The United States helped these people take the first step on their journey to freedom. We have a moral obligation not to abandon them now. Israel has welcomed these Soviet Jews with open arms--offering them a better way of life and an opportunity to raise their children in the Jewish homeland. free from the historic persecution of Jews by the Soviet state. Faced with the enormous task of absorbing these new immigrants. the Israeli Government sought from us loans. not additional aid. Instead. the Bush administration turned away. Let us remember: We are talking about the resettlement of Soviet Jews.
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