Book contents
- The Long Search for Peace
- The Official History of Australian Peacekeeping, Humanitarian and Post–Cold War Operations
- The Long Search for Peace
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Maps
- Preface
- Glossary
- Part 1 Actor and observer
- Part 2 New ambitions
- Part 3 Carrying on
- 29 A sustained commitment
- 30 Uprisings and wars
- 31 Service in the Sinai
- 32 In the midst of war
- Conclusion
- Book part
- Bibliography
- Index
- Plate Section (PDF Only)
31 - Service in the Sinai
Australia and the MFO, 1993–2006
from Part 3 - Carrying on
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 September 2019
- The Long Search for Peace
- The Official History of Australian Peacekeeping, Humanitarian and Post–Cold War Operations
- The Long Search for Peace
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Maps
- Preface
- Glossary
- Part 1 Actor and observer
- Part 2 New ambitions
- Part 3 Carrying on
- 29 A sustained commitment
- 30 Uprisings and wars
- 31 Service in the Sinai
- 32 In the midst of war
- Conclusion
- Book part
- Bibliography
- Index
- Plate Section (PDF Only)
Summary
By 1992, when Australia was asked to recommit to the US-led peacekeeping force – the Multinational Force and Observers (MFO) – more than a decade had elapsed since Israel’s withdrawal from the Sinai Peninsula, marking the transfer of the Sinai back to Egypt and the start of the MFO’s operations. Peace, a shaky proposition in the region – and absent on Israel’s other borders – had held. Mostly, as an Australian diplomat recognised, this was because of the ‘political will’ that Egypt and Israel, encouraged by US leadership, displayed in maintaining the underlying aims of the 1978 Camp David accords and the subsequent 1979 Treaty of Peace. But the MFO also played a role.
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- The Long Search for PeaceObserver Missions and Beyond, 1947–2006, pp. 779 - 813Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019