Denial of Rights Termed Contrary to Judaism

How Arabs Practice Humaneness to Their Own

MONTREAL—Basic human
rights are being violated on
every continent and in every
region of the world, a Nobel
Prize-winning authority on
international law declared
here.
These violations,'he added,
must arouse a particularly
strong reaction from Jews,
the first people in the mod-
ern world to teach that the
importance of the individual
and his right to life were the

The Arabs, with all their
wealth, fail humanely even to
their own needy. An expose
of their lack of humaneness
appeared in a New York
Times Op-Ed Page article by
Chester L. Cooper, a Fellow
of the Woodrow Wilson Inter-
national Center for Scholars,
under the title "Oil Billions
for the Few, Sand for the
Starving." He stated in part:
By the grace of Allah, a
few Middle Eastern nations
have become rich beyond
even the wildest dreams of
the fabled potentates of an-
cient Araby. Through little
effort of their own, 55,000,000
people—or, more accurately,
their leaders—of Saudi Ara-
bia, Kuwait, Iran, Iraq, Abu
Dhabi, Qatar and Libya
"earned" $16,000,000,000 in
1973 and are expected to
"earn" almost $65,000,000,000
this year. The spice trade
was but salt and pepper com-
pared with commerce in
black gold.
The roll of the dice and the
leaders' greed have combined
to raise havoc with the ener-
gy-intensive, interdependent
economies of Western Eur-
ope, Japan and the United
States and to jeopardize the
development prospects of
scores of coutries in Africa,
Latin America and Asia.
Meanwhile, life goes on, at
least for some — the lucky
ones whose only urgent need
is oil. But millions of Africans
are facing another, more ter-
rifying crisis. They are dying
of thirst and hunger. Un-
known thousands have per-
ished over the last year and
scores of thousands have
fled from baked fields and
destroyed herds to rot slowly
away in unfamiliar, frighten-
ing cities.
On his return recently from
the sub-Sahara region of Af-
rica, Secretary-General Wald-
heim of the United Nations
was aghast at what he had
witnessed. "P e o p 1 e s and
countries could disappear
from the face of the map,"
he said. "This region has not
seen such a disaster in two
centuries."

brought together more than
100 judges, lawyers, academi_,
cians, political scientists and
human rights specialists
from the United States,
Canada, France, Mexico and
Israel.
The colloquium was spon-
sored jointly by the Jacob
Blaustein Institute for the
Advancement of Human
Rights of the American Jew-
ish Committee, the Canadian
Jewish Congress, the Con-
sultative Council of Jewish
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Rights.
The Middle East, Cassin
said, is suffering under the
oppression of "hardly mask-
ed slavery of entire popula-
tions under the heavy hand
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He accused the nations of
Africa of imposing dictator-
ships under the pretexts that
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nomic development and that
"democracy is a luxury that
is difficult to extend to al-
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that tribal conflicts in Africa
have resulted in "genocide
or the imposition of slavery
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He stressed that Jews
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fundamental values of civil-
ization.
Rene Cassin, president of
the International Institute of
Human Rights, headquarter-
ed in Paris, and president of
the Alliance Israelite Uni-
verselle, made his remarks
in the keynote speech of a
three-day colloquium on
"J udaism and Human
Rights" at McGill University
here.
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Golda Meir's Will:
Dramatic Statement

JERUSALEM (ZINS) — In
an emotional and dramatic
meeting with the Knesset
delegation of her Labor
Party, Premier Golda Meir
explained that she was re
signing from office because
of widespread public dis-
satisfaction with- the regime.
She told her colleagues of a
sealed envelope containing
her last will and testament.
"I am prepared right now
to reveal some of its con-
tents," Golda added, citing
these excerpts: "I ask that
no eulogies be delivered;
that no streets or institutions
be named after me, because
all this will not help."
Speaking at an assembly
of the Hebrew University in
Jerusalem, Golda Meir said:
"I can understand why you
don't want a 76-year-old as
your prime minister." She
chided those who are un-
happy with the country's
leadership to come forward
with a positive program of
their own and went on to say
that although "there are
many demobilized soldiers
among the demonstrators,
Israel is one place where a
military putsch is out of the
question."

The international communi-
ty, or rather a part of it, has
not remained unconcerned.
Approximately $350,000,000 in
aid—food, money and serv-
ices (not including airlifts)—
have been contributed to the
stricken countries of Senegal,
Mali, Mauritania, Chad, Ni-
ger and Upper Volta. Of this,
the United States, despite
domestic problems, has con-
tributed more than a third.
The European Economic
Community, racked by bal-
ance - of - payment problems
and inflation, has contributed
slightly less than a third.
The United Nations and its
subsidiaries, not including the
Food and Agriculture Organ-
ization, has given approxi-
mately 7 per cent. The FAO
has provided separate assist-
ance, largely from American
and European contributions.
France, eWst Germany, Can-
ada, China, Nigeria and the
Soviet Union have made up
the remainder.
On rereading the roster of
contributors, one has the feel-
ing that it must be incom-
plete. Are there not some
countries missing? Some of
the very rich, perhaps? Some
Moslem countries, since most
of the stricken people south
of the Sahara are also Mos-
lems? Some fellow African
countries, possibly? We had
better review the official
data.
Strictly speaking, three
countries were overlooked:
Libya contributed $760,000 —
from the $2,200,000,000 it col-
lected in oil revenues last
year. Kuwait contributed
$300,000—from the $2,130,000,-
000 of its oil earnings in 1973.
But what of Saudi Arabia,
which earned twice as much
as Libya? Not a dollar in
1973, and only $2,000,000 so
far this year.
And Iraq, which earned as
much as Kuwait? Not a pen-
ny. Abu Dhabi, which earned
over $7,000,000,000, or about
$23,000 for every one of its
inhabitants? Nothing. And
Qatar, which earned almost
$400,000,000, or about $2,600
per capita? Zero. Bahrain?

Zero. Algeria? Another zero.
And what of Iran, with al-
most $4,000,000,000 in oil rev-
enues in 1972 and $15,000,000,-
000 projected for this year?
A further zero.
Altogether, then, the Mid-
dle Eastern oil-exporting na-
tions have contributed less
than 1 per cent of the total
aid to the starving people
south of the Sahara.
This is not to say that they
remained entirely aloof. Not
at all. They raised the price
of oil, not only for the rich
industrial countries but for
the desperately poor ones as
well.
To be sure, the Arab
League, with all deliberate
speed, has been discussing
easing the borrowing terms
and doubling, to about $400,-
000,000, the capital of the
Arab Bank for Economic De-
velopment in Africa. And
there has been talk of prefer-
ential oil prices for some of
the developing countries and
some desultory discussion of
eventually doing something
about the famine. But, mean-
while, by the grace of Allah,
the oil flows out and the bil-
lions flow in. And life goes
on, for some.

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