Word: egyptians
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...high priced. Amos Rubin, senior director of economic-policy issues at the Bank of Israel, points out that after 14 years of peace with Egypt, Israel's exports to that country were a "paltry" $7 million last year. A joint economic committee formally established under the 1979 Israeli-Egyptian peace treaty finally was scheduled to hold its first meeting last Sunday -- an indication, perhaps, that peace and its prospective economic benefits are catching...
...enmity requires that the combatants themselves desire it. They know too that the glow of face-to-face agreements invariably fades as the vital enabling details are fashioned. Thus while Anwar Sadat and Menachem Begin reached beyond Washington's mediation in the 1970s, cementing the eventual Egyptian-Israeli treaty required Jimmy Carter's skill at Camp David. The play today is similar. As only they could, Yasser Arafat and Yitzhak Rabin have set the course, but America's continuing involvement is inevitable...
...next morning, within hours of Israel's declaration of independence, five Arab armies invaded the country from all directions. The Jewish section of Jerusalem was besieged for several months, bombarded by Jordanian artillery from the east and by Egyptian forces from the south. What had been, since the beginning of the century, a neighborly feud between Arabs and Jews turned that night into a major international...
...REALLY WAS A COLONEL IN THE Egyptian army. Cairo records confirm it. But everything else about Emad Salem is disputed or highly mysterious...
...agents were in touch with him as early as 1991. But they did not know if they could trust him: some feared he was an Egyptian intelligence agent pursuing an agenda that was not Washington's. They recruited him as a full- time informer only after the Feb. 26 bombing of the World Trade Center, when they desperately needed someone inside an Islamic radical group. Then he annoyed them by tape recording conversations with his FBI contacts as well as with alleged terrorists. One federal agent calls Salem "a pain...