Now. this is the message the administration is sending to the Arab leaders today even as the negotiations are going on. and it is a very destructive message. because there is not a man or woman in this room who really believes that the Israelis are going to let themselves be delivered into a state of insecurity. They will not pay that price for the $10 billion of loan guarantees or for anything else. For decades the United States has been demanding for Soviet Jews the right to emigrate to the country of their choice and most of them have gone to Israel. The United States has been a stalwart supporter of such emigration. and the United States has always promised aid. Now. when the time has come and the Soviets have opened the gates to their Jewish populationand nobody knows how long those gates will stay openand when there is a stream of Russian immigrants coming to Israel in the next 3. 4. 5 years that is estimated at a million or more. almost half of whom have advanced degrees in science. mathematics. engineering. and brilliant musicians by the thousands. the United States is reneging on its solemn promise. is turning its back on Israel and is telling Israel. "Now. we are going to attach a condition. If you want our aid. you must stop the settlements." For the United States to now apply conditionality to their willingness to extend the $10 billion loan guarantee. to my mind. is a shameful abandonment of the United States obligation to Israel and the Russian Jewish community. Why apply conditionality for loan guarantees only to Israel.
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