20 Friday, December 3, 1976 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Arab Propaganda Effort in West Seeks Peace While Military Hardware Stockpiles at Home SHINE CITY 29030 Northwestern at 12 Mile adjacent to TOTAL Station 'By MURRAY ZUCKOFF 352-9230 NEW YORK (JTA) — For the first time since the birth of Israel in 1948, the Arabs are conducting a propaganda campaign in the West that appears to be highly successful. Their so-called peace offensive makes them seem reasonable, en- lightened and, above all, deeply devoted and dedi- cated to peace with Is- rael. They seem to have taken a propaganda morsel from the favorite recipe of television's fa- mous purr-sonality, Morris the cat, and stop- ped pulling their finicky act. Israel, by contrast, is made to appear intransi- gent and recalcitrant, re- sisting at every turn to avoid what the Arabs, especially Egypt, claim to be a serious proposal of peace. The cause of the Jewish state's continuing and consistent search for WINTERIZE YOUR CAR'S FINISH' NOW! 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The media, for example, failed for the most part to report that even as Sadat was cooingly telling a group of Congressmen that he is ready for peace with Israel, he also announced that he would ask the U.S. for additional military hardware just in case Israel decided to get huffy. And while the media was beguilingly reporting about the PLO's "new image" at the United Nations, it for the most part failed to report that at the same time a leading PLO official was saying in Paris that his organization intends to step up activities inside Israel in a "war of libera- tion." Nor has the media and some of the returning congressmen consis- tently related the Arab peace offensive with their intransigent organized hostile anti-Israel posi- tions at the UN, UNESCO and other world forums in which they participate and where they are cer- tain of winning their points by the existence of an automatic majority voting in their favor re- gardless of the issue. But there is, in fact, more to the peace offen- sive than the media's juggling of news, the Con- gressmen's apparent seduction by the siren calls of the Arab prop- agandists and the belated criticism by Israeli politi- cians of Israel's caution but who were themselves leaders of the anti-Arab peace pack before announcing their electoral hopes. The fact is that the Arab confrontation states, especially Egypt, are waging a peace offen- sive abroad, but at the same time retaining a war stance at home in order to keep both options open. There is no question but that the confronta- tion states and the PLO want and need peace at this time in contradis- tinction to opting for peace with Israel as a sovereign Jewish state. All of Israel's neighbors and the PLO are either in political or economic trouble. The key, however, to MURRAY ZUCKOFF the Arab peace offensive — both by the confronta- tion states and some of the oil-rich countries — in relation to Israel and in terms of inter-Arab rival- ries is one of economics. The search for foreign markets for investing petro-dollars and the search for foreign in- vestments in their own economies is stymied by a continuing war atmos- phere. Neither the outward flow of investment capital nor the attraction of foreign- investments is possible as long as the economies are geared for war and national budgets are tied up in military overkill. Nor are invest- ment flows in and out of these countries feasible as long as instability and uncertainty prevails. In addition, the Arabs are beginning to realize that they cannot maintain a top-heavy military estab- lishment without a highly developed economic base. Developing and support- ing such an establishment is very much like trying to build a skyscraper on stilts. Another basic factor is the presumption on the part of the Arabs that the new Administration in Washington will be less willing to continue a pol- icy of excessive expendi- tures for Mideast mili- tary spending in view of the perspective outlined by President-elect Jimmy Carter that the focus must be on America's domestic needs. In short, the oil-rich states are now in the same position as the Western nations: invest or die. Their economies are literally choking to death with an excess of petro-dollars that cannot be siphoned off by buying sprees of mansions, yachts and automobiles. These dollars must find profitable investment markets. The confrontation states must reorganize their tattered economies and cannot hope to do so without foreign loans and investments. For this they need stable eco- nomic and political sys- tems that do not threaten foreign investors with either economic chaos or revolutions. Two events especially, in the past several weeks, confirm the economic basis for thepeace offen- sive. One was the Arab- European business coop- eration symposium at Montreux, Switzerland last month. The other was the visit to Paris by Lawr- ence R. Klein, one of Car- ter's closest economic ad- visors. The Montreux confer- ence, attended by 1,600 bank presidents, bankers, manufacturers, consul- tants and traders from 40 countries, was organized by the European Ma , " agement Forum an sponsored by 100 West European and Middle East banks. David Baird, reporting on this confer- ence for the Belgium- based bi-weekly maga- zine, "To The Point In- ternational," noted that "cooperation was the keynote" of the meeting. This was illustrated by the variety of schemes put forward, including the creation of a technological develop- ment bank, owned and fi- nanced by nationals and governments of develop- ing countries with surplus financial re- sources; a Euro-Arab in- vestment company, shares to be held by the Organization of Petro- leum Exporting Coun- tries and the European Economic Community; and a committee open to all enterprises interested in Arab-European busi- ness which could help broaden business pros- pects. Baird noted, "with so much money floating around — investable surpluses from the oil states is expected to be more than $45 billion this year — everyone had an interest in making the event a success." In addi- tion. to this investable surplus, the European countries are eager to get some of this to help bol- ster their own sagging economies, knock Japan out of the competitive market and hopefully en- hance their own competi- tive stance in the Arab world against the en- croachment of American investments. Burhan Dajani of Jor- dan, secretary general of the Union of Arab Cham- bers of Commerce, made it clear in an interview with the Belgian magazine when he stated: "I would say that the Arab is less suspicious of the Euro- pean than ever before . . It is with the Americap that we have a problen because here we have a complicated situation (economically and politi- cally) . . . But I think the Europeans stand a very good chance of winning the confidence of the Arabs." From the European point of view, Lord Sels- deon, adviser to Britain's Midland Bank; summed up the problem of the con- tinent by stating: "There is a growing realization by the Arabs that, with- out proper cooperation (Continued on Page 21)