Word: sheikhs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Egyptians are prepared to develop step-by-step progress in peace talks with Israel that could break the complex Middle East stalemate. The phased pattern: first solve Sinai and the Suez Canal, then Sharm el Sheikh, Gaza, the Palestinian question, the Golan Heights and, finally, Jerusalem. Egypt will not settle for less than the return of all its territories, but Sadat is willing to provide the kind of guarantees that Israel has long demanded. Free navigation in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aqaba, a nonrevocable international force at Sharm el Sheikh and even Israeli purchase of Sinai...
...guaranteed by a permanent United Nations force-one that could be withdrawn only by the Security Council. With its veto power, the U.S. could thus assure Israel that the force could never be taken away without American assent. A similar U.N. force could be established at Sharm el Sheikh, a strategic point overlooking the Straits of Tiran, so that Egypt could never again threaten Israeli access...
...week began, Egyptian forces held firm in their positions on the eastern bank of the Suez Canal, protected from Israeli planes by the umbrella of artillery and missiles. Occasionally they staged commando raids behind Israeli lines, including two on Sharm el Sheikh, at the mouth of the Gulf of Aqaba. By midweek the Egyptian buildup in the Sinai had reached more than 100,000 men and 1,000 tanks. They struck spasmodically at Israeli positions in an effort to ease the pressure on Syrian, Jordanian and Iraqi forces on the battlefronts of the Golan Heights...
...Israelis who look at this problem today ask themselves this question: "If we had been mad enough to abandon the Golan Heights and Sharm el Sheikh and all the Sinai and the whole West Bank [of the Jordan], would not the massive attack launched October 6 have murdered thousands of our civilians, devastated our population centers and brought us to catastrophe?" I tell you, a massacre more hideous than Auschwitz would have been a real prospect and Israel's survival would be in doubt. To suggest a restoration of the pre-1967 lines is sheer irresponsibility in the light...
...forth by Mrs. Meir: he feels that Is rael must stay in the Golan Heights to protect its border with Syria, but he would be willing to withdraw from all areas essential to Egypt for its "daily life and security" - the Suez Canal and the Suez Gulf. "Sharm el Sheikh," he added, "is not essential in any way for Egypt. We should stay there. Sinai should be divided by one line or an other. We would control the straits to Elath but not to Port Said. One day Egypt will have a leadership that will be ready to start negotiating...