Article: Under Gaze of the Sphinx: Hillel Halkin Ponders Riddles of Pact With

Jeffrey Goldberg
Forward
05-06-1994
Under Gaze of the Sphinx: Hillel Halkin Ponders Riddles of Pact With PLO.

CAIRO -- The Sphinx is an Egyptian symbol, but its famous riddle is part of Western not Egyptian literature, and the Egyptian officials who planned today's ceremony of the signing of the Gaza-Jericho agreement may not have appreciated the symbolism of their own handiwork. Yet there it was: On a stage at Cairo's palatial International Conference Center that looked like a set for a production of Aida, a diaphanous curtain separated the participants from a backdrop of a blue sky in which electric lights twinkled like stars. Beneath sky and curtain loomed a pyramid and the great Sphinx, ...

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