Saudi Arabia will resume within two years use of its oil weapon against the Western world, members of a mission of the Council for a Secure America (CSA) told a press conference here today.
The CSA advocates policies aimed at assuring the survival and growth of America’s domestic energy industry and a broader base of American support for Israel.
Mack Wallace, co-chairman of CSA, noted that Sheik Yamani, the Saudi Arabian oil minister, had declared two years ago that Saudi Arabia planned to use its petro-weapon in 1987. Wallace said the oil minister was looking at the same figures “as we do.”
The CSA brought together, in the United States, two groups which share a concern that America’s commitment to Israel be able to withstand the tests of current economic energy pressures and future energy crises and who agree that continued domestic energy production is the only way to assure that American security would not be held hostage to oil from overseas sources.
He said the “unique coalition” between the American Friends of Israel, a Jewish group, and a group of oil men in Texas was organized to give energy-producing states more power in Congress. He said that while the oil men joined the partnership for economic reasons, the Jews joined because they felt such a coalition was a prerequisite to assuring United States independence from Arab oil pressures.
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