This is neither a loan nor a grant. it simply permits Israel to borrow at more favorable rates. We have. it seems to me. a moral obligation to assist in this manner. The necessity of building new housing and creating new jobs is a result of the acceptance of refugees from the Soviet Union and Ethiopia. It has for years been a major policy of this country to press the Soviet Union to permit Jews to emigrate. This resettlement serves our national policy. and illustrates dramatically a historic purpose of the State of Israel. a place where persecuted Jews may come as a matter of right to a homeland. The President of the United States has expressed a desire to delay consideration of this guarantee until January.
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