Mr. Speaker. today we celebrate the 18th anniversary of Israels independence. When we count the achievements of that small but mighty bastion of democracy in the Middle East. we can only be amazed by the great achievements that determination and dedication have produced in so short a time. Immigrants fleeing from intolerable. conditions in all parts of the world. thirsting for freedom. driven by insecurity and persecution. sought refuge in a homeland both new and oldIsrael. As pioneers. they made the desert bloom. I Irving Miller. "Israel: the Eternal Ideal" (New York. Farrar. Straus & Cudahy. 1955). p. viii. They transformed a wasteland into a homeland which produced not only food and sustenance. but which quickly developed industries. formerly unknown.
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