ABSTRACT
In planning the road ahead, which was to take him to Jerusalem and to the Knesset, though there is no indication that he had already mapped out precisely his revolutionary initiative, Anwar Sadat tried to win legitimacy in the Arab nationalist camp, while distancing himself from the Soviet Union. He apparently thought that his hope of breaking or weakening the bonds between Israel and the United States were demolished when 76 US senators signed a petition to the President urging him not to take steps likely to weaken Israel and not to cease arms supplies to Israel.
