"No war without Egypt, no peace without Syria" (Henry Kissinger?)

[Barry Popik]

WAR WITHOUT EGYPT + PEACE WITHOUT--386 Google hits
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Does Fred have this modern Middle East proverb? Did Henry Kissinger say it?
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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/27/world/middleeast/27diplo.html?ref=world
Saudi Asks Israel to Abandon Barrier as a Gesture to Arabs
By HELENE COOPER
Published: September 27, 2007
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"You know the old saying," Prince Saud joked, "that there can be no
war without Egypt and no peace without Syria."
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(GOOGLE BOOKS)
Going All the Way: Christian Warlords, Israeli Adventurers, and the
War in ... - Page 294
by Jonathan C. Randal - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1984

As Kissinger once remarked, there could be no war without Egypt and no peace
without Syria. As Israeli doves had so accurately predicted, Assad, ...
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Report on Canada's Relations with the Countries of the Middle East and
North ... - Page 89
by George C. Van Roggen - Political Science - 1985 - 139 pages

Former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger is said to have observed that in
the Middle East, "There can be no war without Egypt, no peace without Syria. ...
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Beirut Outtakes: A TV Correspondent's Portrait of America's Encounter
with ... - Page 93
by Larry Pintak - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1988 - 347 pages

They seemed to have forgotten Henry Kissinger's Middle East maxim that there
is "no war without Egypt, no peace without Syria." Secretary of State George ...
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http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,946508,00.html
Searching for a Second-Stage Deal
Monday, Mar. 24, 1975
"The Arabs cannot make war without the Egyptians, and they cannot make
peace without the Palestinians."


That assessment, by a longtime confidant of Egyptian President Anwar
Sadat's, seemed to describe the complex problem facing U.S. Secretary
of State Henry Kissinger last week as he stepped up the tempo of his
shuttle diplomacy in quest of a second-stage disengagement agreement.

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