Word: arish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first step a plan for reopening the Suez Canal-now clogged by silt and disabled ships-after nearly four years of inactivity. Under the Sadat plan, Israeli troops would pull back from their Bar-Lev Line on the canal bank to a line in the vicinity of El Arish, a sleepy Sinai town 50 miles from Israel's 1967 border. Egyptian troops would cross the canal to take up positions and "assume national responsibility." After repairs, the canal would be open to the world's ships, including those flying the blue six-pointed Star of David...
SINAI: To the line from El Arish near the Mediterranean to Sharm el Sheikh at the juncture of the Gulf of Aqaba and the Red Sea. Israel would insist on a presence at Sharm el Sheikh, where it is developing a sizable community, to protect passage to Eilat. Defense Minister Moshe Dayan will fight for mutual withdrawal of both Israel and Egypt from the banks of the Suez Canal. Should the Israelis consent to a unilateral withdrawal of ten to twelve miles from the canal, however, they may insist on a proviso that if one Egyptian soldier crosses the canal...
...seized the military initiative for the first time since last July, when Israeli airpower virtually silenced Egyptian batteries along the Suez. Subsequently, Israeli jets began hitting industrial and military targets deep inside Egypt. Cairo last week sent two Russian-made IL-28 bombers to raid the town of El Arish in the northern Sinai, destroying an ice factory and a herd of cattle before Israeli fighters shot down at least one of the planes. Egyptian fighter-bombers also hit Israeli positions along the canal. On three separate occasions, Egyptian commandos launched across-the-canal assaults on Israeli bunkers...