Word: egyptians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...NOBEL PEACE PRIZE Committee's honoring of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin was at best premature, and at worst an admission of the shallowness of the award itself. Though both heads of state should be commended for their long-awaited search for peace, the negotiated Camp David framework still leaves the future stability of the Middle East uncertain. There is no doubt that in taking the peace initiative and in alienating himself from the rest of the Arab community, Sadat took a courageous step. Similarly, Begin's receptiveness deserves recognition. But the Nobel Peace Prize...
...billion on military installations, including two big new airfields, two old ones, three early warning stations and about 1,000 miles of roads. Jerusalem continued to develop the Sinai even after the disengagement agreements of 1974 and 1975, under which the Israelis pulled back from the Suez Canal, the Egyptians reduced their forces in the area, and the Israelis returned the Ras Sudr and Abu Rudeis oilfields to Egyptian control...
...Egyptian and Israeli delegates apparently got on well with each other, both in the Blair House talks and during informal meetings at the Madison Hotel, their common residence. But as the week passed, the Israelis became somewhat irritated that the U.S. was not being more evenhanded, especially while the Blair House talks were going on. Thus, Dayan's semipublic comments about trouble brewing were partly intended to warn the Carter Administration not to go too far in siding with the Egyptians. "They are getting all of Sinai," Dayan reportedly grumbled to Carter. "You would think they might at least...
...Sinai during the Six-Day War of 1967, the 24,000-sq.-mi., 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...
...years of Israeli occupation of the peninsula have heightened the Egyptians' sense of loss. As a "last mission," President Anwar Sadat dreams of building a shrine on Mount Sinai at which Christians, Jews and Muslims can pray together. And now that Israel has agreed in principle to withdraw, Egyptian planners are busy drawing up ambitious schemes for transforming the Sinai into a rich national asset. In addition to oil exploration, mining and tourism, the government has plans for reclaiming 700,000 acres of land in the northwestern Sinai by piping in water from the Nile...