U.S.-Arab Relations
Saudi Arabia’s former oil minister Sheik Ahmed Zaki Yamani best describes his country’s contribution to Middle East peace. While addressing a Georgetown University audience in November, Yamani suggested that U.S. reliance on gulf oil was in the interest of the U.S. and Western Europe in order to keep Israel accountable on human rights violations and flexible in making land for peace concessions. He said that this formula would minimize the risk of another OPEC oil embargo.
What’s a little blackmail and extortion among friends?
NANCY JO SHELDON
Los Angeles
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