THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
8 Friday, August 11, 1919
Oil Blackmail Is Affecting Israel's International Friendships
(Continued from Page 1)
The change in Bonn's
attitude to Jerusalem is a
regrettable political reality.
Something will have to be
said about it. But at the
moment much more than
German-Israeli relations is
at stake. It is time to raise
the alarm, for not only the
work for peace is in danger,
launched by the two
courageous statesmen
Menahem Begin and Anwar
el Sadat, but Israel's very
existence is threatened to a
degree seldom seen since
the founding of the Jewish
state 31 years ago.
Israel's existence is
endangered politically
by the policy more or less
practiced by all Western
states, a policy of ap-
peasement and align-
ment towards the radical
Arab camp . Concern
about oil is the prime
mover. And Israel be-
comes ever more vulner-
able militarily because of
unprecedented increase
in armaments in all its
neighbor states, arma-
ments in which the West-
ern powers collaborate
just as much as the
Soviets.
The so-called Arab front
states especially receive
arms in great quantities.
And today these countries
are drawing better arms
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from the West than from the
East bloc. Financing is
mostly by long-term, low-
interest credits or by pay-
ments from Saudi Arabia.
Jordan, for instance, is
now to receive 275 modern
British Chieftain tanks and
310 M-60 tanks from the
U.S. France has already ,
supplied or firmly promised
large numbers of Mirage
aircraft. Saudi Arabia is
paying for Jordan's ,orders.
Both Iraq and Syria re-
ceive ultra-modern Scud
medium-range rockets from
Russia. In the Persian Gulf,
Baghdad has conceded the
naval base a Umm Qasr to
the Soviets in return for
Nanushka frigates armed
with SS-N-9 rockets, of
which Algeria already pos-
sesses several. With
Damascus, Baghdad has
formed a joint supreme
military command.
Like Jordan, Iraq is
also to receive Mirage
aircraft in addition to its
large MiG contingent.
Baghdad's arms requests
to France fall on willing
ears and go into billions.
Libya already has an
immense Mirage force.
Syria obtains more and
more Miian anti-tank roc-
kets developed in German-
French collaboration. They
have already been used by
Syrian troops against
Christian residential areas
in Beirut. And while Syria
remains as Moscow's closest
ally in the entire region, the
improved electronic devices
for these weapons are re-
ceived from the West. Once
again, Saudia Arabia pays
the bills.
(A marginal remark:
Syria, which deploys its
heavily armed forces in
Lebanon as the "protective"
pOwer for the terrorist PLO
against the Christians, re-
ceives further credit aid
from Bonn: This year 130
million marks ($65 million).
Of course this is meant to
build a power station and
modernize agriculture. In
the West German capital
the word is that one must
court Syria so as to draw it
into the peace making proc-
ess one day. So far though
the opposite has occurred.
When will we finally cease
throwing our millions into
the jaws of countries whose
aim is the destruction of our
friends? Or is Israel no
longer our friend?)
Although Saudi Arabia is
not a front state, its gigantic
increase in armaments
must cause concern. As it
used to in Iran, Washington
is now pumping Saudi
Arabia's army and the Be-
douin National Guard (to-
taling 70,000) full with
modern weapon systems.
Within aircraft range of
Israel, Western firms are
building with German
collaboration, three huge
military bases in Saudi
Arabia, with airfields,
underground arms
dumps and all supply in-
stallations.
The military town of
Tabuk in the north is almost
completed, Karj, near the
capital Riad, is under con-
struction, as is Batin in the
North East.
Of course it is known in
Saudi Arabia that in the
next five to 10 years they
cannot deploy modern war
material such as the F-15
aircraft, not even service it
themselves. Not only pilots
are lacking. Every squad-
ron of F-15s — 18 planes —
needs highly-qualified serv-
ice personnel totaling 273
men. For the time being, the
Americans are supplying
all this, and accordingly the
subtle calculation is this:
If a new war breaks out
between the Arab front
states and Israel, the very
presence of the American
experts, including pilots
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will protect Saudi Arabia
against potential Israeli re-
prisals. On the other hand,
Saudi Arabia can, with im-
punity, deliver ultra-
modern arms from its own
stocks to the warring states.
If Saudi Arabia now
receives Mirages as well,
as is intended, it will be-
come a gigantic store for
reinforcements to Syria,
Jordan, Libya and Iraq.
