Word: arish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Israeli Premier Menachem Begin found his host somewhat absorbed in his foundering relations with other Arab nations. But after a day of cordial talks, the two leaders were able to announce the next steps in the peace process. On May 26, Israel will return the Sinai town of El Arish to Egyptian sovereignty. On the following day Sadat and Begin will fly together from El Arish to Beersheba in the Israeli Negev desert for further discussions...
...leaders also confirmed some other matters that had been largely settled in Washington last month. A direct telephone hot line will be set up immediately between Cairo and Jerusalem, and after the El Arish meeting next month, air links will be established between the two countries...
Sinai. Israel this week will submit to Egypt a detailed timetable for the initial withdrawal of its forces from the Sinai Peninsula. Israeli troops will pull back until, nine months after the signing of the treaty, they are all positioned east of a line running from El Arish to Ras Muhammad, the southernmost tip of the Sinai. Over a three year period, Israel will remove its 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...
Egyptian-Israeli Relations. One month after the Israeli forces have moved behind the El Arish-Ras Muhammad line, both countries will exchange ambassadors and establish normal diplomatic relations. Egypt will end its economic boycott of Israel and grant Israeli ships and cargoes the right of passage through the Suez Canal. Israel will be permitted to buy oil from the Sinai fields that will be returned to Egypt. If Israel runs short of oil during the next 15 years, the U.S. has promised to make up the difference. Egypt and Israel will open their borders to each other's citizens...
...arrowhead-shaped peninsula (twice the size of Belgium) was pretty much a forgotten wasteland. As late as 1967, its population was only about 50,000, including 10,000 Bedouins and perhaps 40,000 Palestinians and Egyptians who lived in the town of El Arish near the Israeli border. The Egyptians, who have had a somewhat vaguely defined sovereignty over the area since 1906, developed some oilfields in the Sinai, but for the most part they preferred to preserve it as a buffer zone between themselves and the Israelis. To the Egyptian peasants, the region seemed a scorched, treeless moon scape...