Visual guide: Support for Egypt–Israel peace. Congressional Research Service (CRS), Library of Congress and the linked official records supply the evidence below. This diagram is not a photograph, chronology of legal effect or measure of success.
Context & scope
Egypt and Israel are the treaty parties. U.S. mediation and support involved Carter’s administration and Congress; the durable outcome is not assigned solely to one president. Camp David 1978 details are not independently established by this bundle. Historical peace treaty maintained as of the July 2022 source vintage; no independent October 2026 current-status claim.
Goal
Support peace between Egypt and Israel and sustain regional security cooperation.
The United States acted as peace broker and the Carter administration made military and economic assistance commitments in documents accompanying the 1979 Egypt–Israel Peace Treaty, subject to congressional approval.
The bilateral peace treaty existed in 1979 and Egypt had maintained it since then, as reported in the July 2022 CRS original. This is evidence of a sustained bilateral peace arrangement, not proof of comprehensive Middle East peace.
Sustaining the arrangement involved continuing U.S. foreign assistance and security cooperation. The United States is not a legal party to the bilateral treaty, and the treaty itself contains no U.S. aid obligations. People-to-people relations remained limited in the 2022 source.
United States Congress; U.S. Government Publishing Office, Statutes at Large
Source date
1979-07-20
Document type
contemporaneous primary U.S. statute; first page visually checked against scan
Reading location
Section 2(a), 93 Stat.89; treaty date visually checked against scanned page ; Section 2(b), 93 Stat.89; ratification observed by July20 1979, not exact date