The use of economic sanctions in international politics is not an Arab innovation. We ourselves have not shrunk from economic "blackmail" in dealing with such countries as Cuba. Chile. North Vietnam. and for that matter the Soviet Union by withholding credits and mostfavorednation trade treatment. There is no objective moral difference between American trade sanctions as a lever on Soviet emigration policy and Arab oil sanctions as a lever on American policy toward Israel. Arabs. like Americans. believe themselves to be using sanctions for a noble cause. There is. however. a political distinction. and one might as well be brutally frank about it.
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