Texas Jewish Post (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 29, No. 13, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 27, 1975 Page: 1 of 28
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jess jawin
Friends and Enemies
JTA-Jewish Telegraph Agency AJP• A merictm Jewish Press SAP-Seven A rts Features
WNS- World News Service JCNS-Jewish Chronicle News Service
We were sorry to hear of the death of King Faisal of Saudi Arabia who was
assassinated early Tuesday by a purported disgruntled nephew who grieved
over the murdering of his brother by Faisal’s henchmen during the late king’s
inauguration in 1964.
We are particularly sorry because death comes soon enough to all of us in the
finite end of life. Man should be orientated to the pursuits of construction and
helping his brothers instead of diminishing them through acts of violence.
However, one must measure the news against the facts past and present and
what this act portends for the future.
It’s been about a week ago (at this writing) that Secretary of State Henry
Kissinger jetted to Saudi Arabia to give King Faisal the latest developments in
the shuttle diplomacy that was derailed in the desert.
Newspaper accounts have been calling the late King Faisal “a friend of the
United States.”
Now, this has to be examined lest we are carried away with emotions which do
not balance with the facts at hand.
What are the facts?
Very simple: Faisal gained power by a 1964 coup against his brother, the late
King Saud. With the power, besides the richest known oil reserves in the world,
came the vast treasury on hand and the guaranteed $300 million a year which
became Faisal’s private money to use as he wished. This had nothing to do with
other monies gained from the further development of the country’s oil resources.
Fact number two is that Faisal was not a benevolent ruler as some dispatches
would have one believe. Slavery was a custom in Saudi Arabia. Penalties against
“lawbreakers” were severe and unjust. The vast masses of Arabs under his
domain lived in poverty. Had he used a small portion of his reserves for
upgrading the people in a democratic basis the desert could have been made to
bloom within a quarter century.
But this was not the case. Let us face the facts: Faisal was mainly interested in
retaining power. Feudal leaders as well as totalitarian regimes know that the
only way they can enforce their rule is through a strong secret police (which
Faisal had) and also by keeping the people divided and ignorant of the true
inventory of their land and its potential for all the inhabitants.
In order to keep his subjects from examining his regime and leadership too
closely, King Faisal had to have a whipping boy to stir them and keep them in
constant frenzy. The Jews of Israel provided the perfect case for Faisal. All he
had to do was preach his gospel of Holy Wars against Israel which he and his
officials did openly and the populace fell for it and reacted according to
predictions. If you’re concerned with the results of the sabre-rattling and
hate-mongering consider the fact that Israel has had to fight four major wars to
safeguard its independence and if one adds the declared War of Attrition started
by Pan-Arabia and financed with Faisal’s aid the total climbs to five.
There’s more: Faisal openly bankrolled the Arab terrorists and vowed that he
wouldn’t rest until all Israelis were off Palestinian soil and especially Jerusalem.
What was behind this? One would think that it was a devout effort to help Arabs
regain land that was taken from them without a provocation.
The answer to this is that war is one of man’s most destructive provocations.
The sadder fact is that Israelis who are pledged to and for peace-shalom-have to
stand up and kill in order to preserve their nation.
Forgotten is the fact that Arabs had been told to leave Israel because soon the
Arabs would conquer the Israelis and drive them into the sea and then the Arabs
who left would not only get the homes they deserted but also all the property
taken from the Jews who had been eliminated. Faisal supported this dogma.
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Kissinger Foils; But
Israel Won't Bend
To Threats of Fear
Secretary of State Henry Kissinger returned to the United States Sunday and almost
tearfully had to admit that his shuttle and express train diplomacy was derailed in the sands of
the desert, the city of Aswan and Cairo and in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. He had even met last
week with King Fhisall of Saudi Arabia who was assassinated early Tuesday morning.
After several weeks of hard negotiating, the Kissinger mission was scrapped and the next
stop for the negotiators is Geneva which may take place in May or later this summer
providing another round of fighting doesn’t break out.
