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...defensive. First, in a major shift in Arab policy, he announced his willingness to recognize Israel's right to exist in return for the restoration of captured territory. Next, he offered a kind of mini-peace on the issue of the Suez Canal as a way of getting that waterway into operation again and, more important, of getting Israeli troops off its east bank...
...just east of the Mediterranean coastal town of El Arish to Ras Mohammed, at the extreme southern tip of the Sinai peninsula just west of Sharm el Sheikh (see map). Once the withdrawal had been accomplished, Egyptians would occupy the area and begin the laborious business of clearing the waterway (see box, page...
Israel, which has never been allowed to send a ship through the canal, was wary. For one thing, the Israelis consider the waterway an ideal tank ditch against any Egyptian cross-canal movements. The farthest that Israeli troops would probably withdraw from the Bar-Lev Line would be to an area from which they could see or hear Egyptian or Russian troops crossing the canal in strength. Israel indicated last week that it would also oppose the rebuilding of bridges over the canal. Moreover, Israel insisted that it would consider a Suez settlement as a separate agreement...
...President Anwar Sadat responded to Jarring's overtures by promising, for the first time, to accept a binding peace treaty and recognition of Israeli sovereignty in exchange for the return of all captured territory. Sadat also asked that Israel pull back from the Suez Canal so that the waterway could be reopened to "international shipping...
Assembly included one unexpected element. If Israel would pull back partially from the Suez Canal, he promised, Egypt would begin to repair the waterway to accommodate international traffic once more. The Russians would certainly like such a move; with the canal opened again, it would be easier to supply their growing naval force in the Indian Ocean. But Sadat was also making a studied attempt to demonstrate his new administration's sense of responsibility as a member of the world community. In some key respects, Sadat's Suez Canal offer is vague. He did not indicate, for instance...