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• OLD ARAM CO OIL AGAIN
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In a handbook by the Arabian-American Oil Company it
lists one of the principal reasons for the Arabs turning to' the So-
viet Union for economic assistance. Cited is West’s • attitude to-
wards the Palestine Arab refugee question and a “real sense1 of
insecurity with respect to possible further expansion of Israel.”
The volume, which runs 343 pages, was printed in The Neth-
erlands and has been sent to libraries all over the country by the
oil company.
Israel has only two references in this supposed Middle East
handbook of facts. One mention is “the Arab states dispute Is-
rael’s claims to rights in the Gulf of Akaba.” Also referred to is
the Arab-Israeli dispute as a course of tension in the Middle Bast.
Pteferring to this it says “Another cause has been the tragic im-
passe in the Arab-Israeli conflict. Current problems in the Middle
East cannot be understood without a comprehension of how
strongly the Arabs feel on this issue. The West’s apparent indif-
ference to Arab viewpoint and to the plight of a million or so
Arab refugees displaced from their homes in Palestine has been
both ^disillusioning and frustrating to the Arabs.”
The editors say “these feelings, coupled with a real sense of
insecurity with respect to possible further expansion of Israel,
largely explain why Egypt and later Syria turned to the Soviet
Union for arms and economic assistance after failing to get what
they wanted from the West.”
Oh, what humbug!
The real; reason the Arab rulers turned to Soviet Russia is
because they find it profitable to play both sides against the mid-
dle (East).
If the Arab rulers had really wanted k> do something in and
for the Middle East, they would not waste the time with any argu-
ments for or against Israel.
The Arab rulers would take some of the billions that they
have received from the oil income anld use it for the benefit of
their peoples. They could have built great schools, irrigated the
desert, provided genuine productive jobs, housed the homeless,
hospitalized the sick, enfranchised the masses.
Israel is a good wedge to talk about all the time. To howl
about over the radio so any indolent Arab convinces himself
that Israel is at the root of all his troubles.
Nothing could be further from the truth.
The Arab is his own worst enemy.
Until he decides to go out and rebuild his land, to take a
hand in the selection of his governors, to recognize the opposite
sex as equal, to accord other religions the respect he expects for
his own—until these things happen the Middle East will remain
in the grips of feudalism while the rulers play cat and mouse
with the great powers of the world for free handouts.
The Arab States are not the only nations that have played
this game. We have only to look to the Southern Hemisphere to
find other examples.
But, Arameo, quite naturally, is interested in its own corpor-
ate welfare. And what is Arameo? The Arabian American Oil
Company!
Well, Arameo is in for more reporting within the near future.
The American Jewish Congress had filed a complaint against
the oil company charging that the company discriminates against
Jews because it refuses to hire Jews. This original complaint was
made in 1956 to the New York State Commission Against Discrim-
ination. Though Arameo won an exception in an early ruling the
New York State Supreme Court finally decided that the New
York State Commission Against Discrimination must conduct a
hearing with regard to the complaint against Arameo.
A public hearing is now on the agenda.
P.S. The oil company conceded that it refuses to hire Jews
for most of the positions it has. It has argued that such steps are
required by its agreement with Saudi Arabia.
P.P.S. Now, let’si see. Saudi Arabia ... is that the country
that cooperated with the Nazis during World War II? . . .
And now . . .
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• POST EXCLUSIVE
The Jews Of Yugoslavia
BY TULLIA ZEV
(First of Two Articles)
(Special Corespondent of
(Copyright, 1961, JTA, Inc)
BELGRADE—At 71-A Ulica
7 Jula, in an old dignified build-
ing which is the property of the
Jewish community of Belgrade,
the offices of the Federation of
Jewish Communities in Yugo-
slavia are located. There, Dr. Al-
bert Vajs, professor at' the Law
Faculty of Belgrade University,
and president of the Federation
since 1948, welcomed me in his
large, comfortable office. From
the walls in his office, the photo-
graphs of Marshal Tito, Theodor
Herzl and Moshe Pijade looked
benevolently on. Nothing could,
perhaps better summarize the
life of the Jews of Yugoslavia
today than the co-existence of
the pictures of these three per-
sonalities, in the office of the
president of the Federation of
Jewish communities.
