Editing Camp David Accords (section)

===Participating parties===
[[File:Six Day War Territories.svg|thumb|upright|right|Territory held by Israel: {{legend|#ffffd0|before the [[Six-Day War]]}} {{legend|#f7d3aa|after the war}}]]
Carter visited the heads of government on whom he would have to rely to make any peace agreement feasible. By the end of his first year (1977) in office, Carter had met with [[Anwar El Sadat]] of [[Egypt]], [[Hussein of Jordan]], [[Hafez al-Assad]] of [[Syria]], and [[Yitzhak Rabin]] of [[Israel]]. The new Israeli prime minister [[Menachem Begin]] however, taking over the office from Yitzhak Rabin in June 1977, specifically demanded that the [[PLO]] would be excluded from peace talks.<ref name=Filiu2014/> Despite the fact that Jordan’s King Hussein supported Sadat's peace initiative, Hussein refused to take part in the peace talks; Menachem Begin offered Jordan little to gain and Hussein also feared he would isolate Jordan from the Arab world and provoke Syria and the [[Palestine Liberation Organization|PLO]] if he engaged in the peace talks as well.<ref name=olp>{{cite web|url=http://countrystudies.us/jordan/19.htm|title=Jordan – The Camp David Accords|website=countrystudies.us}}</ref> Hafez al-Assad, who had no interest in negotiating peace with Israel,<ref name=ldmm>''The Middle East: ten years after Camp David'', William B. Quandt, p. 9</ref> also refused to come to the United States.