Tensions in the Middle East were hot, with pressure coming in from the United States and the United Nations to resolve the dispute over the Sinai Peninsula, a large piece of land located between the two countries. Thus, a solution was given, The Sinai Interim Agreement. This was a diplomatic agreement stating that the conflicts between Israel and Egypt “shall not be resolved by military force but by peaceful means.”
On this day September 4th, in 1975, Israeli and Egyptian diplomats met in Geneva and signed The Sinai Interim Agreement. The agreement stipulated that Israeli withdrawal from Sinai, which had been under Israeli control since 1967, and establish a UN buffer zone between the two countries.
By signing this agreement, Egypt strengthened ties with the Western world and with Israel. This agreement brought the two countries one step closer to the famous 1979 Egypt-Israel Peace Treaty. Israel and Egypt are exemplary to the rest of the Middle East, as these two countries have maintained peace without warfare since the 1975 agreement.