Talk:Sinai Peninsula

Exodus from Egypt

What are people's opinions regarding a possible inclusion of the Exodus narrative in regards to Sinai? Valley2city 06:17, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

Definitely. Amoruso 12:40, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

Deleted external links

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Ancient Agricultural People in the Sinai

Why is there no mention of the fact that the entire drainage system from the south-central highlands to the Mediterranean, and the plains of the northern Negev and highlands of the western Negev was once farmland? You seem to think that the Sinai has always been sparsely populated, whereas it was in truth once home to what must have been many tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands.

Is Sinai part of Africa or Asia

This article and several others dont clarify this question. The "southwest asia" article has a map with Sinai colored-in as part of southwest Asia, and says Egypt is not considered a south-west asian country. Although like Turkey, there is no reason why a country can't be in two continents. My opinion ( and it is only that ) is that Sinai is more geologically attached to Asia than Africa. The Suez canal would be an appropriate boundary. The "Eilat" article says that town is on the boundary of Asia and Africa which presumably implies that the Israel-Egypt border is the boundary. Someone with more expertise than me needs to clarify this. Eregli bob 09:09, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

I am no expert in the subject. But the article about Sinai in the Hebrew Wikipedia explicitly says that Sinai is located in south-west Asia. No reference is given, though. Ehudzel (talk) 09:34, 3 October 2009 (UTC)

I came to this article specifically to answer the question: Asia or Africa? It would be wonderful for someone to help answer this question. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.141.201.162 (talk) 20:54, 28 November 2009 (UTC)

Broken Link

"Voyages...Visages" - Another way of travelling and seeing I keep on timing out on this, does it work for anyone else? Horus (talk) 21:05, 6 October 2008 (UTC)

It works but you didn't miss anything - just a link to a website with some amateurish pics of some kids & people that someone took in his various travels. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.18.3.168 (talk) 14:29, 15 April 2010 (UTC)

Geography and Geology?

Where are the geographical features of this land, i.e. formation, composition, geological history... Only history and tourist info? Please expand this article, that's really relevant information! Al-Iskandar Tzaraath (talk) 09:09, 4 May 2009 (UTC)

I agree. It appears to be a land bridge between Africa and Eurasia. This must have (had) important consequences concerning migration patterns and speciation. 213.47.144.254 (talk) 19:42, 6 August 2010 (UTC)

Amazing

But this article actually EXCLUDES any mention of why the name Sinai is used, and any significance for the Jews! Antisemitism in Wikipedia is alive an well 120.22.219.202 (talk) 11:22, 2 October 2010 (UTC)

Making accusations of 'Anti-semitism' merely because an article does not contain a specific piece of information you feel should be included is both irresponsible and insulting. There is a Jewish Wikiproject which looks over this article (the link is above). Perhaps you should raise the matter on their project page. Manning (talk) 03:31, 15 December 2011 (UTC)

NPOV dispute

There's an NPOV dispute going on between an IP and myself. Here's a diff. I regard the changes being made as slanted towards a overly Pro-Egyptian bias. Other editor's input sought. Manning (talk) 00:02, 22 December 2011 (UTC)

I agree that the changes proposed by the IP are not NPOV. I don't object to "liberate", but terms like "Israeli intransigence" and "Egypt's repeated overtures of peace" (instead of "proposals") are not neutral. Also, reference to Palestine and Palestinian territories is anachronistic. Further, changing from U.S. to British spelling conventions is against the Wikipedia MOS. Wilson44691 (talk) 13:24, 22 December 2011 (UTC)

The IP is persisting with the changes, despite my attempt to start discussion here. I'm at the edge of a 3RR violation, so I'm dropping out. I've logged this at AN/I. Manning (talk) 01:24, 23 December 2011 (UTC)

I can live with the recent changes for now. Next time such changes should be done in stages and discussed in the talk pages when contentious. Manning was right to revert when there was no discussion. The Straits of Tiran, by the way, were never entirely Egyptian "territorial waters". Wilson44691 (talk)

Strangely, all IP's is located in England (At least their exchanges are). Btw, this was taken to ANI. And I'm surprised this page wasn't locked, too --Nutthida (talk) 23:14, 23 December 2011 (UTC)

Added my 2 cents. Deleted "liberated" which is unnecessary (doesn't add anything) and the supposed motivations for the Yom Kippur War (why was it labeled the "October War"? The mainstream namefor the war is the Yom Kippur War) are unnecessary as well, especially given that one of Egypt's stated aims was the destruction of Israel, or to use the Arab regime's language the liberation of all of "Palestine". Also, Syria was instrumental in launching the war as well. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 168.122.118.12 (talk) 23:03, 6 January 2012 (UTC)

Liberate is the correct term as the territoriy in question is and was sovereign Egyptian territory, and recognised as such by the United Nations. Use of this term does not indicate support or condemnation for one belligerant or another. The claim that "one of Egypt's stated aims was the destruction of Israel" is incorrect in this instance, and is contrary to the fact that prior to the war the Egyptian government under Sadat had requested direct U.S. assistance in brokering a peace treaty between Egypt and Israel based on 'land for peace'. The stated goal of "destruction" is really from the Nasser era, not from the period of Sadat's presidency. Sadat's stated goal was the liberation of Sinai. Secondly, reference to October War is appropriate in this context as this is the term used in the state of which the territory that is the subject of the article is a component part (namely Egypt), and is a known alternative name for the conflict in English. 86.162.174.49 (talk) 13:05, 8 January 2012 (UTC)

It looks like the IP editor from the discussion above ended up rewriting quite a lot of the history section of article. The result is downright propagandist. Heptor _talk 17:35, 26 March 2013 (UTC)