Moses did not stop with lifting his hands aloft. but led his people across the sea bed into safety. It may be a rather unusual analogy. but we have in a way parted a modernday Red Sea for the Jews living in Russia. I do not think we can simply stop with opening the doors to emigration. We must make sure that a right to emigrate is a right that can be used by anyone who so desires. For unless a right can be used freely. it is meaningless and may as well not exist. Schonau Castle is vital to the effort to save Soviet Jewry. I call on Prime Minister Kreisky. and I urge my colleagues to join me. to reverse his decision so that Jewish emigration from the Soviet Union will not be disrupted for even one day.
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