Word: egyptians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Last week, as Cairo and Jerusalem were engaged in an elaborate game of diplomatic bluff, the rhetoric exploded again. Negotiations over a second-stage disengagement in Sinai hit snags that on the surface at least indicated the possibility of deadlock. But even as Israeli Premier Yitzhak Rabin was dismissing Egyptian proposals as unacceptable last week, he was also insisting that the talks must continue...
Back to Washington last week, for transmission to Jerusalem, came an Egyptian counterproposal. Offering a map for the first time, Cairo reportedly accepted in principle the presence of Israelis at the eastern edge of the passes, although not in the same places that Jerusalem suggested. The lines drawn by the Egyptians came so close to the big Israeli airbase at Bir Gifgafa that Rabin, even before he consulted with his Cabinet, appeared on Israeli television to dismiss Cairo's suggestions out of hand...
Sadat's Ploy. After milking the melodramatic possibilities of the threat, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, only 30 hours before the old mandate expired, magnanimously accepted a "dawn appeal" by the U.N. Security Council to extend it for three more months (rather than six as suggested by Israel). Egyptian spokesmen insisted that Sadat's ploy had succeeded, since it had alerted the world to the dangerous potentialities of the Sinai situation. Some observers suspected that the President had made his threat in order to convince Egypt's more militant Arab allies that he can be tough...
...Egyptian move was wholly unexpected, especially since Kissinger seemed to be making progress toward the kind of agreement that Cairo wants. U.S. Ambassador to Egypt Herman Eilts, who apparently had no inkling of Fahmy's announcement, flew from Cairo to Washington the same day for a Kissinger briefing on the Secretary's talks with Rabin. Kissinger himself called the move "disturbing" and "extremely unfortunate." Israelis insisted that the Egyptian threat was an empty bluff by Cairo to increase Washington's pressure on Israel. In any case, Rabin told the Knesset, "Israel is not a country that makes...
...Council members to discuss how the mandate could be kept alive. Practically speaking, however, the U.N. troops could not remain in place if one side demanded their ouster. If they were forced out by Egypt, the situation could be ominous-and there is a disturbing precedent. In May 1967, Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser demanded a similar pullout of U.N. forces for their own safety in the face of "Israeli aggression" and Egyptian defensive moves. The late Secretary-General U Thant complied. Eighteen days later, the Six-Day War erupted. The Israelis were betting that Cairo would back down, partly...