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Arabs Building a Global Image
by WILLIAM SAPHIRE
PART TWO
The flow of money between the
U.S. and the Arab world travels in
both directions. New York Times
reporter Peter T. Kilborn reported
this month that “American finan
cial institutions are swarming into
the Middle East, often with well
connected Arabs as their private
operatives, in a bid to handle the
petrodollar riches flowing from the
higher prices for oil.”
Among the American firms vy
ing for Arab business, are First
National City Bank, Chase
Manhattan, Bank of America and
the investment brokers, Merrill
Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith;
also such prominent New York in
vestment banking firms as
Lehman Brothers, Morgan
Stanley & Co., Kidder Peabody
and the First Boston Corp. These
institutions “have been deploying
branches into Iran, Egypt and Jor-
Jewish
Quiz Box
By Rabbi Samuel Fox
QUESTION: Why is the
benediction over the bread
pronounced in the present tense in
stead of the past tense (e.g., “who
bringest forth bread from the
earth”)?
ANSWER: Some claim that the
infinitive form is implied by this
expression which would indicate
the past, present and even future.
This is said to indicate that to the
Almighty, unlike man, past, pre
sent and future are one. It is only
man, because of his limited
perspective in time, that has to
separate the three time slots. Some
claim that the expression includes
the future because it is believed
that in the future the Almighty will
provide man with finished bread
from the earth so as to eliminate
his toil in bringing the raw grain
into the form of an edible loaf.
This, they claim, was the way in
which Adam received his bread in
the Garden of Eden. Perhaps the
great advances in automation may
be the Almighty's way of bringing
man closer to the realization of.,
such a Messianic Era.
QUESTION: Why is the twen
tieth Psalm read every day in the
week-dav service each morning?
ANSWER This Psalm is
known as a Psalm of Salvation
since it concludes with a petition to
the Almighty for his salvation in
answer to one's prayers.
After the main body of prayer
the Jew engages in penitential
recitations declaring himself to be
a sinner and falling upon the mercy
of the Almighty. He therefore tries
to convince himself that the
Almighty is still concerned about
him by reciting the Ashre Psalm.
Following this he recites the
twentieth Psalm with the con
fidence that the Almighty will help
him in his “hour of need and
trouble" and the Psalm ends with
the firm conviction that the
Almighty sends his salvation to
man and responds to his call on the
day when he calls.
Thus the pattern of sequence is
to pray and ask something of the
Almighty, to admit that one is
short of the Almighty's expec
tations and then to state his firm
faith that in spite of this short
coming the Almighty answers the
prayers of His people.
COPYRIGHT 1974, JTA
din ind throughout the once
remote sheikhdoms and prin
cipalities of the Arabian penin
sula,” Kilborn reported.
The Arabs are also shaping up
as potential rivals to Israel for
American “aliyah" though they are
obviously tapping a different seg
ment of the population. According
to Nancy Ross writing in the
Washington Post, an "increasing
number of Arab Americans and
native-born Americans ... are be
ing lured by Middle East
governments” with job offers at
, salaries and fringe benefits far
above what they can earn at home.
“While the oil-producing countries
are putting their capital to work in
. the U.S. they are also putting U.S.
citizens to work in their capitals,”
Ross reported.
The Arab search for American
skills is usually conducted through
employment agencies. Ross
quoted one agency official as tell
ing her: “Our (Arab) clients told us
they had nothing against Jews per
se so long as they never brought up
Israel .. . But we recognize there is
a problem." Consequently, no
Jews need apply.
A question arises as to whether
there is sinister intent behind Arab
investments in the U.S. and the
parallel flow of American business
and personnel into the Arab coun
tries. Washington columnist
Clayton Fritchey took a bemused
view of the problem recently. “It
could be a false alarm,” Fritchey
wrote. “With the exercise of a little
discrimination, it would be the op
portunity of a lifetime to unload
dubious properties on the dollar-
loaded sheikhs. Why should
American taxpayers be called on
to bail out companies like
Lockheed Aircraft for instance if,
as it appears, the new oil
billionaires are eager to take over
or share the burden? Let us not
hastily deny them this privilege.”
But a more ominous picture was
presented by Fritchey’s colleague,
Jack Anderson. In a recent
column, Anderson exposed a “$7.7
million proposal to use U.S.
publications, TV shows, colleges
and even the opera to glorify Saudi
Arabia’s royal family." According
to Anderson, the plan is being
promoted by Raymond Mason,
head of a billion dollar American
conglomerate known as Charter
Corp., who is seeking oil deals with
King Faisal. Mason, who owns ten
percent of the stock in Downe
Communications which controls
the Ladies Home Journal, Family
Weekly and a string of radio
stations, is in a position to shower
the Saudian royal family with
favorable publicity, Anderson
said. He has already planted a
laudatory article and picture
spread in Family Weekly which
appears as a Sunday supplement in
more than 300 American
newspapers.
Mason’s plans, according to
Anderson, include Saudian con
tributions to the Metropolitan
Opera and $4 million to endow
professorships at four leading
American universities. He also
proposes a grand tour of the U.S.
for Saudian princes that would in
clude appearances on network
television and fetes by businessmen
and politicians.
The cost of all of this would run
into tens of millions of dollars. But
money is no object. The Arabs, es
pecially the Saudians can use an
image face-lifting in the U.S.
Memories of last winter’s gasoline
lines and the heating oil shortage
may have faded but they will revive
as the cold weather sets in and the
threats of another Middle East war
and a new Arab oil embargo
appear in the press.
Will the visage of a burnoosed
Saudian sheikh smiling from 100
million TV screens cause
Americans to blame inflated oil
prices on other than Arab sources?
Probably not, although the full
power of exposure has yet to be
plumbed. But if the present reces
sion worsens and inflation soars, if
there is another Mideast war and
oil embargo, if a confrontation
looms between the U.S. and Soviet
Union and if israel requires more
help — the grease of Arab oil
money may serve to ease a not too
subtle shift of American opinion.
As Richard Reeves observed in
a recent article in New York
magazine: “Gallup and Harris poll
support for Israel may look im
pressive, but that support is thin
and not particularly well in
formed."
COPYRIGHT 1975, JTA
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