In addition. these guarantees will benefit the American economy during this long and painful recession. Currently 85 percent of aid to Israel Is spent here in the United States. creatIng jobs and boosting local economies. The influx of Soviet and Ethiopian immigrants has already provided a boost to the United States prefabricated housing industry. These guarantees will swell Israeli imports of United States goods to an estimated $30 billion over the next 5 years. Foremost. I support the provision of these guarantees based on humanitarian considerations. Recently I chaired a hearing commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Wansee Conference. where the leaders of Hitlers Germany laid out the formal plans for the extermination of European Jewry. This experience reminded me again that we must never forget. the Israeli people are all refugees who have been cruelly persecuted for centuries. For many years. the United States pressed the Soviet Union to allow free Jewish immigration to Israel. Now. when hundreds of thousands of Jews have left these republics and are sleeping in tents. without heat or plumbIng. we should not decline to follow through on our commitment to help--especially when that help could be offered at no cost to United States taxpayers.
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The Israeli people are all refugees who have been cruelly persecuted for centuries.