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...never had it so good," Israel's prestigious newspaper Ha'aretz told its readers last week as it editorially noted the second anniversary of the Suez Canal ceasefire. Few Israelis would disagree. Not only has there been no shooting along the canal, but terrorism by Arab fedayeen is down sharply, and, most important, the threat of a confrontation with Russia was removed when Soviet forces withdrew from Egypt. For the first time in all of its 24 years, Israel had no challenger in the Middle East-and in many ways was finding the new situation more difficult...
...Lady Vanishes and now Frenzy are trapped by histories of international war and British impotence. The first two innocents were caught up in pre-World War II subterfuge; Dick Blainey of Frenzy is a ripe Jimmy Porter figure, an RAF squadron leader (when could he have flown--during Suez?) unable to rise successfully on the rungs of the Welfare State...
...first thing one senses is that the Israeli race to dig in is over. Only once, beside the Suez Canal, did I see earth movers working in a cluster, bolstering causeways that already looked forbiddingly high. Elsewhere, telephone and electric lines are in place, water pipes are underground. Fences and electronic gear do sentry duty; few military vehicles or troops are noticeable. But they are there. "We've got everything we need," said an officer in a forward post. "One shell and I'll be ready to make war in three minutes, maybe less...
Israel is prepared to return portions of occupied land on which it has not established protective settlements against future attacks. On that basis, about all that is negotiable is the Suez Canal. Elsewhere settlers have moved fast, and they are thinking far ahead. At coralline Sharm el Sheikh, now renamed Ophira, they are building hotels and planning still others to accommodate tourists. Hard-topped roads make access far easier than it was in 1967. At a new kibbutz on the Golan Heights, British-born Frank Donnel points to the freshly planted grass and trees. "Another ten years...
...gives his address as "Dikla, Northern Sinai." "There's no chance we'll ever leave," says Ben-Ya'acov. "The government will never give back El Arish." Nor is Israel likely to relinquish the oil town of Abu Rodeis to the south on the Gulf of Suez, where Israelis are pumping 18,000 tons daily of what was formerly Egyptian oil. The new school in Abu Rodeis last week proudly graduated its first six students. Eight tour buses a day visit the town, although there is little to sightsee besides a bank and a supermarket. "The tourists...