Friday, April 19, 1974-15
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By CHARLOTTE DUBIN
The League of Arab States
sent a special envoy to the
United States to bring a new
message of peace and under-
standing. But in his address
before the Economic Club of
Detroit Monday afternoon,
Clovis Maksoud brought an
old Arab message couched
in pretty English:
"The existence of Israel as
an exclusively Jewish state
is an intellectual anachronism
served by modern technol-
ogy."
Some 500 members of the
club and their wives, as well
as guests from the Jewish
and Arab communities, were
present at the luncheon, held
in the Veterans Memorial
Building. One observer noted
that this would not be con-
sidered a good crowd; Cabo
Hall is reserved for drawing-
card speakers.
IVIaksoud, who was intro-
duced by Congresswoman
Martha Griffiths as a "Middle
East intellectual," has been
in this country for three
months in an effort to ex-
plain the Arab side of the
Middle East conflict. He is
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Information Center of the ical maneuver by the Arab
League of Arab States in states—and the decision by
the Organization of Oil-Pro-
Washington, D. C.
Bright (he is senior editor ducing Countries to raise the
of Beirut's daily, An-Nahar) price of crude oil.
The latter was strictly an
and ingratiating (he served
as Arab League ambassador economic measure, he said;
to India and Southeast Asia the resulting oil wealth is
for five years), Maksoud needed to develop "our insti-
stressed to his Detroit audi- tutional infrastructure" in
ence the importance of bus- "third world" Arab countries.
iness contacts with the Arab Maksoud said it will require
states and invited the for- $22,000,000,000 in investment
in the Arab countries to raise
mation of a trade mission.
He appealed for an end to the per capital income of the
the "misunderstanding" of Arabs to $100. "You have an
the past and a new era of ocean of affluence with em-
"affection" and "understand- barrassing pockets of pover-
ing" between the Arab states ty," he said, "while we have
an ocean of poverty with em-
and America.
barrassing pockets of afflu-
But when it came to Is- ence."
rael, the story had not
(Although Maksoud empha-
changed.
sized the consensus, the
Maksoud spelled out his "communality of destiny," of
objection to Israel as a Jew- the Arab peoples, he did not
ish state: "That description suggest that the new oil
entails discrimination against wealth be used to alleviate
non-Jews. I wouldn't feel hu- the plight of the Palestinian
manly comfortable when I refugees, whose sorry state
see discrimination institu- he blamed on Israel.)
tionalized."
Maksoud said the October
He admitted that discrimi- war "introduced new situa-
nation is practiced in "many tions" in the Mideast. While
of our Arab countries" but the Arabs did not achieve a
"so do you in America." (Sev- decisive military victory, "we
eral guests took exception to did achieve a defeat of the
the comparison, noting that 196'7 defeat. It became nec-
the persecution of the rem- essary for Israel to recon-
nant of Jews in Syria is not cile itself to our capacity to
comparable to discrimina- be equal."
tion practiced in this coun-
The second important re-
try. But the kind of ques- sult of the war, he said, was
tioning permitted at the Ec- that Israel, which had "posed
onomic Club luncheon—ques- as a protector of American
tions prepared on cards in interests in the Middle East,
advance — didn't allow for now showed itself to be in
any challenge to the speak- need of American protec-
er.)
tion."
Maksoud went on: "The
Maksoud suggested that
.Palestinians are saying no the U.S. "exercise its cred-
Jew in Israel today, irre- ible leverage on Israel" so
spective of the reasons he the latter "would cease to
came, no Jew should be dis- conceive of itself as privi-
qualified from that area be- leged." He said that the Arab
cause he is a Jew. But he states do not consider the
should not be entitled to ad- U.S. policy balanced when it
ditional privileges because equates a population of 25,-
he is a Jew." Maksoud added 000,000 with a country of 3,-
that one fact "not well 000,000. However, on this
known" is that "many Jews score, he said he was confi-
in Israel are Arabs."
dent of a new era of under-
He held out little hope for standing with the United
Mideast negotiations as long States and its "most distin-
as Israel sees withdrawal guished secretary of state,"
from occupied territory and Henry Kissinger.
the issue of the Palestinian
refugees as items for con-
cession. The Arabs look upon Harassed Yeshiva
these as "recognized Arab Journal Wins Prize
rights," he said. "The word
NEW YORK (JTA) — An
negotiation is a palatable English-Yiddish journal pub-
word to bestow on Israel a lished by a student commit-
form of further procrastina- tee for Yiddish at the Flat-
tion," he said.
bush Yeshiva in Brooklyn,
In response to a query on over the strong opposition of
the use of the oil embargo the yeshiva administration,
weapon, Maksoud comment- has received a first place
ed: "If Israel keeps on pro- award in the 50th annual
crastinating—and if the Unit- contest of the Columbia
ed States doesn't dissociate Scholastic Press Association,
itself from Israel's procrasti- an affiliate of Columbia Uni-
nation—the oil embargo will versity. The CSPA is the
central organization for stu-
be an effective option."
But, he added, he has rea- dent publications in the
son to believe that "the Unit- United States.
ed States will not associate
Aleichem Sholem won first
with Israel's procrastination, place in the annual news-
so the question is academic." magazine contest in nation-
Maksoud insisted that the wide competition, according
oil embargo should be viewed to David Kotz, founder and
as simply a "strike weapon" editor-in-chief. The Student
that was imposed "as an in- Committee for Yiddish has
centive to bring about an end been using the publication in
to the blackout with regard a campaign to get Yiddish
to the Arab basic position." into the curriculum of the
He differentiated between yeshiva.