Norman D. Tilles, national commander of the Jewish War Veterans, warned Monday that the impending energy crisis facing the United States must not be used as a weapon over Israel’s head to force an unfavorable peace settlement with the Arabs. For years, he said, “Arabists in the State Department and elsewhere have been using our need for Arab oil as an argument that the U.S. must treat the Arabs with kid gloves.” But, he noted, it is in the Arabs’ interest “to supply the U.S. oil as much as it is in our interest to buy it, so the sword cuts both ways and Israel need not be the victim of an international energy crunch.”
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