It is important to remember. Mr. President. that for decades. the United States has applied pressure. the United States encouraged the Soviet Union to open up to allow freedom of emigration for those who had suffered persecution and repression for their religious beliefs. Now we won that case. and the very reforms in Soviet law which have allowed for a record flow of emigrants. we now have a humanitarian obligation. having encouraged that for so many years. to support their absorption into Israel. To do any less is to abandon a principled cause. the cause of religious freedom. In addition. we would be abandoning that cause when no money is at stake.
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