Word: suez
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...forget, the Israeli seems to say, the incredible war of 1948 in which the forces of one tiny nation defeated six invading Arab armies. Let no one forget the Six-Day War, when the Egyptians literally abandoned their shoes as they tried to get back across the Suez Canal, leaving their armored corps in a smoldering heap in the Mitla Pass. Let no one forget the "War of Attrition," including that memorable day in 1970 when the Israelis trapped Soviet MiGs just north of Cairo in a pincer of Phantoms and Skyhawks and shot down five of the Russian-piloted...
...Egypt nationalizes the Suez Canal, and Israeli armies, under secret pact with Britain and France, invade the Sinai peninsula...
...With the help of a tutor, he studied at night by the light of an oil lamp, and he remains fiercely proud that he skipped several grades after entering school. He traces his political consciousness to the late 1950s. "Everything was happening," he says. "Arab nationalism was exploding. The Suez Canal had been nationalized by the Egyptians in 1956; Algeria was fighting for its independence. The monarchy had been overthrown in Iraq. In Libya, nothing was happening. We had only a simple old King, a fool of a crown prince and a corrupt government...
...still believes that the first step should be an interim settlement allowing the reopening of the Suez Canal; this would be followed by negotiations toward an overall settlement. But Egypt maintains that "proximity" talks-in which Egyptian and Israeli teams would position themselves in separate rooms of the same building, with an American mediator running back and forth between them-can only take place if the Israelis will first give an assurance that they will withdraw to the pre-1967 borders. The Israelis reply that they are not going to assure any withdrawing in advance of negotiations...
...Call it extremely bad judgment, but do not describe the tragic downing of the Libyan Arab Airlines plane east of Suez [March 5] as carrying "aggression to new heights...