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Ariel Sharon stood on the dock at Israel's Red Sea port Eilat. Arrayed around him were row upon row of rifles, rockets, missiles and ammunition. Israeli commandos had snatched the weapons from a boat Israel claims was smuggling the arms to the Palestinian Authority. Sharon accused Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat of wanting to blow up the faint, remaining hopes of peace with this lethal, 50-ton haul. But it was not for Arafat, whom Sharon consistently calls a terrorist, that the Israeli Prime Minister had his bitterest words. Those he reserved for Iran, which Israel maintains was the supplier...
...natural 1,300-ft. drop in altitude could power turbines, and the electricity generated could desalinate water to irrigate the desert in the Jordan Rift valley. A regional airport near the Jordanian port of Aqaba could relieve air traffic next door in the Israeli city of Eilat; an open border would attract many more tourists to the Red Sea riviera. The electrical grids of the region could be linked to share peak loads and save billions...
...sides want to sign as soon as possible. Without benefit of a formal treaty, the two countries cooperate on matters like sharing the waters of the Jordan River. At the last round of peace talks in June, their negotiators fell to discussing pest control in the neighboring towns of Eilat and Aqaba. Says Shimon Peres: "We were left without subjects except for mosquitoes and flies...
When a polo pony from the royal compound in Jordan plunged into the Gulf of Aqaba and swam to the Israeli resort town of Eilat, local authorities took no chances. They checked to see if the defector was booby-trapped. It wasn't. Though Jordan and Israel are technically at war, Israeli officials returned the pony through a U.N. go-between...
...destruction of Israel. We are preparing for an all-out war, a war which will last for generations" (1980). "The victory march will continue until the Palestinian flag flies in Jerusalem and all of Palestine--from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea and from Rosh Hanikra to Eilat" (1980). "The war of attrition against the Zionist enemy will never cease" (1983). "O heroic sons of Gaza Strip, O proud sons of the [West] Bank, O heroic sons of the Galilee, O steadfast sons of the Negev:...the fires of revolution against these Zionist invaders will not fade out...until...