I think we can all take considerable satisaction in the recent efforts of the U. N.s Secretary General to press for negotiations ind for cooperative study by the Arabs and Israelis of their common problems. Insofar as the refugees are concerned. my )wn observations confirmed what my House 3olleagues have formally stated. namely. chat there is no real effort being made by .he Arabs to resettle these people. and conlitions in the camps are. if anything. worse :han they were when the camps were estab.ished. There are more refugees today than .here were 5 years ago. because of the birthate. and half of them are under the age of L5. Thus. if these people are not resettled .oon. if their eyes are not fixed on a better .uture. the poisonous bitterness of the elders will be fastened upon an entire new generaion and peace will be postponed for decades .o come. Thus far. the United Nations has .upported the camps at a cost of $190 million. >f which. I need hardly say. most has come rom the United States. We cannot continue o maintain this burden. for our own sake tnd for the sake of the refugees themselves. [here must be a positive program of reset.lement and such a program must be adiered to. But these programs must go forward withn the broad framework of an ArabIsrael jeace settlement. The refugee problem is )art and parcel of the broader problems of .he Near East and cannot be settled in a racuum. Vay I say. that it seems to me. there is no place on earth where there is so much hope and so much despair. so much serene faith. so much gnawing corrosive uncertainty. so much love made manifest through great creative work. so much respect for the worth and dignity of the individual. and also so much exploitation of human misery as in the Near East. The Promised Land is still the land of promise. but. even though I saw it all too briefly.
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Generalization that the refugees are not being resettled and are becoming more bitter.