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...would be handled mostly by American technicians. Thus it would be very difficult to transfer the F-15s to other Arab states. The Saudis also insist they have no intention of basing the planes at their Tabuk airbase, which is only 125 miles from the Israeli port of Eilat. One reason is that the Saudis do not want the planes, which cost $16 million apiece, to be unnecessarily vulnerable to Israeli attack. (During the October War of 1973, the Saudis moved most of their combat planes away from bases near Israel...
Israeli diplomats have insisted on maintaining a military presence at Sharm el Sheikh as a way of guaranteeing that ships will have unhindered access through the Gulf of Aqaba to the port of Eilat. Egypt would lease to Israel Sharm el Sheikh and an access road along the western shore of the Gulf of Aqaba for a stated period-perhaps 20 years. An alternative is to place a U.N. force at Sharm el Sheikh and give Israel inspection rights. Most experts agree that Israel's stated strategic concern about the Aqaba Gulf is irrelevant. Whether cargoes get through...
...this area with military installations. At Bir Gifgafa, 15 miles north of the Giddi Pass, is a giant forward base containing tank-repair shops and jet-fighter strips that could be relinquished. But closer to Israel, newer and more sophisticated airbases have been or are being built. Etzion, near Eilat, and Etam, about 30 miles south of Rafah, are already operational. A third base between them is still under construction...
...away one prospective customer. Abie Nathan, onetime Tel Aviv hamburger king who lobbies for Arab-Israeli friendship aboard his "peace ship" Shalom in the Mediterranean, sailed the 110-ton vessel into Port Said. Nathan hoped to make good on a pledge to sail through to the Israeli port of Eilat. He was refused passage and escorted back to sea by the Egyptian navy...
...northbound convoy in eight years-two Iranian destroyers along with cargo ships from Japan, Italy, Pakistan and the Sudan. Israel may suffer economically from the reopening of the Suez since, among other things, it will cut heavily into a profitable overland transfer route, from the Red Sea port of Eilat to Ashkelon, that Israel developed after the 1967 canal closing. Nonetheless Foreign Minister Yigal Allon conveyed "heartfelt and most sincere wishes to Egypt that the canal will indeed bear the hoped-for economic fruit." In his speech to the Knesset, Allon emphasized, however, that Israel expected its cargoes to move...