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 . rPtaraf IN COLOR WHILE YOU WAIT L2 S INNip For 4 , OO A ANN REGISTER NOW FOR BEGINNERS PHOTOGRAPHY CLASSES LENS OPENING 353-5330 CPMEP1:13 F. VIDEO WE OISCOUKT OUR PRICES. NOT OUR SERGE Opp T, W, Sat 94; llt., F 94; Sn. 12-5. APPIEGATI MiN • MIDWESTERN at INNSIIR 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 Pay-Once Retirement Plan Keeps Growing Jordan Raider Manager Steven Cross Supervisor Charles Dennis Manager Put $1,000 in our single-premium plan, and double your money in 12 years or less at today's rates. (Interest is guaranteed, dividends are not.) Call for details. Sheldon Moggel Representative LIFE INSURANCE SOCIETY 1600 N. WOODWARD • BIRMINGHAM, MICHIGAN • 48012 John North Representative David Selik Representative Raider-Dennis Agency, 17117 W. Nine Mile, Suite 333, Southfield PHONE 559-2250 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. 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