THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, April 10, 1981
5
Michigan Congressmen Lead Fight on Saudi Arms
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weapons, Israel would have
to increase its military
budget at a time when it al-
ready spends a large share
of its gross national product
on defense.
what a terrible
shame it would be if in the
name of a strategic U.S.
presence abroad, we
undermine our most reli-
able and effective ally in
the Middle East, the state
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of Israel," Blanchard
said. "I can't help but
wonder if this sale would
ever have been proposed
if Israel had oil wells."
Broomfield, the ranking
Republican on the House
Foreign Affairs Committee,
said he did not believe that
the U.S. should sell AWACs
(surveillance) planes to any
country.
Riegle and Levin issued
lengthy statements during
the past week, reiterating
their opposition to the sales.
Both cited the threat to Is-
rael of the new equipment
and the belief that such
equipment in the hands of
the Saudis will not be a de-
terrent to the Soviet Union.
Levin said, "We are pro-
viding the Arab states, for
Saudi Arabia is assuredly a
leader of the Arab states
confronting Israel, with a
sophisticated airborne sys-
tem which could severely
degrade Israeli air superior-
ity. This is a system which,
properly used, will provide
Israel's enemies with in-
stantaneous knowledge of
her air operations and in-
crease their ability to effec-
tively respond.
"The Arabs already
have a tremendous edge
over Israel in sheer num-
bers, but Israel has al-
ways overcome this with
superior technology.
Through this sale, the
U.S., Israel's chief ally,
would be making avail-
able available to the Arab
states a system capable of
reducing Israel's
technological edge.
"This sale, just as the pro-
posed sale of the offensive
equipment for the F-15s, is
intrinsically damaging to
basic U.S. policy in the Mid-
dle East, whcih is predi-
cated on a strong, stable Is-
rael- able to militarily de-
fend herself against her
hostile Arab neighbors, and
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will plunge us into a new,
dangerous and costly airms
race in one of the world's
most volatile areas."
Last week in Baltimore,
Sen. Howard Metzenbaum
(D-Ohio), called on Ameri-
can Jews to issue a strong
protest against the sales.
"The time has come for
American Jews to dig in
their_ heels and say 'no —
this is wrong. This is
dangerous and we're not
going to sit idly by while the
survival of Israel is
threatened,' " Metzenbaum
told Baltimore's Associated
Jewish Charities and Wel-
fare Fund.
A warning that a "bit-
ter fight is inevitable" has
been issued by the Con-
ference of Presidents of
Major American Jewish
Organizations in a state-
ment by its chairman,
Howard Squadron,
which noted "with
alarm" reports that the
National Security Coun-
cil had recommended to
the President arms sales
to Saudi Arabia.
Squadron added, If the
report is accurate and the
recommendation is acted
upon an even more bitter
fight than in 1978 over the
F-15s) is inevitable. The
Jewish community will op-
pose such a proposal vigor-
ously."
Rabbi Alexander Schin-
dler, president of the (Re-
form) Union of American
Hebrew Congregations, de-
nounced the 'proposal,
charging that a resulting
arms race would bring the
area closer to war and
jeopardize Israel's security.
The American Jewish
Committee urged the Re-
agan Administration to
cancel the scheduled sale,
on grounds the weapons
transfer would 'endanger
American interests and
prospects for peace in the
Middle East." Maynard
Wishner, AJCommittee
president, also urged both
houses of Congress "to vote
resolutions of disapproval"
if the Administration went
ahead with the sale."
The American Jewish
Committee said the re-
ported National Security
Council recommendation
"represents not only a
breach of prior assur-
ances that such weapons
would not be provided to
the Saudis, but consti-
tutes a reckless repudia-
W. Germany Plans Strategy
to Get Saudi Arms Approval
BONN (JTA) — Chancel-
lor Helmut Schmidt,
scheduled to visit Saudi
Arabia April 27, hopes to re-
turn with offers of an eco-
nomic package deal so bene-
ficial to West Germany's
economy and industrialists
that strong Bundestag op-
position to projected arms
sales to the Saudis will be
defused.
The deal Schmidt is said
to haVe in mind includes
Saudi guarantees of an un-
interrupted oil supply to
West Germany under
preferential conditions.
Bonn, for its part,
would be committed to
sell Saudi Arabia
thousands of sophisti-
cated armored vehicles,
the newest German tank,
the Leopold II, and pos-
sibly Tornado combat
planes, built by. a
German-Italian-British
consortium. But the eco-
nomic benefits would be
of such proportions as to
Research Budget
TEL AVIV (JNI) — About
- $25 million will be invested
in Israel over the next five-
years in interdisciplinary
medical research to develop
new drugs against cancer
and viral diseases, new
technology in genetic
engineering and food prod-
uction, as well as further re-
search in such existing
medications as THE and In-
terfereon.
make the arms deal ap-
pear as only a minor ele-
ment of the package.
Schmidt is following this
strategy, according to some
observers, in order to over-
come the strong political
opposition to the arms sales
within his own Social
Democratic Party and its
coalition junior partner, the
Free Democrats.
tion of the traditional,
long-standing commit-
ment to Israel security."
Ivan Novick, president of
the Zionist Organization of
America, stressed that no
amount of armaments pro-
vided to Saudi Arabia would
serve "as a deterrent to
Soviet aggression in the
Middle East." He added that
the "stockpiling" of "huge
arsenals of destruction" by
Saudi Arabia and other
Arab states "does constitute
a direct threat to Israel and
to American Middle East
interests."
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