Word: peninsulas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Arabs in the occupied territories. Their fate is at the very core of the Israeli dilemma today. So far, Israel has formally annexed only the 19 sq. mi. (and 70,000 inhabitants) of East Jerusalem; but the Golan Heights, Sharm el Sheikh at the tip of the Sinai Peninsula and the access road along the Gulf of Aqaba have also been annexed in everything but name. The government's strategy is to create an interlocking economy between Israel and the territories, and today 30% of the territories' labor force crosses the border every morning to work in Israel...
...Egypt nationalizes the Suez Canal, and Israeli armies, under secret pact with Britain and France, invade the Sinai peninsula...
ATER 25 years of open or undercover warfare, neither Israel nor the Arab states can find much pride or glory any longer in the killing. But Israel last week carried aggression to new heights. Over the occupied Sinai peninsula, Israeli Phantoms scrambled to intercept an unarmed Libyan Arab Airlines Boeing 727 jet that was bound for Cairo and almost certainly had lost its way. The Israelis shot it down, killing 105 of the 111 people on board...
Along with twelve other captured farmhands, Munoz was taken to Miami Airport and flown to the nearest point in Mexico, which happened to be the Yucatan peninsula-600 miles across the Gulf of Mexico and about 1,200 miles overland from Texas...
...change. Within the next two months, Israeli surveyors-to be followed by bulldozers and construction workers-will begin charting the site for a new city in a 40-sq.-mi. strip of coastal land below the Gaza border town of Rafah in a corner of the Israeli-occupied Sinai Peninsula. By the end of 1974, a settlement large enough to support 350 families will have been built. By the end of the century, if the planners have their way, the settlement will have grown to a community of 232,000 people. All this is happening on territory that is still...