“There were 75,000 Jews in
Yugoslavia before the war,”
stated Prof. Vajs, in soft-spoken,
faultless English. “Seventy
thousand of them were Yugo-
slavs, and 5,000 were immi-
grants. Two-thirds were Sep-
hardic Jews, ana one-third were
Askenazrsm. They were grouped
in 112 communities scattered
throughout the land. Sixty
thousand of them v/ere lost.
Most of them were deported.
Many died while fighting side
by side with the other Yugo-
slav partisans. Few became con-
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Senate Conferees
Eliminate Anti Bias
From Peace Corps
(Copyright, 1961, JTA, Inc.)
WASHINGTON, (JTA)—Sen-
ate conferees, led by Chairman
J. W. Fulbright of the Foreign
Relations Committee, v/ere dis-
closed last week to have elimin-
ated an anti-bias clause from the
Peace Corps bill now before
Congress.
Peace Corp Director R. Sar-
geant Shriver had insisted, in an
appearance before Sen. Ful-
bright’s committee, that Peace
Corps personnel would not be
sent into countries, like the Arab
states, which discriminate
against U.S. personnel on a basis
of religious or racial prejudice.
By unanimous vote, the House
adopted an amendment t>airing
Peace Corps operations in na-
tions seeking to enforce bigotry.
Rep. Silvio O. Conte, Massach-
usetts Republican, said this
amendment was “directed parti-
cularly to the Arab countries
that have discriminated against
American boys of Jewish faith.
I do not think they should have
the benefit of the Peace Corps.”
It was learned that the State
Department, through Sen. Ful-
bright, interceded in the Senate
House conference to delete the
anti-bias measure, approved by
the House. Representative Tho-
mas E. Morgan, Pennsylvania
Democrat, chairman of the
House Foreign Affairs Commit-
tee, admitted that the amend-
ment “caused the conference a
great' deal of concern.” Rep. Mor-
gan expressed sympathy for the
amendment’s purpose but appar-
ently had to go along with the
Executive Department’s wishes.
The Executive Department em-
phasized that they would not
have Peace Corps programs in
a country that made American
personnel “repeatedly subject to
discrimination.”
As a result, “the managers on
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CAPITAL SPOTLIGHT
• •
Milton Friedman
e ARAB STRATEGY: PLANT FIFTH COLUMN IN ISRAEL
WASHINGTON — The United
Nations may be exploited by
i Arab nationalism and could even
witness the creation of a “Pal-
estine Liberation Movement” to
destroy Israel.
Informed Washington officials
are speculating on the growth of
k Arab power in the post-Ham-
marskjold United Nations. The
rise of the Afro-AsVn bloc in
the U.N. and election of a Mos-
lem, Mongi Slim of Tunisia, as
President of the General Assem-
bly, portends Arab use of the
U.N. for anti-Israel ends.
The basic Arab desire is to
bracket Israel with France, Al-
geria, Portuguese Angola, the
Union of South Africa, and Ka-
tanga. Arab strategy envisages
a turning back of the Near East
•clock to 1947 to negate the U.N.
Palestine partition and its after-
math.
The Arabs want to ereate U.N.
machinery that would compro-
mise Israeli sovereignty. This is
the first step for a process the
Arabs hope will establish a cli-
mate for an armed “liberation”
struggle in Israel wherein the
U.N. would back arab “anti-im-
perialist” aspirations.
This session, the U.N. will see
an Arab move to create a U.N.
apparatus to implement the re-
atria tion and compensation of
Arab refugees. The United
States is committed to the prin-
ciple of Israeli concessions.
Seeking Arab support in the
U.N. against the Soviet “Troika”
design, America may go further
than it actually desires in ap-
peasement of the Arabs.
The Arabs are not aiming for
a peaceful return of a limited
number of Palestinian Arabs.
