THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Boris Smolar's
`Between You
. . and Me'
Editor-in-Chief
Emeritus, JTA
(Copyright 1982, JTA, Inc.)
UJA Conference
to Hear Arens,
Mrs. Kirkpatrick
Friday, April 30, 1982 17
Best Kept Secret In Town!
AT
NEW YORK — Jeane J.
Kirkpatrick, the United
States representative to the
United Nations, and Moshe
Arens, Israel's ambassador
to the U.S., will be featured
speakers at the annual
United Jewish Appeal na-
tional leadership confer-
ence, May 21-23, in Wash-
ington.
The conference agenda
includes workshops and
study sessions on the
human needs served by the
Jewish Agency in Israel and
by the American Jewish
Joint Distribution Commit-
tee in 33 nations worldwide
SINAI REFLECTION: Restlessness among Jewisn
leaders in this country is growing now on the eve of Israel's
final withdrawal from Sinai. The last of the Israeli troops,
as well as the last of the 7,000 Israelis who settled in Sinai
after Israel took possession of this territory 15 years ago,
will
- leave on Sunday under the Israeli-Egyptian agree-
u-it reached at Camp David. The Israeli flag will be re-
_ .oved on that day and the Egyptian flag will wave again.
The uneasy feelings come not so much from the fact
that Israel is returning to Egypt the Sinai territory with its
oil fields which Israeli investments developed to a point
that the wells could provide oil for Israel for the next 25
years, making the Jewish state self-sufficient in oil; they
All is holy where devotion
also do not come because of the abandonment by Israel of its kneels.
military airfields to Egypt — airfields which are the most
sophisticated in the Middle East.
The questions bothering American Jewish leaders are:
Will Egypt abide by its part of the Camp David pact which
provides for establishing, in addition to diplomatic rela-
tions, also full commercial and cultural relations with Is-
rael; will the U.S. government — the architect of the Camp
David pact — use its influence and power to see to it that
Egypt fulfills the obligations which President Anwar Sadat
undertook when he signed the Israeli-Egyptian agree-
ment?
The original agreement for relations in the area of
commerce was worked out in the beginning of 1980. For
Israel this agreement meant not only the trade relations,
but a breakthrough in the Arab boycott. Israel ratified the
commercial agreement in April 1980, but it took Egypt
almost a'year longer to ratify this document. Although the
agreement dealt with lifting all commercial boycotts
against Israel, the entire public sector of Egypt is still
closed. Egyptian governmental agencies for shipping still
refuse to deal with Israel shipping companies. No Israeli
firm has yet won a tender in Egypt. Israel can only operate
in Egypt through one very small bank. Egyptian airplanes
are still arriving unmarked at the airport in Lod, and El Al
flights leave Cairo unannounced.
Noticeable also is the fact that Egypt has not ratified as
yet the cultural agreement with Israel reached as a result
of the Camp David pact. Although more than 50,000 Is-
raelis have traveled to Egypt since this agreement was
concluded, less than 2,000 Egyptians have visited Israel.
Difficulties are being made for Egyptians wishing to travel
as tourists to Israel by requesting them to fill out and sign
four different applications, and by investigating every per-
son seeking to visit Israel. All this even when the process of
Israel's evacuation from Sinai was going on. -
ISRAEL'S SACRIFICE: Deprived of its oilfields, Is-
rael has made its first purchase in Egypt of $500 million in
oil from its own oil fields. The loss in oil to Israel by turning
over its oil fields to Egypt is estimated by experts to reach
$50 billion. For the next five or six years Israel will have to
spend more than $2 billion a year for oil.
The immediate cost to Israel of withdrawing from
Sinai will reach roughly $20 billion. That is the price that
Israel pays for peace with Egypt. It is equal to the entire
Israeli gross national product of one year.
More than $6 billion has been paid in relocating the
military from Sinai to the Negev and for building new
installations and new airfields. There is also the cost of oil,
and the $1 billion per year interest payments on the loans
which Israel has secured for the withdrawal on the interna-
tional financial market.
The U.S. government has given Israel $800 million as
a grant for its new airbases in the Negev. It also assisted
Israel in gaining $2.4 billion worth of loans through Ameri-
can guarantees. The remaining sums of money Israel has
`,,:ded to secure through loans obtained through the inter-
_ Lional banking system. It must be noted that Israel's
foreign debt today totals $18 billion, 40 percent of which is
owed to the United States, with an annual debt service of $1
billion.
The world does not appear to be aware of the mag-
nitude of the concessions Israel has made — nor of the risks
she is taking — by giving up the Sinai as a buffer — in order
to show its sincere desire for peace.
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Israel to Begin Importing Gems
RAMAT GAN — The im-
port of polished diamonds
from other cutting centers
will now be permitted in Is-
rael in order to offer inter-
national diamonds buyers
the widest selection of
finished goods, according to
Moshe Schnitzer, president
of the Israel Diamond Ex-
change.
Meanwhile, an upswing
in exports of Israeli-
manufactured diamonds in
February was announced by
the diamond controller's
office, with overseas sales
exceeding $80 million, one
percent ahead of the same
month last year.
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