These 25 years. much like the first 25 years of our Nations history. were not easy times. but rather were times that required individual and national sacrifice for an ideal that has come under repeated attack around the worlddemocracy. The similarity between Israels struggle and our own does not stop with a comparison of governmental systems. As our country was built by emigrants fleeing religious prejudice and political repression. so was Israel. Its open arms extended to Jews in Russia waiting to emigrate and all people wishing to be repatriated to their traditional homeland will offer scholars a subject of study for years to come. At this point. Israel also faces a problem that we in this country have had to deal with since our foundingthat of the integration of different racial and national groups while. at the same time. the maintenance of ethnic identity that is the very hallmark of the tolerance of a free society.
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