art equipment, the Americans

were listening in using a priceless communications hack. Each time Sadat entered

into negotiations, his adversaries were one step ahead.

The Camp David Accords were so incredibly successful, not necessarily because ideologues became magnonymous, or world peace was on the horizon.

It's because Egypt was fooled, and they had no clue.

America had used the same trick years.

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