Arens Blames U.S. for M.E. Arms Race
NEW YORK (JTA) —
Moshe Arens, chairman of
the Knesset's Foreign Af-
fairs and Security Commit-
tee, accused the United
States of initiating a "Mid-
dle East arms race" by sup-
plying modern weaponry to
Egypt and Saudi Arabia. He
also claimed that the U.S. is
"pressuring Israel to 'solve'
the Palestinian problem
through a return to the 1967
border" so that Washington
can "prove its good faith to
the Arabs."
Arens, a Likud hawk who
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voted against the Camp
David accords in the Knes-
set, made his remarks at a
meeting of the Conference
of Presidents of Major
American Jewish Organ-
izations two weeks ago. He
charged that the Ifer-I
mulators of American
foreign policy are commit-
ting a grave error if they be-
lieve arming Egypt, Jordan
and Saudi Arabia will
stabilize an "inherently un-
stable Arab world."
Arens said "U.S. and Is-
raeli interests in the
Mideast are identical" but
"because of the widespread
belief that 'Jerusalem is in
America's pocket anyway,"
Israel is being treated at
arms length while Egypt
and Saudi Arabia are being
wooed with advanced arms
— 75 F-15 jets for Egypt, 80
F-16 jets for Saudi Arabia;
800 armored personnel car-
riers and 900 tanks for
Egypt."
According to Arens,
the net result of "the
American-initiated Mid-
dle East arms race" was
that "Israel must in-
crease its military spend-
ing to counter the huge
increase in weaponry
now or soon to be in Arab
hands from both the U.S
and from the Soviets."
Arens, who is visiting the
U.S., made similar remarks
in an address earlier to an-
other group of Jewish lead-
ers at American Jewish
Committee headquarters.
Claiming that Israel is
America's only consistent
ally in the Middle East, he
maintained that a U.S. pol-
icy which ignored Israel was
based on illusory thinking.
However, he said he wel-
comed the growing aware-
ness in this country of the
menace of Soviet aggression
in the Middle East.
"What is good for the
United States is good for Is-
rael," he declared, "and
similarly, what is in Israel's
security interest benefits
the United States."
He warned against wo-
oing the Arabs and other
Moslem states beacuse
"most Middle Easterr•coun-
tries are inherently un-
stable and have no com-
mitment to democracy and
Western interests and
ideals." Consquently, he
said, an American policy
that provides such countries
with large quantities of
sophisticated arms risks
having those arms fall into
unfriendly hands without
any assurance that they
would be used in defense of
American interests.
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Bleak Future for Latin Jews
TEL AVIV (ZINS) — A
pessimistic portrait of the
Jewish communities in
Latin America was drawn
recently by Mordecai
Dayen, chairman of the
Executive of the World
Union of General Zionists.
Dayen, a native of Argen-
tina, stated in an interview
that the second and third
generations are increas-
ingly alienated from the
Jewish state, and are
caught up in a steady proc-
ess of assimilation.
Dayen noted that the
Zionist movement there in
all of its manifestations is
experiencing a marked de-
cline; having become, for all
practical purposes, only a
facade of Israeli emissaries,
officials, and budgets.
Latin American Jews
seem to have money for
everything except
Jewish education, he
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said. The material condi-
tion of the Jews has never
been better, despite the
galloping inflation.
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therefore, Dayen adds, that
the climate and prospects
for a mass immigration to
Israel are bleak. In 1979
aliya from Latin America
fell by 10 percent, while the
overall number of shlikhim
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