THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Friday, January 18, 1980 5 Whirlwind Lurks Behind Saudi Arabian Political Quicksand By LEONARD J. DAVIS In Near East Report James Schlesinger's warning of Saudi instability was echoed in the press last week. The former defense and energy secretary- called the instability "something * Doily—Hospital srnizeirr 40 .111- . • . FRUIT ii: , ---' -- - BASKETS::: *WA% ■ • ' t .,1.,,-, 3 Times Dailyii:: Nation-Wide :•: Delivery . 15 95 RODNICK- :-: McINERNEY'S ::779-4140 772-4350 PARTY-WEDDING-BRIDESMAID-BAR M1TZYA LONG and SHORT DRESSES. 1/2 OFF _S199 GROUP S99 GROUP 159 GROUP '99 $49 '29 oElt ■ E MISSES-ExTRA LARGE SIZES SHAN DELS 154 SOUTH WOODWARD BIRMINGHAM * MI 2-4150 we have been reluctant to discuss" and "far more seri- ous than we have been in- clined to acknowledge." The Washington Star has been the most persistent in- vestigator of the events in the Arabian peninsula last month (November). In a series of articles, the Star reported that the attack on Mecca's Grand Mosque was not the work of religious fanatics but of hundreds of Yemeni and Palestinian- trained guerrillas bent on undermining Saudi leader- ship. The attack "was part of a planned general uprising" directed at capturing Saudi King Khalid who was scheduled to be at the mos- que on the day of the attack, the Star said. The attackers "used Russian AK-47 automatic rifles," the Star reported. "They mutilated the faces of their own dead, appar- ently to prevent identifi- cation. The Mecca inci- dent was a case of fanati- cism, all right, but the political kind may have been more decisive than the religious." 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The blame for not know- ing what goes on in Saudi Arabia, Lubin charged, can be laid at several doorsteps: The press tends to roman- ticize and glamorize" the Saudis; "so-called experts" distort their reports because of Saudi-funded "professo- rial chairs" or because of "sizable business deals;" and U.S. diplomats in the Arab world find their judg- ment frequently "clouded because of the implied promise of a lucrative job in business, or finance, or foundation work or 'consult- ing' that may await comple- tion" of their , tenure. "It is as essential that we truly comprehend the closed society of Saudi Arabia as it is that we comprehend the closed society of Soviet Russia," Lubin wrote. Almost on cue, columnist Carl Rowan illustrated Lu- bin's point. Appearing on "Agronsky and Company" on Dec. 22, Rowan accused his colleagues of distorting the upheavals in Saudi Arabia, claiming that the events were isolated and relatively minor. When asked how he knew, Rowan responded that the Saudi ambassador to the United States had Israeli Experts Downplay Benefits of Normalization By YITZHAK SHARGIL JERUSALEM (JTA) — An expert on Islam and the Arab world indicated last week that Israel should not expect too much from the normalization of relations with Egypt which will be formally instituted this month. Addressing a symposium on the normalization and its limitations, Prof. Emanuel Sivan of the Hebrew Uni- versity, stressed the latter. He also warned that Israel was not keeping abreast of the Palestine Liberation Organization's major prop- aganda campaign to present itself as a more flexible ele- ment in the Middle East dispute, especially to the American public. Sivan said that while the Israeli media has done a creditable job following the development of Israeli- Egyptian relations and re- porting news of the occupied territories, Israeli jour- nalists have not kept up with the decisive shifts now taking place in the operat- ing methods of the PLO. The symposium was conducted on the occa- sion of the award of the second Ted Lurie Prize in journalism, presented this year to Haaretz mili- tary correspondent Zeev Schiff for his series on the attitude of Egyptian mili- tary leaders and other of- ficials toward the peace settlement with Israel. The award is named for the late Ted Lurie, editor of the Jerusalem Post from 1955-1974. Speaking of normaliza- tion, Sivan said many Egyp- tians are apprehensive over a deluge of Israeli tourists. He said deals between enterprising Israelis and Egyptian businessmen are not what Egypt is really in- terested in. That country, needs Western capital and that is something Israel cannot offer it. As for know-how, Sivan pointed out that many Egyptians claim that Israeli know-how is transplanted from the West. so why ob- tain it from the Israelis when it can be obtained from the original source? Another speaker, Meir Yaari, who is Kol Israel Radio's Arab affairs com- mentator, said Egyptians think of normalization in terms of relations with Is- rael, not with Zionism, which is a very important distinction. He said several leading Egyptian jour- nalists still boycott Israel and refuse to set foot on Is- raeli soil. Women Workers JERUSALEM (ZINS) — Israel's Minister of Labor and Social Affairs Israel Katz says women now make up 37 percent of the Israeli work force, up from 31.6 percent in 1977 and 34.5 percent in 1978. • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • told him so and would not mislead him. Lubin charged that "cur- rent American policy toward Saudi Arabia seems to consist mainly in accept- ing whatever the Saudis do, no matter how harmful, or whatever they demand, no matter how outrageous, or in supplying them with enormous quantities of sophisticated weapons. . U.S. arms sales also came under fire from columnist Stanley Kar- now, writing in the Bal- timore Sun. Of Saudi Arabia, "the largest U.S. arms client with pur- chases this year of $5.1 billion," Karnow re- minded his readers that the White House urged Congressional approval of F-15s last year because "the deal was vital to gain Saudi cooperation in the Middle East negotiations. "The Saudis, however, have . . . failed to do any- thing to encourage accom- modation in the Middle East," Karnow added. I OFFICIAL 0 AGENCY 'OMEGA AUTHORIZED SALES & REPAIRS George Ohrenstein Jewelers Ltd. 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