(Jerusalem Post) Uri Dan - Egypt's land and air forces, equipped with the latest American weapons, constitute the greatest potential threat to Israel. It is therefore of vital importance not to change the 1979 peace agreement between Israel and Egypt guaranteeing that the Sinai Desert given up by Begin would remain demilitarized. The Egyptians are demanding that Israel agree to the deployment of about 5,000 Egyptian troops in Sinai, along the border with Israel from Rafiah to Eilat, equipped with armored fighting vehicles. Egypt has not given up its attempts to regain complete sovereignty over the desert region and is exploiting the current opportunity to destroy the principle of the demilitarization of Sinai.
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