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Israel, the U.S. and Gulf war
BY VICTOR M. BIENSTOCK
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Special to The Jewish News
_ In one of those garrulous renewed its request ur- American weapons and
panel discussions on the gently, Mr. Reagan used his materiel they found in cap-
Persian Gulf situation Presidential emergency tured PLO dumps in Leba-
which TV has mercilessly powers to provide 400 mis- non which bore markings
inflicted on us in recent Biles. (He could not have indicating that they had
weeks, a Washington col- provided many more; our originally been sent to
umnist distinguished for his supply is extremely low and Saudi Arabia.
Defense Secretary Caspar
hostility to the State of Is- production very slow.)
Weinberger drew the wrong
rael petulantly asked why
conclusions when Israeli
Israel wasn't doing some-
Defense Minister Moshe
thing to help the United
Arens complained to him in
States to cope with the prob-
Washington that the Stin-
lem.
gers might fall into terrorist
Just what he expected Is-
hands.
rael to do he didn't specify,
"Nonsense," or words to
but the implication was that
that effect was the purport
Israel could pay us back for
of the Weinberger reply. "If
all the billions in aid it re-
the threat of terrorism pre-
ceived from us over the de-
vents us from sending help,"
cades by stepping out to pro-
he told Arens, "then ter-
tect shipping in'the Persian
rorism has succeeded."
Gulf and keep the Straits of
He missed the point, as he
Hormuz open.
usually does in any question
None of the other•
involving Israel. In this case
panelists reacted to the
the point was that in addi-
suggestion that there was a
tion to financing the PLO
role for Israel in the Gulf
terrorists, Saudi Arabia is
crisis and it was quickly
also one of their major
dropped for a heated discus-
sources of arms and that de-
sion of what exactly the
spite whatever assurances
American role should be.
Washington may have
Why there had to be an
sought, there is a very
American role — except to
strong likelihood that some
ensure that the Soviet
of the Stingers and laun-
Union did not encroach —
chers will turn up in PLO
was not made clear.
hands, a direct threat to Is-
After all, oil from the Per-
rael.
sian Gulf is not an impor-
One of the basic political
tant factor in the American
truisms we overlook too fre-
economy; thanks to the pro-
quently is that American
gress we have made since
He also authorized the administrations act on their
the Arab oil boycott of 1973,
our reliance on Persian Gulf dispatch of a KC-10 aerial perception of what is the
oil has sunk to about three tanker to refuel the Saudi best procedure to advance
to five percent of our na- F-15s if they are ever an immediate objective or
tional requirement. Gulf oil scrambled to protect ship- long-range goal, not the Is-
is no longer an American ping in the Gulf. The tanker raeli or American. Jewish
pocketbook issue. Our pol- is on loan to the Saudis and perception of danger to Is-
icy in the Gulf is to keep the will be manned by an rael's security. Although
the United States is com-
Soviets out and to keep the American crew.
Israel has objected, albeit mitted to the principle of Is-
Arabs happy. .
not too strongly, to the pro- rael's security, the two
Our European and vision of the Stingers on the perspectives may often be in
Japanese allies who are de- grounds that these two- conflict.
pendent on Gulf oil sources man, shoulder-fired mis-
In the current crisis, Re-
have been reluctant to be- siles can very easily end up agan sidestepped the effect
come directly involved. in the hands of Palestine of Israel's protests and
Only Prance has become in- Liberation Organization avoided another bruising
volved to the extent of pro- terrorists and be used battle in Congress in an
viding Iraq the Super against Israeli planes. The election year by using his
bombers and deadly Exocet Stinger is an ideal weapon Presidential emergency
missiles which s have for terrorists and guerrilas. powers to transfer the 400
enabled Iraq to transform It is easily transportable missiles to Saudi Arabia.
the war into a fight to con- and requires no fixed Whether they will ever be
trol transit of an interna- emplacement — only a used to repel attacks on Gulf
tional waterway.
man's shoulder. The Israelis shipping or Saudi installa-
Like his immediate pre- have not forgotten all the tions is doubtful.
In addition to
financing the
PLO terrorists,
Saudi Arabia is
also one of their
major sources of
arms. Despite
whatever
assurances
Washington may
have sought there
is a very strong
likelihood that
some of the
Stingers and
launchers will
turn up in PLO
hands.
decessors, President Re-
agan believes that Ameri-
can policy in the Middle
East requires us to earn the
good will of the Saudi Ara-
bian ruling family although
the Saudis have made it
clear over and over again
they prefer us to remain at a
goodly distance.
Earlier this '`year, the
President was forced to
withdraw a request to Con-
gress to authorize the sale of
2,000 Stinger anti-aircraft
missiles and a quantity of
launchers to Saudi Arabia.
But after Iranian warplanes
had attacked Saudi vessels
in Saudi Arabian waters
(as, be it noted, did Iiaqi
bombers) and Saudi Arabia
Weizmann teaches doctors
Rehovot — Leading
' Colombian doctors and re-
searchers recently learned
about new approaches to
cancer therapy in a course
given by Prof. Abraham
Amsterdam and Dr. Em-
manuel Hanski of Israel's
Weizmann Institute. This
course, held at the country's
National Cancer Institute,
was part of a cooperative
agreement betWeen the
Colombian Scientific Re-
search Institute and the
Weizinann Institute of Sci-
ence.
Prof. Amsterdam's own
work has centered on a re-
cently identified link be-
tween specific types of
cancer and hormones. In
addition to the importance
of hormones as a diagnostic
tool, Prof. Amsterdam says
that hormone-antagonists
— materials that interfere .
with hormone action — may
eventually find use as •
tumor-growth inhibitors.
Prof. Amsterdam's lab is,
a leader in the field of hor-
mone receptor localization.