What does that have to do with Americas moral obligations to human beings who have been persecuted. which persecutions formed a part of the reason for our going into World War II? There was still an obligation on the part of the United States to do something for the inhabitants of those displaced persons camps by assisting in bringing them to lands of freedom. even if it happened to be truewhich it was notthat a .majority of them were Jews. A large number of them were Jews. and in respect to those. the State of Israel. at that time known as Palestine. came to the assistance of the socalled Jewish refugees. and. in spite of strong British oppositionand let us not forget the role that Great Britain played in 1946 and 1947 in connection with this problemin spite of British opposition and British attempts to prevent those refugees from landing on the shores of Palestine. thousands upon thousands of them sought Palestine as a source of refuge. I think the people of Palestine wrote a glorious and thrilling chapter in the history of world humanitarianism by putting into effect the Biblical teaching that. after all. we human beings are our brothers keeper. A homeland was provided for those refugees. and. to the extent that the people of Palestine took care of those refugees. they assumed a burden of moral obligation which was also partly the burden of the United States and the burden of every other nation in the world that believed in personal freedom. human dignity. and human decency. In my judgment. Mr.
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