The gates we helped to open have remained open. In the first 36 months of statehood. Israel gave sanctuary to 600.000 immigrants. from Europe and the Moslem world. and made plans to welcome another 600.000 in the next 3 years. Israels brief but dramatic history echoes the struggles of our own founding fathers to establish a free nation in the face of overwhelming military and economic odds. Just as the heroes of Concord and Lexington were pioneers in the wilderness of a new world. so the people of Israel are pioneers in the Old World. bringing the democratic way of life to a stagnant area. blighted by centuries of feudalism.
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