“I think we have an agreement, but I`m not quite sure about the colonies,” Vance replied. Although the agreements were a historic agreement between two parties, often at odds, and Sadat and Begin shared the 1978 Nobel Peace Prize in recognition of this achievement (Jimmy Carter would win in 2002″for his decades of tireless efforts to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts), their overall importance is controversial because the region is still mired in conflict. The agreements were another interim agreement or a new stage, but negotiations resulting from the agreements have slowed down for several reasons. These included the inability to involve Jordanians in the talks; The colonial controversy; indecision of future discussions on autonomy; domestic opposition, carried by both Begin and Sadat and, in Sadat`s case, by the ostracism and anger of the Arab world; the emergence of a cold peace between Egypt and Israel; Changes in foreign policy priorities, including the discontinuity of staff engaged in maintaining the negotiation process. [18] Over the years, some of the Americans who participated in the Camp David talks have changed their minds that it was Bégin who had the best negotiations. Instead, they say that Israel has missed an opportunity to settle disputes that are only becoming much more complicated. From Carter`s perspective, Camp David gave Israel the chance to resolve the issue of the West Bank, where there were only 5,000 or 10,000 Israeli settlers, compared to about 200,000 today; when there has been no intifada, suicide bombings or Hamas. If Bégin had been more flexible and accepted ideas that Israel now accepts, such as the inevitable of a Palestinian state, it would undoubtedly have been easier to reach a comprehensive peace agreement in the late 1970s, Carter said. The agreement also led the United States to commit to multi-billion dollar annual subsidies to the Israeli and Egyptian governments, subsidies that continue to this day and are provided as a mixture of subsidies and assistance measures for the purchase of U.S. equipment. From 1979 (the year of the peace agreement) to 1997, Egypt received $1.3 billion a year in military aid, which helped modernize the Egyptian army. [24] (This goes beyond economic, humanitarian and other aid, which amounts to more than $25 billion). Egypt, delivered to the east until 1979, received American weapons such as the M1A1 Abrams Tank, the artillery ship APACHE AH-64 and the F-16 fighter aircraft.