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...They are likely to demand the right of passage through Suez and to insist on keeping some of the real estate that they picked up during their four-day blitz-most notably Old Jerusalem, the highlands west of the River Jordan running from Jenin through Bethlehem to Hebron, and Sharm el Sheikh, which controls access to the Gulf of Aqaba...
...Egyptian army, delivered a crushing blow to the Jordanian army, captured most of the relevant parts of the Sinai Peninsula and the west bank of the Jordan, and we have destroyed almost totally the air forces of four countries." Eager young Israeli paratroopers prepared for a jump assault on Sharm el Sheikh, only to be advised that the Israeli navy had arrived first?and the Egyptians had fled. The disappointed troopers disembarked like tourists from planes that landed unopposed on the Egyptian airstrip...
...longer the blockade lasts, the more restless and apprehensive the Israelis are bound to become. They never forget that in 1956 it took Israeli troops only five days to reach Sharm el Sheikh and silence the guns that had closed the Gulf of Aqaba to their ships...
From the Gaza Strip in the north to Taba in the south, there has scarcely been a single incident of importance since UNEF troops moved into position. Discreetly, Hammarskjold did not go to Sharm el Sheikh, where Egyptian guns for more than six years barred entry of Israeli ships to the Gulf of Aqaba. Today UNEF soldiers watch as some six vessels a month push up the gulf to unload in the small Israeli port of Elath. But neither the Israelis (who are grateful) nor the Arabs (who do nothing to prevent the traffic) are anxious to call attention...
...said we were American and on our way to Elath," said the skipper, "the reply was, 'Good luck.' " As the tanker passed through the narrow and disputed Strait of Tiran, the captain ordered the flag dipped in salute to the UNEF troops garrisoning the Egyptian base at Sharm el Sheikh. UNEF fired an answering rocket in recognition. "A historic day!" cried Israeli Finance Minister Levi Eshkol as the tanker began pumping its cargo into newly finished tanks on the barren shore. Israeli crowds went wild with excitement, dancing the Hora, and the national radio interrupted its Sabbath music...