From the U.S., Saudi
Arabia has since the Yom
Kippur War in 1973 re-
ceived weapon systems
worth $10 billion; new
orders for similar
amounts have already
been placed.
Thus, Saudi Arabia fi-
nances its own excessive
arms build-up as well as
that of the Arab front states.
But the F-5 jets which
Washington promised to
Cairo cannot be delivered
because Saudi Arabia has
stopped all financial sup-
port for Egypt. The result is
that the West shares in the
pan-Arab boycott against
the only state which has
ventured to make peace
with Israel.
The disproportionate
arms build-up by Israel's
adversaries — comparable
with that in the Warsaw
Pact states, which exceeds
all proportions — naturally
also forces Jerusalem to
ever greater escalations in
its military build-up. This is
the main cause of the gal-
loping inflation attacking
the economy of the Holy
Land.
However, Israel is still
militarily superior to its
neighbors and potential ad-
versaries, mainly thanks to
clockwork organization,
better trained soldiers of all
ranks and services and
higher fighting morale. But
the weights are shifting, the
danger grows from day to
day. Instead of military
support for its opponents,
Israel needs political help
from the West, which is just
what it lacks. From all sides
comes facile criticism, while
at the same time Israel's
adversaries move up in the
political scale.
This applies especially
to the PLO, which day
after day commits acts of
terrorism, against Is-
raelis — even if it is
"only" with Katyusha
rockets on towns like
Metulla or Beit Shean,
shot from military posts
hidden in villages in
south Lebanon, from
which UN forces are sup-
posed to hold armed
Palestinians at a dis-
tance.
The promotion of the
PLO, fostered especially by
France and repeatedly
propagated by many offi-
cials in the State Depart-
ment, was raised to a
world-wide spectacle by the
meeting in Vienna of the
Austrian Chancellor Bruno
Kriesky, Willy Brandt (as
chairman of the Socialist
International) and the PLO
chief Yasir Arafat. This ac-
tivity of the chairman of the
West German Social Demo-
cratic Party (SPD) natur-
ally gave its coalition
partners in the smaller FDP
(Free Democrats) no rest. So
now a prominent rising
young man of the FDP must
make official contact with
Arafat. Since the visits by
Foreign Minister and FDP
chief Hans-Dietrich
Genscher to Libya, Saudi
Arabia and Iraq, Herr
Jurgen Mollemann meets
Arafat in Beirut, naturally
with the help of the German
Ambassador there.
However, Mollemann
will not call on Christian
politicians in Beirut, al-
though they are the very
people who could give him
eye-witness accounts of how
the PLO fought in the
Lebanese civil war as part-
ner of the Left front, or of
how the Palestinians de-
stroyed the equilibrium be-
tween Moslems and Chris-
tians in formerly demo-
cratic Lebanon, and of how
the Palestinians today are
still fighting a war of de-
struction against the Chris-
tians living in the south of
Lebanon.
It would be no bad thing if
Herr Mollemann was given
this object lesson in Leba-
non. For the benevolent lis-
tener in the West is re-
peatedly told that the PLO's
political aim is a tolerant
Arab state of many peoples
and many religions. The na-
ture of such tolerance has
been plainly demonstrated
in Lebanon. Tolerance and
the PLO are mutually ex-
clusive terms. People must
know this and act accord-
ingly.
Despite this, the two
West German govern-
ment parties go hand in
hand in promoting the
PLO, while the Govern-
ment itself holds back.
Klaus Bolling, the official
spokesman, says that
talks at government level
will not be possible until
the PLO shows beyond
doubt "that it is prepared
in the proceSs of working
out a comprehensive
peace settlement to rec-
ognize the existence of Is-
rael." As if there were
anything to work out!
Bolling should have said:
"So long as the PLO refuses
to recognize the existence of
the state of Israel and fails
expressly to put out of force
the so-called Palestinian
National Covenant, in
which the destruction of Is-
rael is the material pro-
grammatic point, we will
take up no form of contact
with this organization, and
the government also
plores the contacts while
prominent members of the
government parties hare
made."
But such clear words are
only heard from Bonn
against Israel, not against
its enemies.
If one reads over what fias
been written recently on the
problems in the Middle
East, it can all be reduced to
the simple formula: Israel
must give up its settlements
policy and withdraw from
all occupied areas. Then a
Palestinian state will arise
in Cis-Joidania and in the
Gaza Strip, and peace and
order will prevail.
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