THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Mid East Strategist Says U.S.' Hesitation
to Commit Itself Raises Doubt in Other Nations
WASHINGTON (JTA)—Dr. Al- our compulsive, anti-militarism is
vin Cottrell, research director of not soon brought to heel, we will
the Georgetown University Center find that American policy objec-
for Strategic Studies and expert tives will have become irrelevant
on superpower strategy in the Mid- because we will be without the
dle East, told the Jewish Telegraph means of implementing them."
The State -Department refused to
Agency after his testimony before
the House Foreign Relations Com- comment on a New York Times
mittee that "The U.S. has weak- story that recent escalated ship-
ened itself to the point where it is ments of the latest Soviet MIGs to
unable to get its Allies to accept its Syria and Egypt upsets the mili-
guarantees."
tary balance in the Mid East.
The department spokesman as-
Cottrell contended that the 'U.S.'
unwillingness to commit itself sured reporters that the U.S. has
akes nations like Israel feel that a long-standing commitment to
he U.S. will not honor Its prom- keep the military balance in the
ises. Cottrell maintained that in region. But he refused to give the
both a military and diplomatic details of how the administration
sense, the Israelis do not feel sure would implement its policy.
of American guarantees.
The spokesman refused to
He added that American delays comment on charges by Israel
in replying to Israeli arms requests Defense Minister Moshe Dayan
is further proof of "American un- last Saturday that Israel did not
willingness to go on the line to have a regular flow of arms
from the U.S. because Egyptian
support Israel."
pressure
on Washington not to
"It is another of our inadequate
supply Israel with war planes.
•commitment" to Israel, he said.
State Department officials how-
Cottrell attributed it to a long-
developing trend to shy away from ever confirmed the Times story,
military involvement with other which included particulars of So-
countries rather than to specific viet aid to Egypt and Syria.
According to the Times, the UAR
policies of any administration.
Rep. Edward J. Derwinski, Illi- received nearly 100 MIG-21s since
nois Republican, addressing the the cease fire went into effect in
Near East subcommittee of the August 1970, with delivery of eight
House Foreign Affairs Committee, in June 1971 alone, as well as SO
said the Suez Canal probably will transport helicopters, including 16
not be open for 10 or 15 years in June. The Times reported
because "Egypt is not strong Syrian shipments at a total of 21
enough in the world of Arab emo- of the latest model MIG-21s, nine
tionalism to make a separate set- older MIG-17s, and five Sukhoi
7 fighter-bombers and 22 MIG-8
tlement with Israel."
helicopters.
(He told the hearing on the im-
Intelligence experts quoted by
plicatio•s of the reopening of the
the Times interpreted the supply
Suez Canal that the Arabs cannot
agree on a total package and no of the helicopters to mean that the
USSR has decided to provide the
one leader is strong enough to take Arabs with greater mobility in
independent action.)
desert or mountain warfare.
Later, in a speech prepared
Sen. Bob Packwood (R. Ore.)
for delivery to the National
told the JTA in an interview Fri-
Press Club Tuesday, Sen. James
day that military aid to Israel
L. Buckley (Conservative, NY)
should be handled "with the same
said unless the U.S. develops quiet commitment and lack of fan-
new conventional weapons, it fare as military aid to Turkey."
will not have the capability to
He criticized the Nixon adminis-
resist Soviet aggression in the
tration for "keeping Israel on ten-
Middle East or elsewhere.
terhooks" about the future of mili-
He told the group that the new tary supplies and said that the
Soviet MIG-23s recently delivered military aid should be separated
to Egypt and Syria "can outshoot totally from the Mid East negotia-
and out-maneuver anything the tions. He vehemently disapproved
Israelis have." He added that the of using military aid as a bargain-
U.S. is powerless to do anything ing chip in any negotiations, add-
because it has nothing in its ar- ing, "We don't make Turkish
senal that can challenge the latest military aid contingent on their
MIG.
closing the Dardenelles to Soviet
He urged the continued develop- military movements.T
ment of the F-14 Tomcat "which
Packwood criticized the State
is the only aircraft competitive Department_401 "Oushing the Is-
with the MIG which we are in a raelis „tand,'.A-rabto some conclu-
position to deliver to the,Itayy„44 sidti- wiii*Atio'i§t a
. te Department
reasonable early cUte;i14,.
IllihW*Aat:IdagtOry."
Buckley deplored the :.,Conclition .
the:;,STata. of present nego-
.
of the .611.-- Fleet .Nrhose.Jaffectrte- -, flatiphsc,
fori-an iterim settlement
ness as arf:insttinnent Of American ..iiireOPen the Suez Canal, Pack-
policy is being.rechiCed to .the Van-. wo9d1610 the JTA that he "cannot
Akishirit point." He :contin u ed,
believe:that Donald Bergus (the
top American diplomat in Cairo)
circulated a memo on his own per-
sonal whim or on his own initiative
without' telling his superiors" as
claimed by the State Department.
He added that white an interim
settlement was still possible, he
hoped the State Department would
not use the military aid to Israel
to force her into one.
On thes geography of a possible
permanent settlement, Packwood
said that the east bank of the
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Israeli interests if she could retain
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access to the desert. He said that
Sharm el-Sheikh was "paramount"
and although Jerusalem was a
complex emotional issue, he did
not see it as vital to Israel's
security interests.
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Mid East Weaponry Reaching
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TEL AVIV (JTA)—The head of
"Rafael"—Israel's armaments de-
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velopment authority—said that the
level of weapons deployed in the
Middle East, which lagged for
years a generation behind those of
the Superpowers, is now approach-
ing their level.
According to Dr. Zeev Bonen,
addressing the fifth conference on
mechanical engineering in Haifa,
this means that Israel cannot af-
ford to fall behind in research and
development of weapons systems.
Finance Minister Pinhas Sapir
told visiting American trade union
leaders that he planned to go to
Washington at the end of Septem-
ber to seek further U.S. govern-
ment aid.
Israel's request for another
$200,000,000 in aid is under con-
sideration by the U.S. government,
Sapir was told by Dr. John A.
Hanna h, administrator of the
Agency for International Develop-
ment, a branch of the U.S. State
Department.
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