1 drawing. | Cartoon shows Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin examining a huge knot, labeled "Gordian Knot." Begin plucks at strands labeled "Israel's Security," while Sadat fingers strands labeled "Palestinian Self-Determination." According to legend, the Gordian knot was an intricate knot in a chariot thong that could only be untied by the person destined to be the master of Asia. Confronted with the knot, Alexander the Great solved the problem by cutting it with one stroke of his sword. In 1972, Sadat and Begin took...