Word: egyptians
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...everything goes according to plan, peace in the Middle East is just four steps away. First, Secretary of State James Baker will meet in Washington with the Egyptian and Israeli foreign ministers to select a Palestinian delegation. That group, in turn, will travel to Cairo, where Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak will be host for preliminary talks in which the Palestinians and an Israeli delegation will set down the ground rules for elections in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. They will use as their framework a proposal put forward ten months ago by Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir...
...occupiers of the Sinai peninsula, from Justinian to the Prophet Muhammed to Abdel Nasser and Golda Meir, took the site under their protection. Mount Sinai is enclosed in a convective divinity that is primitive and powerful. The mountain seems to gather thousands of years into a prismatic clarity. The Egyptian Ministry of Housing and Reconstruction, however, is not awed...
...thick layer of soot at the site, which according to radioactive carbon-14 dating was laid down about 1400 B.C., supports the biblical idea that the city was burned, not simply conquered. Finally, Egyptian amulets found in Jericho graves can be dated to around 1400 B.C. as well. Says Wood: "It looks to me as though the biblical stories are correct...
...Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir promised in a phone call that they would not allow the attack to threaten Israeli-Egyptian relations. But it could strengthen the hand of Israeli hard- liners at this week's crucial meeting of the Likud bloc's Central Committee. Industry and Trade Minister Ariel Sharon says the bus tragedy is proof that the Arabs want blood, not peace. He plans to load more amendments onto Shamir's already heavily encumbered plan for Palestinian elections...
Meanwhile, Egyptian police have made the bus killings their top priority. Evidence suggests the culprits were rejectionist Palestinian commandos rather than Egyptian fundamentalists, as was originally suspected...