38—Friday, January 3, 1975 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS German Defends Meeting Arafat t ..4 • 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, Prestrtption • Another distractive set of Optical Co t ! 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 260C; COOuDGE As you look at a man, so P4PK the past year, for another trading off their deficit's by 543 3343 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 398-7211 tries, Libya, Saudi Arabia) moment it is in control of cANdids • MOVIES • pORTRAITS '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 O FOR PRE-TEENS AND JUNIORS 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 B ($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 OAK PARK So the Arabs are buying own imperialist or capitalist 23133 COOLIDGE into land and businesses in countries. At the UN, Arafat NORTH OF 9 MILE RD. the capitalist world. They talked of overturning Israel. OPEN THURSDAYS PHONE 545-3242 ( .; Contention is like fire; for both burn so long as there is 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- Weddings - Bar Mitzvah ceals it. Social Events All this is not to say that Israel is 100 percent right 647-5731 in its acts, or wrong, or that Eves. and Weds. the United States, as Tom Jack Drapkin Wicker recently pointed out in the Times, is completely 851-2671 guilty' of the very thing Am- Over 30 Years. 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. 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