Chairman. if the gentleman will yield. I would like to raise the question about section 14. That is the section that makes available the $20 million to help pay for the Soviet refugees. that is. as far as people emigrating to Israel. As I think the chairman of the subcommittee knows. I strongly support that section because I think it is necessary for this nation to help the refugees around the world to the extent that we can. But as I indicated to the gentleman in deliberations in the committee. I think it is important to specify that funds that are being used in Israel to resettle Soviet Jews should be used for construction. and education and health for these refugees in Israel proper and not in the occupied territories. I think and I hope that the gentleman will agree that it would be unwise for this body to take any action that prejudges the territorial issue that should be subject to negotiation by the parties and. therefore. I hope it is the intention in section 14 that the funds authorized therein will be used in Israel and not in the occupied territories.
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