The Arizona post., 1957-08-23

hinges on the prospects OF a True peace
in the Middle East
SINCE ISRAEL cannot afford to
base her economy on this hope the in
terest in developing "homeg grown" oil is apparent.
Especially when the British Oil companies have now
announced their intention to withdraw from selling
oil in Israel.
With the Soviet Union having cancelled unilater-
ally it's agreement to supply to Israel onefifth of her
crude needs, Israel is dependent now on oil bought
in Venezuela and in the United States.
HOWEVER, this oil must be paid for in Amer
lean dollars which is in extremely short supply in
the Jewish state. The total production of 100000
barrels year from Israeli oil fields in Heletz and
Brur satisfies only about six percent of ISraePS total
requirements for petroleum products and about eight
percent of her crude needs Hope is therefore laid
on the drilling which is going in HeletZ and Brur
region for oil wells and the investors which
have oil rights in seven other areas.
AT THIS TIME, the investors are actively ex-
poring for oil in all but two of these areas. Accord
ing geologists the region of Israel with the great
est promise for oil adjoins the Dead Sea.
INSIDE WASHINGTON: Vice President Nixon
had very interesting private meeting with small
group of leaders of national Jewish organizations
Also present at the meetng-which took the form
of an informal dinner-Were several of Mr.. NiXon'S
close advisors
Naturally the question of Israel came up dur
ing the conversations Mr. Nixon expressed the opn-
ion that it would make a good impression If Israel
agreed to re-admit 100000 Palestine Arab refugees
SOME OF THE Jewish leaders present explained
to him that goodwill gesture of this kind may poss
IDLY be made by Israel but only in the course OF Arab
Israel talks not before. They pointed out to the
Vice President that the question of admission OF some
of Palestine Arabs to Israel must be looked upon as
a bargaining point.
1T WOULD, naturally, be to Israel's complete dis
advantage if the bargaining value of the readmsslon
of certain number of Arabs were lost through
move preceding negotiations between the Arab coun-
tries and Israel Incidentally information reaching
Washington reveals that the King of Jordan seems
to have decided that the Arab refugee camps in his
country must be liquidated.
It turns out that when Col. Nasser of Egypt
tried to oust the Jordanian King recently through
mob violence and intrigue, it was discovered that
Nasser had strong consprators in the refugee camps
THE KING will have to dissolve the camps if he
wishes to uudate the source of most opposition to
his regime within his own country. Even more i'm
portant is information reaching Washington that
Iraq has begun to quietly absorb Palestine Arabs
from the refugee camps in Jordan. The flow OF Arabs
from the Jordanian camps into Iraq has been going
on for some time but this fact has been kept secret
by Arab politicians. Iraq is in the throes OF a tre-
mendous development and needs working hands,
Hence she embarked quietly on policy OF bring
ing over from Jordan the Palestine refugees IN order
to alleviate the shortage of skilled labor.
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