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...stubborn Defense Minister, Ariel Sharon, issued that pledge last week as he spoke at the opening of a new Israeli military outpost in the West Bank Valley of Elah where, according to biblical tradition, Goliath was slain by David. Having returned the final third of the Sinai Peninsula to Egyptian control, the government of Prime Minister Menachem Begin was showing that it had no intention of ever agreeing to a similar withdrawal from the other Arab territories occupied since 1967. "Israel has now reached the red line of its concessions," declared Sharon. Begin, whose government announced last week that...
After months of second thoughts and soul searching, the Israelis withdrew from the last third of the Sinai Peninsula last week and restored it to Egyptian control, thereby ending 15 years of Israeli occupation. The withdrawal effectively concluded the 1979 Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty, whose undisputed accomplishment had been to end the state of hostilities between Israel and Egypt...
...Rock on the Temple Mount, had inflamed Arab passions throughout the Middle East. The incident occurred, moreover, at a time of extreme anxiety in the region. Plagued with doubts about the wisdom of its action, Israel was preparing to withdraw from the final third of the Sinai Peninsula on April 25, while Egypt waited anxiously to see if the Israeli government of Prime Minister Menachem...
...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...
Italy was also the first European country to agree to join the multinational force that will patrol in the Sinai Peninsula after Israel's withdrawal on April 25. Anxious to dissociate themselves from U.S. policy in the Middle East, other allies hesitated for months...