And any objective observer must at least suspect that the Russian solution to the Jewish question has its antecedents in Nazi harshness. There are some 3 million Jews in the Soviet Union. Many. if not most. desperately seek and need the hope of emigration to Israel. If the Soviet Union persists in its present policies. that hope is destroyed. Too many generations of Jews have lived and died without hope for the Russian Jews to lightly turn away from their hope. As one of the defendants said in his defense. the question of whether these defendants did or did not think about seizing an airplane to use for escape to Israel was only relevant. because the Soviet authorities have consistently refused exit visas to Jews. Jews all over the world are at the Wailing Wall. They first seek to persuade the Russians to respect the fundamental processes of law which do not stop at national borders.
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