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Eritrean coast of Ethiopia, where Communist Somalia is determined to grab French Somaliland. Further, recent troubles in Ethiopian Eritrea point to consolidation of a revolutionary beachhead on the western shore of the Red Sea.

The Israeli fear is that Egypt and Somalia will attempt to close the southern end of the Red Sea to Israel’s merchant shipping, as Egypt has done at Suez. If this happened, Israel’s development at Eilat, and its opening up of the Negev desert frontier, would be meaningless.

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Eritrean coast of Ethiopia, where Communist Somalia is determined to grab French Somaliland. Further, recent troubles in Ethiopian Eritrea point to consolidation of a revolutionary beachhead on the western shore of the Red Sea.

The Israeli fear is that Egypt and Somalia will attempt to close the southern end of the Red Sea to Israel’s merchant shipping, as Egypt has done at Suez. If this happened, Israel’s development at Eilat, and its opening up of the Negev desert frontier, would be meaningless.