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Where is this refreshing
Utopia?
It is none other than the
Middle East.
It is really an inspiring
story — I mean the idea that
there is a spot where this
terrible plague of un-
employment does not exist.
But there is a problem at-
tached to it.
The story of the labor
shortage, was told the other
day in the financial section
of the New York Times by
YougsPf M. Ibrahim.
All of the oil countries,
he wrote, have ambitious
five-year programs for
quick industrial de-
velopment, but they will
be lucky, he told us, if
they can implement them
in 15, not in five years.
The bottleneck, we were
told, is the shortage of skil-
led labor "from the top
management level down to
the bricklayer."
The oil countries, we were
told further, have already
absorbed two million
foreign laborers, but this is
not enough. "Because of
their limited populations,
such countries as the Un-
ited Arab Emirates, Kuwait
and Saudi Arabia are now
requiring that foreign con-
tractors who bid on major
projects bring their own
labor."
All of this makes one
wonder. Why, if all the
countries complain of li-
mited populations, why
can't they absorb those
Palestinian refugees they
all talk so much about.
They are short of
bricklayers, we were told.
Certainly they can find
among the Palestinian re-
fugees people able to be
bricklayers.
As a descendant of an
old family in the bricklay-
ing trade, I am able to
speak. My ancestors, way
back several thousand
years ago in Egypt, were
in the brick business.
Is it possible that
Pharaoh enslaved the Jews
because only the foreigners
could be taught to be brick
makers?
According to the news-
paper, our Defense Depart-
ment, our own Pentagon, is
helping Saudi Arabia build
a $600 million military
academy.
Wouldn't it be better for
the U.S. to help Saudi
Arabia build a school of
technology so that it could
get the skilled labor it
needs?
One of the first institu-
tions erected by the Zionists
in Israel was such a school
and it was partly because of
this that many Arabs, as
soon as the Zionists began
working, immigrated into
Palestine because that was
the only place they could get
work. The Haifa Technion
helped lay the ground for
this work.
most and it should be said
also that many of these had
immigrated into Israel from
other Arab lands because of
Zionist economic develop-
ment.
Also it should be remem-
bered that about a million
Jews living in Arab coun-
tries after the War for Inde-
pendence fled from the Arab
countries and settled in Is-
rael.
But we come to our main
point — why can't Arab
countries suffering from li-
mited population and need-
ing workers take in more of
these refugees? Why should
they demand that contrac-
tors bring in foreign work-
ers? They discriminate
against their own people.
This is no way for a country
with a limited population to
grow.
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helping provide arms for
Saudi Arabia. Mr. Carter
scoffs at the idea that
these arms are intended
to be used against Israel.
Saudi Arabia, he says,
has never been actively
engaged in any aggres-
sion against Israel. The
New Republic, in a recent
issue, thinks Mr. Carter is
sadly misinformed and
points out that Saudi
Arabia has participated
in three wars against Is-
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Returning to the matter
of the Palestinian refugees,
it is time also to clear up
some of the misinformation
on that subject. We are told
of the 31/2 million Palesti-
nian refugees. The fact is
that at the time of Israel's
War for Independence, only
some 600,000 left. Some put
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NEW YORK (JTA) —
The celebration of Israel's
30th anniversary was
launched in a special as-
sembly at New York's Tem-
ple Emanu-El under the au-
spices of the World Zionist
Organization. But the
celebration was marred by
the tragedy of the March 11
terrorist assault in Israel
and the sense of grief over
the loss of 33 innocent lives.
This - clearly over-
shadowed what was meant
to be a joyful event and a
tribute to the achievements
of the Jewish state in the
last three decades.
Addressing more than
1,000 people, former
Foreign Minister Abbe
Eban said that all- Israelis
are united behind the action
of Israel to root out the
Palestinian terrorists and
their bases in south Leba-
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