@article {Barak:Autumn 2007:0026-3141:657,
	author = "Barak, Eitan",
	title = "Between Reality and Secrecy: Israel's Freed of Navigation through the Straits of Tiran, 1956-1967",
	journal = "The Middle East Journal",
	volume = "61",
	year = "Autumn 2007",
	abstract = "Following the Suez War, Israel defined any interference with its freedom of navigation through the Straits of Tiran as a <I>casus belli</I>. Despite acceptance by the international community, Egypt's opposed position remained intact. Hence, to prevent the reoccurrence of war, a complex set of tacit understandings and arrangements was reached between the opponents during 1957. Under these circumstances and a veil of secrecy, Egypt acquiesced to the passage of Israeli ships in the Straits while Israel &#8212; uncertain about its legal rights and preferring economic considerations to quibbling over sovereignty &#8212; accepted various limitations.",
	pages = "657-679(23)",
	url = "http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/mei/mei/2007/00000061/00000004/art00006"
}