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...between Eilat and Sharm el Sheikh. His predecessors had been determined to keep this land, and he was offering it back to Egypt, which was very difficult for him. He added that the presence of a few Israeli settlers' homes was not an infringement on Egyptian sovereignty...
...most of the last signs of the Israeli occupation-the buildings, streets, even the palm trees and vegetable gardens that the Israelis had planted in the desert. Two days later, on Sunday, April 25, the white and blue flag bearing the Star of David was lowered at Sharm el Sheikh on the southern tip of the Sinai, bringing the Israeli occupation...
...reported TIME's David Halevy, "a land of sand, wind and camels once more." The Israelis left standing the Red Sea resorts of Neviot, Di-Zahav and Sharm el Sheikh. Otherwise, they were remarkably thorough in obliterating the last traces of human habitation in the settlements before they left...
...United States--which Jimmy Carter thought so vital that he was willing to invoke the specter of limited nuclear war in such an event). The second Israeli attack, coordinated with the British and French assaults on Egypt's Port Said, resulted in Moshe Dayan's army reaching Sharm el-Sheikh at the Sinai peninsula's southern...
...CAMPDAVID "framework for peace" of September 1978 ended the stalemate of intractable conflict. Israel surrendered the Sinai, including the Alma oil fields it had developed which would have provided economic security for a country faced with hostility on all sides. By handing back Sharm el-Sheikh and the Rafah salient, Israel also relinquished two key military assets. So fervent was the desire for peace, however, even the hero Dayan (then the foreign minister) assented to total withdrawal when he realized that Egypt would not countenance settlements such as Yamit in the Sinai...