THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Envoy to S. Africa Assesses Middle East
By SOLLY PRESS
JOHANNESBERG (JTA)
— Israeli Ambassador
Joseph Harmelin chose the
"Exporter of the Year"
event at Durban's Royal
Hotel, on the edge of the In-
dian Ocean, to provide a
realistic assessment of Is-
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rael's present situation. The
sponsors were the Sunday
Tribune and the South Afri-
can Foreign Trade Organ-
ization.
Harmelin cautioned that
while peace between Israel
and its neighbors would
bring prosperity, "it will not
by itself solve. any of the
burdensome problems of the
Western world. It will not
add one barrel of oil. It will
not make oil cheaper by
even one cent."
He explained, "The sup-
ply of oil and its prices is
determined by economic
and technical factors. It has
nothing to do with the
Israeli-Arab conflict. Also,
the disappearance of the
conflict will not bring a
more reasonable govern-
ment to power in Iran. It
will not improve- the-
chances of the ruling clique
in Saudi Arabia to outlive
the social changes occurring
there."
Furthermore, Harme-
lin said, "It will not im-
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tween Syria and Iraq, be- field some years before —
tween Libya and Egypt, Israel cannot experiment
between South and North with large-scale unem-
Yemen. It will not bring ployment, a step considered
peace to Lebanon. It will to be the best measure to
not lessen Russian influ-
curb inflation. Yet the effort
ence in Ethiopia. And, of to slow down inflation had
course, it will not remove become the number one
the Russians from Af- priority of the government,
ghanistan — or from and the results, "while not
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African trade, Harmelin — though Harmelin did not
the last Israeli to leave refer to it, it is known that
Teheran — observed that Israel has never approved of
this had dramatically in- apartheid and still adheres
creased in recent years. to the ban of arms to South
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Barely $20 million in 1972, Africa.
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the bilateral volume of
trade had reached $200 mil-
lion in 1979. Of this total,
about $50 million repre-
sents Israeli exports to
South Africa, composed
mainly of mineral and
chemical products, yet also
of machinery, electronic
equipment and textiles.
As fas as Israel's imports
from...South Africa is con-
cerned, Harmelin said that
basic metals constitute
more than half the value,
followed by semi-precious
stones, wood, paper and
food-stuffs. Meanwhile, Is-
rael and South Africa
signed an agreement for the
purchase of South African
coal, soon to reach one mil-
lion tons a year, thus adding
another $30 million to Is-
rael's imports.
"We try hard to sell more
in this country," he said, "so
that our trade should be
more balanced."
Referring to Israel's
overall negative trade
balance, Harmelin noted
that its electronics indus-
try had exported goods
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Ten years later, he said,
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'Harmelin also took a hard
look at Israel's general eco-
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