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He certainly was ahead of his peers. But it was the it was the Egyptian Islamists that Nasser had jailed and he had freed and thought he had won over who gunned him down. As I was writing this, I realized for the first time that Sadat's assassination at one level was a kind of foreshadowing of Yitzhak Rabin's, both killed by extremists that they hoped they were bringing around to their point of view.

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