Israel Says British Archives Back Claim
Israel has obtained material from British archives in an attempt to strengthen its case in a border dispute with Egypt over control of the tiny Red Sea beach at Taba, a senior Israeli official said Sunday.
The official refused to disclose the material or say which archive it had come from.
Israel and Egypt both claim the 700-yard-long Sinai Desert strip just south of the Israeli port of Eilat.
Israel kept control of Taba when it handed back the rest of Sinai to Cairo under the Camp David accords in 1982.
Egypt wants the dispute to go to international arbitration.
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