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AVoice Cries Out:
Arab Oil, Israel
and the U.S.
-Peace Out of Conflict??
T
HE HOT SPOT of world
news recently has
been the Middle East. It
has involved the S2 lJ.S. hos
tages in Iran. It has involved
Arab oil. And it has involved
the Arah-Israel struggle.
Could
it
he thill our or this
embroiling caldron of ;>,]iddle East
emot inns and historir hat red� \�
beginning to etnerg{' 3 new ,·ision
uf world peace and happ,· abun
dance"
(n ;=i, worlci who:,;e '.'\o. I prublPm now
is human <..urvi.. -.11- in � wnrlrl n!
('{nnJwtitive pn·parnti1jn� for a \,·,irld
war of nuclp:u \\'rapnns. dwmical war
fare, pnison ga:-. and nnve gas-- a ,...,ar
tapahlr or ernsih� all lire fr()m this
plane-I. it\; alrra<l
:v
<1 hit ];He for lh all tn
twrome intt
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nsPIV concernf'd
I repeat a�11in rm<i afwin, lhere ha . -. tn
hf' a C. \l ·
_...;f: for evnv etfeet. There is .J.
basic c l\l '
�R fi ,r m·ankind · s proh\P1
T
1s
man is incapable ol'
solving. Thf're is.
('onversrl�. a wav that cnu\<l CA1·:--F
prace. universal pn,sprrity and well
hf'ing1
\'ny re-rt:-n\\y l rt ' lurned frnm pt•rson·
&\ ronfere-nces \\·ltl-i Prirnr Mini,;;,ier
Menarhem Bt->gin in .feru:-;aJem, crnd
Prf'sidenl Anwar el-Sad.ai in Cairo
Could it he possible thr�e two �-
1iddle
Ea3l learler':'. hrwp starH•rl s.rnnethin�
,;\ ' ilh Pu,:a:.irlent Car\er at the Carnp
David conference� that tina!ly shnw the
world the wav lo CAIISF. PEACJ.:?
And not o�ly \1iddlr Ea�, prace, hut
world pl•ace
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T\-
w E�yptian pre-?.i.dent j!<.
We me
detail:-. uf'
his proposed :-!!,70 million
World PraceCenter to be en•ctrd at the
hase of '.\1t. Sinai . symholi{'
of rwace
hetween nations a.nd twtween rrli
{!:
ioris
Religim1s antagonisms have caused
many war-" through world histor_v. HiF.
new peace cent{'r will consist of a
,...·ailed-in complt>li. including a mnc;que.
a syna.�ng:ue and a church. emblt
>
matic
ilf ' peac-P hetween the three rnajnr reli
gions pn,
•dominant in the three nation!,
invnlwd in tlw (':nnp J),1,irl talks.
l rrpi'af. tlwrt> is one ri int nrn..:.P ol
w;1r,: nut onl\'. hut ,111 thi-.; W1lrld':- :-l't'!ll
ing/\ 11/ls(Jl\-
tihl(' tr(,11hle� ,ind e,i!-;. J
ff'rJ;) it. for hrt•\itv, 1he w.n nf "ta · :T' •_
sf'lf -crntpredrw�s.· and hosiilf' ,·nmpf ' ti
ti()n lf-';lding lo striff'. violenCl', war ,md
destrudi1�11. The opposite v.-·av I trrm
··,:1u: ·· 1·nopt'r;1lion, h1•lping. sharing.
nll1g11\ng roncnn iur t\w gn,,d arnl ri�hl:-
nl other;-;
WtwrP t'motlonal hn,;tility has prf'
,·�1iled li,,wn Jhro11gh the cenlurles. onl_ v
\'isinn. wi!lingrwss fn sal-ritice ("c1q,:'·,
anrl 1wrsnn,1\ ( ' 11\lfal!f' \n lf'tl(lersh.ip
cnulci start the way t1lward peace
While she was prime ministn ol
I.::rael, (;,dda Meir said to me in ht:'f
executl\e olfi('e: "[ \.\ ' ish Arnl1 twa<ls ol
statC' would he wlllin?: tn ,;lt on the (1ther
side of the ta.hie with me in l '
rif'n(\,-hip
and peace. Thne is :-.o mu('h we could <ln
fnr their pt:nples. Ot,r :-.cienfr.:ts and
te( "hnicic1ns cnuld help them and tfwlr
peuplt:>s to �o much more prosperit\ and
,1hurnL,1nce."
