Word: egyptians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Egyptian and Israeli officers worked amicably together in negotiating the fine points of the transfer of authority over El Arish. "It's easy for each side to get along with each other," said Egyptian Brigadier General Hassan Abdel Fatah. "Some of the Israelis are from Arab countries, and they speak fluent Arabic." On the streets of the city, soldiers of the once rival armies exchanged currency as souvenirs...
...Israeli soldiers, in fact, had far more trouble dealing with their fellow citizens than with the Egyptians. Farmers from the settlement of Neot Sinai, two miles east of El Arish, refused last week to abandon a ten-acre vegetable patch that was part of the land being returned to Egypt. Several hundred militant Israeli nationalists drove into the Sinai to support the angry settlers. When Defense Minister Ezer Weizman visited the community in an effort to persuade the farmers to leave, he was spat upon and called a "traitor" and an "Egyptian agent." After Cairo turned down a last-minute...
...special meaning for the people of El Arish, whom a former British governor of Sinai, C.S. Jarvis, once described as "a steady, virile race with a marked propensity for hard work but an extraordinarily crooked, suspicious outlook on life generally." One departing Israeli official noted sarcastically that the biggest Egyptian flags in El Arish last week were flying from the rooftops of families who had cooperated most closely with the Israeli military authorities...
Israeli and Egyptian officials appear happy with Strauss's appointment, if only because they are convinced that he will have Carter's ear. The Egyptians expect the autonomy talks to be long, difficult and tedious; the appointment of a superambassador with political clout is regarded as a sure sign of Washington's commitment to the peace process...
Moreover, Strauss was in Cairo in April with a U.S. trade delegation and apparently impressed President Sadat by telling him that the obfuscation of the Egyptian bureaucracy was an obstacle to U.S. corporate investment in his country...