Word: suez
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...with a friendly port, so did the Israelis--for different reasons. Seeing Nasser commit 70,000 men into what is now the Democratic anti-monarchists, fearing the further spread of Arab influence and ever aware of the importance of maintaining an open seaway from the Indian Ocean through the Suez Canal to the Mediterranean, the Israelis sent police-military advisers to Ethiopia to combat the Moslem independence group in Eritrea. At the same time the rebel Eritreans received support from Egypt, Syria and Iraq. The backward empire of Iran. however, susceptible to Soviet influence and a possible overthrow by insurgent...
...Leader Shimon Peres, and talked with Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan over dinner at the Israel Museum. Then they flew deep into the Sinai desert to hear Israeli Defense Minister Ezer Weizman during a luncheon at a forward airbase. Next day, after going on to Egypt, the group crossed the Suez Canal as a guest of the Egyptian Second Army, saw the wrecked Bar-Lev line and toured Egyptian fortifications...
...conscious of a serious development: the United States was using us for the air-bridge she now established to save Israel. El Arish became an airbase where colossal U.S. transport aircraft landed, loaded with tanks and sophisticated weapons. El Arish is an Egyptian city [90 miles east of the Suez Canal in Sinai, it was captured...
...days from Oct. 19 to 22. I challenge Israel to declare the real losses she sustained in the Deversoir Bulge, or indeed, in Sinai. Our Special Service and air forces inflicted great losses on the Israelis in those few days, particularly at Deversoir on the West Bank [of the Suez Canal]. The Israelis would not admit this until 1976, when they actually described the Deversoir Bulge as "the Valley of Death...
...three-hour session, during which we agreed on .six points, one of which was that Egyptian-Israeli talks for a disengagement of forces and a return to the lines of Oct. 22 would start at Km. 101 on the Cairo-Suez road. The talks were held -under U.N. supervision. But they were very protracted. I left at the time for Algiers to attend the Arab Summit Conference, and when I came back, the negotiations still hadn't got anywhere. I asked [Chief of Staff Mohammed Abdel] Gamassy to suspend them. "I am not prepared," I said, "to engage...