четверг, 15 марта 2012 г.

The emerging story

Notwithstanding the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs' perennial warnings about terrorist plots against holidaymakers in Sinai, my wife and I are back in Egypt for the fourth time this year. We're staying at Camp Ras ash-Shatein, a seaside oasis of "no-star" luxury 27 miles south of the Eilat-Taba border crossing on the Gulf of Aqaba.

The Arabic name, misunderstood by some as the "Devil's Head," signifies the promontory between twin beaches. The campground sprawls organically around a rock outcrop that divides two crescent-shaped bays protected by a coral reef.

Israelis who visited here under the IDF occupation of Sinai from 1967 to 1982 may still call the place Magama …

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