Content note: Syrian state radio calls the Camp David Accords 'treasonous' and Sadat's policy 'capitulationist'. This object is shown as it was published. Why
FBIS Daily Report: Damascus Domestic Service on the 'treasonous Camp David agreements' (28 Sep 1978)
Syria section of the FBIS report for 28 September 1978, ten days after the Camp David Accords were signed. Damascus Domestic Service reports a defence-minister speech that calls Egypt's course 'capitulationist' and Sadat's act 'joining the enemy ranks', and a news item that refers to 'the treasonous Camp David agreements' and says Egyptian security organs arrested 'patriotic and progressive elements'. The loaded labels are placed in news reporting as well as in the minister's speech.
- Date
- September 27, 1978
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- Damascus Domestic Service (Syrian state radio), as translated by the U.S. Foreign Broadcast Information Service
- Country
- Syria
- Medium
- Broadcast
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Ba Athist Syria
- Leader
- Hafez al Assad
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Event
- Camp David Accords
- Techniques
- Name-calling
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Internet Archive (US Government Documents, FBIS microfiche collection), retrieved October 2, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work)
FBIS (U.S. federal agency) Daily Report, 28 September 1978; Internet Archive item micro_IA1176908_0188, US Government Documents collection; item page states no copyright or restriction. Text is FBIS's translation.
Text on the object
V. 28 Sep 78 S Y R I A H 1 DEFENSE MINISTER ADDRESSES GRADUATING OFFICERS JN272106Y Damascus Domestic Service in Arabic 1915 GMT 27 Sep 78 JN [Excerpt] Under the patronage of His Excellency President Hafiz al-Asad, commander in chief of the army and the armed forces, a graduation ceremony of war officers of the class of martyr Maj Gen 'Umar al-Abrash took place in Homs today, President al-Asad deputized Gen Mustafa Talas, deputy commander in chief and minister of defense, to attend the ceremony. General Talas delivered a speech on the occasion, in which he stressed the importance of adding a new group of officers to our steadfast armed forces to enable it to carry out its heroic role in the service of the sacred cause. General Talas pointed out the capitulationist steps which the president of the Egyptian regime has been pursuing until now. Talas said that As-Sadat's joining the enemy ranks increases our determination to make up for what the enemy would have allotted to the western front. [...] DAMASCUS REPORTS ARRESTS IN EGYPT, ANTIAGREEMENT LEAFLETS JN271328Y Damascus Domestic Service in Arabic 0415 GMT 27 Sep 78 JN [Excerpt] Last Saturday, the very same day that As-Sadat returned to Cairo after signing the treasonous Camp David agreements, Egyptian security organs arrested many patriotic and progressive elements. Some 40 persons have been arrested, including 'Abd al-Hamid ash-Shaykh, member of the secretariat of the National Progressive Unionist Grouping Party; engineer Subhi Labib; Shawki al-Kurdi; poet Mastafa Zaki and several trade unionists in Hulwan.
Already an English translation by FBIS from the Persian broadcast. No further translation made.
Read from the committed page image. The rest of the minister's speech and the remainder of the page (a SANA item on President al-Asad's visit to the GDR) are not given. Nothing was reworded; [...] marks the omission.
