Egypt and Israel remain far apart on the Palestinian issue
We are not retreating. We are leaving in the hope of peace." So read a large orange sign at Israel's Sinai military base of Refidim. Twelve years after its forces had occupied the Sinai and ten months after the signing of the Camp David agreement, Israel removed the last of its troops and weaponry from the western two-thirds of the desert peninsula. For the next two years, until the final third of Sinai is returned to Egyptian control, the Israelis will be stationed east of the Ras Muhammad-El Arish...
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