38—Friday, January 3, 1975 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
German Defends Meeting Arafat
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The World's New Imperialism—Oil
By JACK SIE'GEL
cannot buy into the Commu-
In the following article, nist countries.
BONN (JTA) — Returning gerous than many people
But on top of this they
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
from talks in Egypt and Sy- imagine."
want
guarantees that their
reporter
Jack
Siegel
de-
ria, Dr. Gerhard Schroeder,
It was essential, he said,
chairman of the Bundestag to take stock of the situation scribes the parties and prob- invested monies will not be
Foreign Policy Committee on the spot, and to exchange lems created by the world's affected by the inflation their
and former foreign minister, views with leaders in that newest imperialistic force ... very policies are causing.
Since they have the oil and
said his meeting with Pales- area. He said the PLO was oil.
First, there is the OPEC are organized, enter a new
tine Liberation Organization "a factor in the Middle East
leader Yasir Arafat was in- conflict that cannot be ig- or Organization of Petroleum phenomenon in the picture:
tended "to serve cooperation nored." He could not see any Exporting Countries, 13 in something ugly called car-
tels. Cartels is another form
among all concerned," be- danger of his meeting with all, and with the exception of
imperialism, or here the
cause "without cooperation Arafat being misused for of Venezuela, in either the new
imperialism.
Middle East or Africa.
in the Middle East, a lasting, propaganda purposes.
What else? The Shah in-
On
the
other
side
are
the
just and constructive peace
Schroeder refused to di-
vites American professionals
is not possible."
vulge who had arranged the consumer countries, which is - to- build his economy so he
everybody else in Europe
The meeting with Arafat meeting with Arafat.
and Japan. The Communist can buy into German auto
was criticized by the Ger-
He added that he had not countries seem to have works and maybe Lockheed
man Jewish community and
and still did not require the enough of the stuff to man- here. To offset that, Ameri-
the Israeli Embassy here.
•approval of his Party — the
Schroeder described the sit- Christian Democrats—for his age but they are led by the can universities are now
uation in the Middle East as meeting with Arafat. Schroe- Soviet Union and stand to a seeking Arab petro-dollars-
"more complicated and dan- der informed the Bonn gov- side watching the big show. and American banks are lit-
The OPEC has raised the erally "swarming" into the
ernment on his talks in Cairo price of oil enormously since Middle East, according to
and Damacus. The Bunde- the Yom Kippur War and the New York Times.
stag is scheduled to debate after a meeting in Vienna,
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Another distractive set of
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the situation in the Middle just ended, have decided to facts that the oil companies
East.
maintain the price level, al- are making huge profits, or
ready raised 400 percent in that consuming countries are
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As
you
look
at
a
man,
so
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the past year, for another trading off their deficit's by
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he appears.
nine months.
selling producing countries
There has been talk of gun- arms, thus exacerbating the
boat diplomacy, of having Middle East tensions, or even
the larger and stronger coun- that only 10 percent of the
Casual
tries using military force to U.S. oil needs are supplied
replace the people in OPEC by the OPEC, will only take
Family
countries now in control with our eye off the ball.
It is a convenient ploy by
others more congenial and
Portraits
which the Arabs guess they
amenable.
But astride that thought is can ease Israel out. What is
the Soviet Union, anti-impe- Israel's capital? What raw
rialist champion committed materials and resources does
sANdy FRiEdMAN phoTogRAphy
to support the underdog (re- it possess? It has people; it
actionary feudal Arab coun- has reclaimed land. At the
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tries, Libya, Saudi Arabia) moment it is in control of
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'and that if we or one of our an area (Sinai) which pro-
trading partners moves in, duces 65 percent of its own
we will have war with the domestic oil needs.
But if Israel were lifted
.Soviets.
bodily out of the Middle East
Even the Arabs don't quite and placed in the middle of
want that. They want 'us to the Atlantic, the same oil
meet with them while they problem would continue. The
ease out the companies of OPEC countries would still
England, U.S., Holland and want to ease out the foreign
France which heretofore companies or use them as
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owned or controlled the oil managers. They would still
of the OPEC.
want to increase the price
Then the Arabs want to of oil. They would still want
consider recycling the money their investments guaranteed
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($65 billion in unspent cash against inflation.
this year) by which this
The double irony is that
money is lent to other coun- along comes Arafat, a self-
tries at an interest which the styled revolutionary. Revolu-
Arabs, whose religion for- tionaries traditionally are
bids it, call commission.
committed to overturn their
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So the Arabs are buying own imperialist or capitalist
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into land and businesses in countries. At the UN, Arafat
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the capitalist world. They talked of overturning Israel.
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Contention is like fire; for
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Did he once mention point- any exhaustible matter to
ing that gun at the reaction- contend with.—Thomas Ad-
ary and profit-minded Arab ams
countries? And then distrib-
ute the proceeds among the
dispossessed?
His failure to do so signi-
Photography
fies his real intent, or con-
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All this is not to say that
Israel is 100 percent right
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in its acts, or wrong, or that
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the United States, as Tom
Jack Drapkin
Wicker recently pointed out
in the Times, is completely
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guilty' of the very thing Am-
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bassador Scali levelled at
the new (imperialist) major-
ity in the UN.
Two, or even three wrongs
do not make a right. The
point of this is simply to say
that Israel has nothing to do
with the oil problem, outside
of the fact it happens to re-
side in the area.
And if somebody is not
careful, something ' will hap-
pen between the old and new
imperialisms, and it might
be that socialism will hap-
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NEW YORK—Secretary of
State Henry Kissinger has
topped the Gallup Poll's
most-admired-men list for
the second year in a row.
At the same time, People
and Ti me magazines chose
their year's notables from the
list of Arab personalities who
have gained worldwide recog-
nition this year.
People, a weekly magaZine
published by Time-Life, Inc.,
has named Yasir Arafat,
head of the Palestine Libera-
tion Organization, one of the
25 "most intriguing" persons
of 1974.
People's editors said Ara-
fat was selected because he
"gained new status as a
`stateless head of state' and
remains secure as head of
the PLO thanks largely to his
`carefully staged UN appear-
ance.' "
Meanwhile, Time Magazine
announced that King Faisal
has been: chOsen as its man
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of the year, and a photo of
the Saudia Arabian chief
adorns the Jan. 1 issue of the
publication.
People also named Joseph
Hirshhorn, the 75-year-old
Jewish millionaire, who in
1974 was responsible for the
opening in Washington of the
museum housing the $100
million art collection he gave
the U. S.; Valerie Harper, a
non-Jewish actress who plays
`Rhoda," a top-ranked new
TV show; and Erica Jong, a
32-year-old New York writer
whose novel "Fear of Fly-
ing," a chronicle of a New
York "Jewish Princess,"
has become what the maga-
zine described as the femin-
ist movement's' author of the
year.
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