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...plausible scenario is that Israel will relinquish the bulk of the territories it conquered in the Six-Day War in return for ironclad guarantees that the Arab states will accept Israel's existence. From such an agreement, a number of benefits might ultimately flow: the reopening of the Suez Canal, a solution to the problem of the Palestinian refugees, Arab-Israeli cooperation in the development of the desert, even a Middle East Common Market...
...signal came not a moment too soon. Only the day before, Israeli jets near the Suez Canal shot down four Egyptian air force MIG-21s, killing one of the pilots. Though all parties prudently refused to admit it, TIME learned that some Soviet flyers were involved in the incident, the first in which Soviet-piloted MIGs have been shot down-an event fraught with awesome consequences and feared by the U.S. and Israel since the Red air force began to fly missions in Egypt nearly four months...
Nasser continued to attack Israeli forces along the Suez Canal in Sinai, the Phantoms allowed Defense Minister Dayan and Israeli Chief of Staff Haim Bar-Lev to develop a new policy of deep bombing. The more Nasser attacked along the canal, the deeper the Phantoms struck into the heartland of Egypt. Many Israelis hoped that the humiliation of such raids might cause Egypt to depose Nasser...
...Arabists prevailed, and the Nixon Administration decided to turn down Israel's request rather than unbalance the Middle East. But that decision was nearly overturned after the President discovered the extent of the Russian military penetration into Egypt. Russian MIGs were stationed at airbases close to the Suez Canal. The Soviet missiles had been moved near the canal in large numbers; using improved Russian equipment, Egyptian missile crews had already shot down Phantoms for the first time, destroying four within a 19-day period. The Administration seemed to be in a mood of confrontation again, rather than...
Another Rogers caller was Israeli Ambassador Yitzhak Rabin, who was particularly worried that a limited ceasefire might give Egypt an opportunity to move Russian missiles up to the Suez Canal. In Tel Aviv, Foreign Minister Abba Eban expressed similar concern, arguing that a temporary cease-fire "would be a certificate for the resumption of hostilities on a fixed date. It would be only a phase of war, whereas a permanent cease-fire would be a transition for peace...