They want to create an atmo-
sphere in which the U.N. por-
trays Israel in the wrong. Con-
current with the refugee weap-
on, the Arabs will demand U.N.
machinery inside Israel to re-
store abandoned Arab proper-
ties. This is another way of in-
jecting U.N. authority into in-
ternal Israeli affairs. It is part
of the plan to undermine founda-
tions of Israeli independence and
sovereignity.
When and if the Arab-prodded
U.N. portrays Israel as “defy-
ing” U.N. decisions, the Arabs
would unleash violence through
a so-called “liberation” move-
ment. There would be armed in-
filtration by “freedom fighters”
backed by the Arab world.
President Nasser of the U.A.R.
might even declare a “Republic
of Palestine,” perhaps in the
Egyptian Sinai adjacent to Is-
rael.
A key to events will emerge
in the unfolding Arab attitude
toward the United Nations
Emergency Force stationed by
the late U.N. Secretary General
in the Gaza Strip and at Sharm-
el-Sheikh, the entrance of Ak-
aba Gulf. The Arabs could eith-
er oppose new allocations to
U.N.E.F. or try to use this force
against Israel.
If the U.N.E.F. were removed
from protecting the three-mile
wide Akaba Gulf entrance, Nas-
ser could immediately install
guns and seal off Eilat Port, Is-
rael’s aecess to Asia and East
Africa. This would restore the
Arab blockade that existed be-
fore the 1956 Sinai war. If Is-
rael fought again to open the
passage, the Arabs would expect
U.N. support.
The Moslem President of the
General Assembly, Mongi Slim,
of Tunisia, will have a voice in
delicate procedural questions
and the maneuvers for filling the
gap created by Mr. Hammarsk-
jold’s death. America will ob-
viosly seek to cultivate Mr. Slim.
The State Department, with
obvious support of the White
House is concentrating on the
Arab refugee problem to im-
prove American relations with
the Arabs. But the Department
is doing nothing to persuade the
Arabs to lift illegal blockades
and boycotts that affect Ameri-
cans as well as Israelis.
Prime Minister Ben-Gurion
last May 30 met President Ken-
nedy in New York. The Prime
Minister stressed that Soviet
heavy munitions continued flow-
ing into Arab states and that
the temporary calm in the region
was deceptive. Mr. Ben-Gurion
told the press he reached “a
tery large measure of agree-
ment’ with Mr. Kennedy on the
Arab refugee issue.
But the State Department was
quick to contradict the Israeli
leader. The State Department
said that “President Kennedy
raised with Prime Minister Ben-
Gurion the subject of the tragic
plight of the Arab refugees . . .
an understanding between the
President and the Prime Minis-
ter as to a specific solution did
not arise.”
President Kennedy “stressed
the importance of Israel cooper-
ing with such efforts as may be
initiated by the United Nations
Palestine Conciliation Commis-
sion.” During the last U.N. As-
sembly, Arab pressure caused
the P.C.C. to agree to take a
“new look” at repatriation of the
Arab refugees.
The United Nations called on
the P.C.C. to report back, by
October 15, on implementation
of the 1948 U.N. resolution that
included a recommendation that
refugees who wish to live at
peace be permitted to return or
receive compensation. The reso-
lution also called for an Arab-
Israeli peace settlement but this
aspect was ignored.
Members of the P.C.C. are the
United States, Turkey, and
France. If the P.C.C. does not
bring in a report satisfactory to
them, the Arabs will demand its
membership be altered to in-
clude “neutral” or even Com-
munist states.
The 1948 U.N. demand for
free access to Jewih Holy Places
in Arab-occupied Jerusalem is
no longer mentioned. All pres-
sure is on one side in a two-sided
dispute.
Not long ago, the Public Af-
fairs Institute of Washington
analyzed the Arab refugee mat-
ter. It concluded that “the in-
sistence on repatriation to Is-
rael is allied to a single object-
ive—the creation of an internal
fifth column which would des-
troy the Jewish State, if all
other means failed.”
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