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W are confident in our capacity to do so. just as we are certain that in existing circumstances this is the way to avoid war. This is the way. therefore. to create the conditions in which a peacemaking process can develop. In pursuance of our open door policy toward Jewish immigration during the past 18 years. Israel has received close to 1.400.000 Jewish immigrantshalf of them from Europe and half from the Arab lands. It has demonstrated that effective economic development policies could provide ample room In Israel for those who have come. and for many more. At the end of its first 18 years Israel has a population of two and a half million.