ABSTRACT
The Sinai Peninsula was consequently regarded as part of the British protectorate over Egypt from 1914 to 1922 and remained an Egyptian administered region ever since. In July 1946, at the height of the Sidqi-Bevin negotiation for a new Anglo-Egyptian treaty, the question of the Egyptian boundary was raised by Jennings Bramly. Bramly arrived at Naqb al-‘Aqaba on 5 January and established a police station with the four Egyptian policemen accompanying him. Britain retaliated in May by rushing additional forces to Egypt and by ordering its Mediterranean fleet to concentrate in Piraeus. The old Separating Administrative Line between the three regions under ostensible Turkish suzerainty became a border between British-controlled Egypt, Palestine and Transjordan. Political realities in the Sinai Peninsula clearly indicated its connection with Egypt at least since the Wajh incident of 1892. This is probably one of the reasons why Egyptian politicians refrained from raising the question of eastern boundary, as they regarded it as an accomplished fact.
