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German, U.S. Munitions
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Helmut Schmidt opposed
the sales in spite of an eco-
nomic recession which
made the restraint more
costly. Immediately after
the West Germans refused
to sell Leopard tanks to the
Saudis, American munition
makers rushed forward
with a huge sale of U.S.
tanks. Whether the present
government in the German
Federal Republic, with its
chief strength and support
coming from business and
industry, will be inclined to
refuse the Saudis what they
want is undecided as this is
written. They know, of
course, that if they do refuse
— remembering Germany's
special reasons for not sup-
plying weapons to kill Jews
again — American muni-
tions profiteers will rush
forward to make the sale.
The requests of the
Saudis are directed
toward aggressive
weapons, and they are
clearly part of a plan for
another assault upon Is-
rael. Included are, for
example, bridge-laying
equipment and amphibi-
ous tanks, far less useful
for fording the Persian
Gulf than the Jordan
River.
According to King Has-
san II of Morocco (quoted in
a story by Henry Kamm of
the New York Times),
Egypt has agreed to aban-
don the Camp David Ac-
cords. Mubarak is supposed
to have said that Egypt has
gotten everything out of the
Israelis Told
U.S. of Lebanon
Invasion Plans
TEL AVIV — Reagan
Administration officials
were informed of plans for
Israel's June 1982 invasion
of Lebanon the previous De-
cember and made no serious
attempt to stop the strike,
according to two Israeli
journalists.
Newsweek magazine re-
ported that Zeev Schiff and
Ehud Yaari, in a book to be
published in Israel this
spring, write that former
Defense Minister Ariel
Sharon first mentioned the
possibility of an invasion to
U.S. special envoy Philip
Habib in Jerusalem on Dec.
4, 1981. Habib objected to
the idea, the authors said,
but there were no further
protests from the United
States.
An additional warning of
impending Israeli actions
was given to then Secretary
of State Alexander Haig
during a May 1982 meeting
with Sharon, according to
the authors.
agreement that there was to
get: the Sinai, the oil fields,
etc.
This may be, of course,
simply a rumor planted to
test American reaction. But
if it is true that State De-
partment officials are now
favorably disposed to Arafat
as an intermediary with
Hussein of Jordan, Israel is
in danger again on the east
and the south. Of course
State Department officials
"decline to be identified,"
with their customary quo-
tient of moral courage, so
this rumor is no better than
the rumor about Mubarak's
remarks.
But the map speaks for it-
self. Lebanon is still a
jungle, with a huge Syrian
buildup going on. Jordan is
unstable. Egypt is unstable.
The Saudis are arming
rapidly, spending tens of
billions of petro-dollars to
do it. Arafat, for many years
the Soviet Union's most use-
ful tool against Israel, is
shopping around for a new
base of operations. And in
the meantime, lacking
strong and imaginative in-
itiatives from the American
executive, American forces
are stuck in Lebanon in a
situation resented by the
military as a "no-win," fuel-
ling the slow but powerful
rise of old-fashioned Ameri-
can political isolationsm.
Those of us who love
Israel can do our best to
stop American or Ger-
man supplies from reach-
ing the aggressors. The
National Christian Lead-
ership Conference for Is-
rael, a large federation of
organizations of Protes-
tants and Roman
Catholics supporting Is-
rael's survival and well-
being, has recently sent
cables to fellow-
Christian leaders in West
Germany asking their
help in opposing the sale
of arms to the Saudis. But
if the West Germans
stand by moral princi-
ples, the American mun-
itions industry — with no
such inhibitions — will
cash in.
Perhaps, looking around
a world of danger, fueled in
good part by American
equipment, we need most of
all other Senate investiga-
tion of the kind Harry Tru-
man led while he was still in
the upper house in Wash-
ington.
Such an investigation,
with criminal procedures
against the profiteers would
not only help Israel's secu-
rity against Muslim primi-
tives screaming for jihad, it
would also damp down ag-
gressive potential in many
other parts of the world.
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