The United States and Israel are poised at a historic moment. For over two decades. our Government made the freedom of Soviet Jewry a central tenet of our foreign policy toward the U.SS.R. Now that we have succeeded in raising the Iron Curtain for emigration we are now missing the opportunity to assist and to encourage this historic. humanitarian effort--the successful absorption of these Jewish emigrees into Israel. The anticipated emigration of I million Jews to Israel between 1990 and 1995 represents nothing less than the fulfillment of Israels destiny as a homeland and safehaven for Jews throughout the world. However. it is an economic challenge which Israel cannot meet on its own faced with such an awesome task. Israel needs credit guarantees that will help provide the Infrastructure to make the successful absorption of these new immigrants possible. We have a difficult task before usconvincing the administration that these loan guarantees are not tied to the successful culmination of the peace process. Attempting to link the fate of the humanitarian absorption credit guarantees to the political complexities of the peace process is the most vexing aspect of reaching an accommodation with the administration.
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