Prime Minister of Israel Yitzhak Rabin received strong support from his cabinet for the
tough stand he has taken in the talks. He said that if Israel has to fight another war to
preserve her independence and security she is “alert to the peril” but he said it “is wrong to
treat war as a fatal and inevitable necessity.”
The Israeli Knesset voted keep its pledge in the salem and Washington that
92-4 in a resolution blaming observation of a strict cease President Ford had written
Egypt for the failure of the fire providing the Arabs did the Israeli Government a
second round of “step-by-step’’ likewise. scathing note blaming Israel
negotiations. The tiny opposi- for the breakdown in the
tion came from left wing Right Wing leader of the talks. Presidential press sec-
members. Likud Party in Israel, Mana- retary Ron Nesson denied this
Reiterating Israel’s intent hem Begin, said that more but said that notes were sent
to remain a sovereign nation , withdrawal by Israel would to both Israel and Egypt.
Rabin said, “There is no point lead to another Phnon Penh However, he would not state
in trying to.strike fear into us. and open up all of Israel’s what they contained.
Israel is aware of the dangers, cities to the range of Arab
it is ready and it has the guns. Kissinger made it clear in
strength it needs.” interviews that he did not
Meanwhile reports con- believe President Ford’s new
Rabin said that Israel would tinued to circulate in Jeru-
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King Faisal of Saudi Arabia
Assassinated by Nephew
Dallas Raises $5,524,000
As Holiday Halts Campaign
Approximately 250 Dallas Jewish Welfare Federation campaign leaders and workers met
last Sunday at Le Baron Hotel to mark a formal close to the 1975 campaign but not to
“campaigning” for additional funds.
To date Dallas Jews, organizations and other supporters of the Federation’s 1975 Fund Drive
have pledged $5,524,000 making it the second largest drive in Federation history. The largest
fund-raising effort was achieved following the Yom Kippur War of 1973 when $7,200,000 was
raised for charities and social services in Dallas, across the nation and for the world-wide life
saving efforts of the United Jewish Appeal.
Official radio reports The nephew, who was said proves that many Arab
emanating from the Saudi to be “unbalanced" by radio leaders have fallen victim to
Arabian capital Riyadh said reports, is one of thousands of the fratricide of their rela-
Continued on Page 20 that King Faisal, 69 year old relatives who had access to tions. Faisal, it was reported
absolute monarch who de- the inner circles of the in June, 1969, had been the
Although there is a respite in
the campaign because of the
Passover Holidays and thus a
culmination of the major
campaign efforts both Rick
Kollinger and Arnold Sweet,
campaign general co-chairman
said that the campaign would
not really be complete until
every card was solicited.
Kollinger said that the
combined efforts of the
younger people and the senior
leaders enabled Dallas to
achieve what it had after the
Federation was “faced with a
political situation in Israel,
and economic situation at
home and the catastrophic fire”
that destroyed the Federation
offices earlier this year just as
the drive was getting into
high gear.
Sweet said that more people
were being brought into the
campaign structure as
workers and leaders to help
develop future campaigns and
continue with the current
effort. “We’ve seen the
building of a base...and we’re
here to do a job we all
understand. We haven’t
raised enough and we're not
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murdered king.
By rule of succession,
within hours his younger
brother, Crown Prince Khaled
Ign Abdul Aziz, 62, was
proclaimed king. Khaled im-
mediately named another
brother Prince Fahd, 53, as
the new crown prince to
succeed him.
Calling himself a “friend” of
the United States (see jess
| jawin), Faisal pledged all his
enormous wealth toward the
destruction of Israel and said
he wanted to recover all of
Israeli occupied territory so
he could pray in Jerusalem
i before he died.
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The richest oil ruler in the
THE LATE KING FAISAL ^
posed his older brother as had to eat especially prepared object of a coup d’etat/assas-
ruler in 1964, had been killed meat and cooked or stewed sination attempt by the
by one of his nephews under fruits and vegetables. military. The government
the guise of congratulating Although first reports indi- denied the reports but they
him on the anniversary of cated that the assassination persisted and about 2,000
Prophet Mohammed’s birth- was an isolated incident caused army otticers involved were
day. by a sick relation, history arrested according to sources.
THE NEW KING KHALED
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