In agreeing with the late President Kennedy. Abram asks us. "What is peace. after all. but a matter of human rights?" Right now. Soviet Jews are caged within their own country. denied the opportunity to emigrate. They. like so many other persecuted groups in the world. are looking to the United States for help. Unfortunately. our protests to the Soviet Government have often turned against us. Soviet officials accuse us of hypocrisy. and a lack of our own commitment to human rights. using our failure to ratify the Genocide Convention as an example. Mr. Abram tells us that. "there probably is no simple explanation for the sharp drop in Jewish emigration or simple cure for the problem." Yet. Abram adds. "as bad as things are. there is going to be some break in the clouds some day." The Genocide Convention seeks to outlaw the most heinous act known to mankind: The attempt to eliminate in whole or in part a national ethnical. racial. or religious group. It also assures that these criminals will be tried and punished.
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