On l\"nn•rnhn :!D, 1977, Presirlf'nf
Sadat h<-Hf the \i.::ion and the courngf' tu
takf' the unheard-t,f. unpreredented
slt
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p to DECI.AHF' PF.An instead ol
war tL)WaTd hrap\_ On that date this
lea<ln, brnving pnsnnal and political
ri ,
-,
k seldom if ever taken b\'
a world
lea<ln, went tn .lerusalf'm a11(t"addressed
I hr brrieli h:nt>sset in a jlesturc toward
1wcwr
Eg-_
v
pt had li1ught (:-;me/ in tiflJr wars
\'\
iithln :10 vears_ It was an innedihl.-.
demons! rill ion of per�rnnal nHirage
Egypt was tht' acknowl.-.clg-ed leader of
th,_• Arahworld. Ttw head4l1arter� of the
Arah League was in l'airn.
Pr()mirn·nt Egyptian lf,adns and Pdi
l(1r,; ahnfad wPrf' as:c.:a.::.sln,1.t-ed t'
,1lh1winK
this initial pf:'are ,.tPsfurf'. Sad,-ir's life
wets thrf'alencd.
:\t'
tf'f re,·t•ivlng 111ilitar_v aid from the
�n\iPt I ·
11i1 ,n, 1-'rPsidt•nt �ad,11 had can
ci:-'lrrl l hi:-.: pnigram and nrdPrl'd �oviPt
nlilitar� aidt'� om t\t Egypt. �in.vi;' Hft;'
\lr. �a(bt and Egypt wPn• left with
tlw :- - lll1• partner:-.hip amnnf.( n;-1tion:-.: ol
the l 'nitt>d �tales
nwn ram<' lhP ('amp D:n - i<l peace
1c1\h. \lr. Ht>gin _i(1int•d \ . lr. Sadat in
part\('ip,\tin�. h \:,:. n\1t t.•a'.'-,y ti\ Ki\"
t> \ll)
snmt•thing nllP ha:,; gainP<l. Hul \fr
Hq .:ln �aw· brg-r p(1rtions of the Sinai
J
j
e11i11. ula had: 10 E�ypt. , \-nw rhe!'.e
nwn arP \ookin� \Pwarrl rr;: . 1>\vin� the
tn11dl\ ·
qt1Pstion ol'
autnnom\ of thP
\\'h� ·H,rnk and lhe Can\ Slrip
And l'rrsident :,.:;adat plan" hi:,; World
f'pa(·t- ( 'enter emhlPrnatic nl" r -noprration
In \W<W-E' at dw hasf' 11{ i\·11. �1n;\\
It is all a BF:CIN!'-ISG of the wav of
· ·(;J\E.. - of cooperation instrad of hostili
t: - ·. I (llr 1mt' rnmmf'n<l �n<l g-
i\"e honor
puhlicly to these men making a beginning
ln a harsh world nf "cr.T'" tq the qni? and
only way to peace - that nf "' c;1\'f·:." [ am
n11t naive E"nough lo expect all leaders and
all pt>uples to follow in that wa�'.
\\. . '°' ha\"e in this \.\-
'orld the wa\' (hat
kads to tlw ecs1n:,;y r
j
f winnln� and the
n�on_\' uf df'li"at. Ton Jn/lll_\ .--.t iH thin!,;
1{w_\ en_ iuy fhe "pc.,tas_v." ,·md ;,re "·
illing
to risk thf' "agnny." I hnp12 the�e pages
are causing some to l '
!ll�tt.:'.
Herausts. apN' nt tYtc-agT"t>P, lh:1s vnlre
is S(1undinj! th12 warnlng. lf we mortal
human:> dnn'f. if is n•ry soon now go
ing to he done to us
1
That unsPen
··�tron� Hand from Somepla('
t'. , is going
tn intervene in world affair:,,. and fflrn· a
stubborn humanity to enj11.v pea<'e , hap
pines:- and univer�al abundance His
wav. the way t,f "<;r\E ·
HJ . :RHF.RT
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AH\iSTHO�',"{;
Pastor General
\\'nrldwide Church of C·od
l suggpst you rt'ad my CO\ '
N '>lorv in <lue.,ul·O, on nf'"W'-�\<'tnd� ahnu1 \.farrh
:10. on thP J\.·ti<ldle Ei.l,-1 fnnlrowr�v, its origin and President Sadat's
plannf'd World Peacr- ('t:•nter. (J1w�t/.�! i-; quite g-enerally reKardt-d nnw as
No. I in the qualitv m,lg-a 1 . ine li(•ld a puhl1cation adv<><: '
ating ··the pursuit
nl'
e-xs_·t - llence"
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