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. WINDOW SHADE CO. 25% OFF* WALLPAP See Our Fine Showroom For All Your Decorative Needs Thousands of patterns: Marimekko - Bob Mitchell Shumacher - David and Dash Strahan - Van Luit - Katzenback Grasscloth - Whimsical Walls and many nursery and children's books to choose from .. . * No Freight Charges . 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