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...solution for this is new settlements on occupied land. In order to secure its borders, Israel, since the Six-Day War, has been building permanent settlements in territories captured from neighboring Arab states. On the Syrian Golan Heights, for instance, there is a new Israeli settlement called Benei Yehuda. Sharm el Sheikh, overlooking the Straits of Tiran in southern Sinai, has been renamed Ophir and is being developed as an Israeli town, along with the communities of Di-Zahav and Neviot farther up the coast. The Gaza Strip, although it will continue to have an Arab identity, is to remain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ISRAEL: A City in Sinai | 1/22/1973 | See Source »

...Republics. Damascus and Jerusalem continue a running border war against each other, which on Syria's part, at least, is an attempt to draw Egypt back into the battle. Last week Syrian artillery once again pounded Israeli positions on the occupied Golan Heights, including the new settlement of Benei Yehuda. Israeli Phantoms scrambled to hit back at the Syrian guns and to tangle with the MIG-21s that climbed to meet them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: More Trouble for Sadat | 1/15/1973 | See Source »

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