Egypt proposed posting troops along its border with Israel to prevent more bombings in the Sinai. Israeli political sources said Monday that Jerusalem was weighing the proposal from Egyptian officials, which would mean revising parts of the 1979 Israeli-Egyptian peace accord that call for the Sinai desert to be demilitarized.
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