Word: aqaba
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...work by 5:40 a.m. A few minutes after 6, Sadat was stirring, and before long Begin was contemplating a sunrise over Washington from the ninth floor of the Washington Hilton. Both Sadat and Begin had scheduled final meetings with Carter that morning. First, Begin wanted the Gulf of Aqaba to be referred to as Eilat after the city that lies at its head. That solution was easy. Eilat was inserted in parentheses after the mention of Aqaba in the notes accompanying the treaty. But Begin's insistence that the West Bank, so crucial in the coming negotiations...
...military forces and settlers from all of the Sinai. Most of the area will be demilitarized; Egypt can station only a single division on the peninsula and only within 31 miles of the Suez Canal and Gulf of Suez. The U.N. will station troops along the Gulf of Aqaba and the eastern border of the Sinai. Within a nearly two-mile-wide strip on the other side of the line, Israeli forces will be limited to four battalions. The two airfields that Israel built in the Sinai will be restricted to Egyptian civilian...
...After convincing the U.N. that it should withdraw its force from the Sinai, Egypt blockades the Gulf of Aqaba, closing a key Israeli shipping route, and moves its troops to the Israeli border...
Then came eleven years of Israeli occupation, and the desert began to bloom. The Israelis settled 4,500 people there, primarily in the towns of Yamit and Ofi-ra and in 15 agricultural communities. They grew vegetables in Rafah and built resorts on the Gulf of Aqaba. They spent $150 million on civilian enterprises and $2 billion on military installations, including two big new airfields, two old ones, three early warning stations and about 1,000 miles of roads. Jerusalem continued to develop the Sinai even after the disengagement agreements of 1974 and 1975, under which the Israelis pulled back...
...October War and returned to invest $17,000 in a seaside restaurant. Now Shmuel hopes bravely that "the people who brought me here will take care of me." But in the barren, hard-baked south, between a range of sawtooth mountains and the clearwater, coral-reefed Gulf of Aqaba, the government retained ownership of the land. In Ofira (pop. 1,000), residents enjoy subsidized rents that average $40 a month along with more generous income tax deductions than other Israelis receive. Evacuation ought to be financially easier for many southerners, but they are as bitter about it as Israelis...