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ROBERT ST. JOHN

Alice In Saudiland

I

t is not news that every
year, every month, every
week in the English lang-
uage gets more and more
bastardized.
Advertising writers, gov-
ernment officials, newspaper
columnists and even school
teachers follow plural nouns
with singular verbs, use con-
census (sic!) of opinion with-
out a blush, make verbs out
of nouns and nouns out of
verbs, and in other ways
violate all the rules of good
English.
Furthermore, Nazi Pro-
paganda Chief Goebbels'
technique of the "big lie,"
once held in contempt, is now
used in a subtle way in our
own country, even in the most
respected circles.
Prime examples of all this
abound in the Washington
administration's fawning over
Saudi Arabia.
When President Reagan
notified Congress in June
that conditions had been met
for the delivery of five
AWACS surveillance plans
(our Air Force's most sophis-
ticated development), he
stated, in undeniable type-
written words:
"I also believe that signifi-
cant progress toward the
peaceful resolution of dis-
putes in the region (the Mid-
dle East) has been accomp-
lished with the substantial
assistance of Saudi Arabia."
The surprise was that when
this sentence was read to
members of Congress there
was no burst of loud laughter.
As those words were being
written for the President by
someone in the White House,
one of the longest and fiercest
wars the Middle East has
ever known was being waged
just as hotly as ever between
Iran and Iraq.
As those words were being
written, Israeli soldiers were
still being killed in Lebanon,
the total now being well over
700.
As those words were being
written, civil war still raged in
Lebanon between Christians
and Moslems, and even be-
tween hostile groups of
Moslems, with car bombings
in Beirut as frequent as

September thunderstorms in
Detroit.

As those words were being
written, Arab terrorists were
still killing innocent men and
women — half a dozen Ameri-
cans held by Shiites had not
yet been released; Syria was
massing armored units on the
Israeli frontier, and military
experts in Europe and
America were predicting all-
out war ont he Golan Heights
at any moment.
As those words were being
written in the White House,
Jordan was, it is true, in-
dicating that maybe she just
might be willing to talk with

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Friday, October 10, 1986

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

Israel about Judea _ and
Samaria, but not much later
she refused to permit an
American-born Washington
correspondent who writes for
a number of American Jewish
weeklies (including the De-
troit Jewish News) to accom-

pany Vice President Bush to
Amman, on the ground that
he also writes for the
Jerusalem Post — a strange
way to encourage dialogue
with Israel.

And Saudi Arabia herself
was still financing terrorism

The surprise was
that when Reagan
read his words to
Congress there
was no outburst of
laughter.

through its sizable monthly
financial contributions to the
PLO.
Also, Saudi Arabia was still
refusing visas to any Jews, be
he journalist, tourist or
diplomat.
The Congressmen should
have burst out laughing at
the White House distortion of
the English language.
Then along came Defense
Secretary Caspar Weinberger,
who was the author of this
GEM: "If we take away the
AWACS, we will have a per-
manent state of enmity be-
tween Israel and the Arabs."
At the time Weinberger
made that statement, Saudi
Arabia had, technically and
actually, been in a state of
war with Israel for 38 years,
plus a few days, with no in-
dication that she even
dreamed of ever decreasing
her enmity.
Why didn't someone ask
the Defense Secretary how
Saudi Arabia's enmity for
Israel was going to be reduc-
ed by delivering to her five
AWACS, which will be sta-
tioned as close as possible to
the Israeli border and thus
will be able to chart the move-
ment of every single plane
that the Israeli Air Force ever
puts into the sky.
How delivering spy planes
to one of the most heavily
armed of the Arab countries,
whose troops fought against
the Israelis in three of the five
Arab-Israeli wars, is going to
reduce enmity between Arabs
and Jews, and defuse emo-
tions, and further peace is a
technicality on which Caspar
Weinberger did not expiate.
There are many other ex-
amples of Saudi Arabia being
presented to the American
public as an angel amongst
devils, a moderate, a friend of
the United States, our ally.
It's time someone stood up
and shouted:
"Stop telling us the big lie!
Talk sense! Please don't
abuse the English language!"

