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...years, Israel and Egypt have wrangled over ownership of a mere 250 acres of beachfront on the Gulf of Aqaba. To Egypt, Taba was an integral part of the Sinai, retrieved in 1982 under the terms of the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty. To Israel, it was a popular resort that draws tens of thousands of vacationers a year. Last week an international arbitration panel effectively awarded sovereignty to Egypt...
...finally over. Israel now says negotiations are needed to decide who owns the resort's lucrative hotel. The conservative Likud is also using the dispute to bash its ) Labor rivals in Israel's election campaign. Although both parties had agreed to arbitration, Likud politicos are angrily demanding, "Who lost Taba...
...order to give them a pleasant view of the port of Aqaba, now part of Jordan. In fact, say the Israelis, the British blurred the issue quite literally by marking the border on the 1915 map with a very thick pencil. But if the Israelis had a claim to Taba, reply the Egyptians, why did they make no attempt to retain it when they overran and then withdrew from the Sinai following the 1948 and 1956 wars? Papouchado favors a Solomonic solution, suggesting that the two countries maintain joint control of Taba and that he be allowed...
...once, the good news from the Middle East outweighed the bad, though not by a very wide margin. The good news was that after a final four-day bargaining session, Israel and Egypt had settled the details for submitting to international arbitration the pesky Taba dispute, which had been impeding good relations between the two countries for the past four years. That in turn led to a two-day summit meeting in Alexandria between Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres. The event apparently succeeded in moderating what Israelis call the "cold peace," which has prevailed since...
There was perhaps a touch of contrivance in the drama of Egyptian Prime Minister Ali Lutfi flying home last week from London, where he had met with British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, to preside over a midnight Cabinet meeting to approve the Taba agreement. But it was a welcome change from the grim tales of hijacking, kidnaping and wanton murder that so regularly emanate from the region. If nothing else, the Taba agreement and the Alexandria summit demonstrated that even in the Middle East, common sense can sometimes...