President. this is the Israel I have always admired and supported. This is the government that the vibrant Israeli people elected to respond to the increasingly disparaging circumstances that were supporting them. I have never supported the Republican administrations unconscionable linkage of loan guarantees for immigrant absorption to progress on the peace process. I have continuously advocated for immediate approval of $10 billion in loan guarantees to let the Israelis move forward in their challenging humanitarian task of absorbing hundreds of thousands of refugees. Jewish immigration from Ethiopia and the U.S.S.R. to Israel had been a cornerstone of our foreign policy for over 20 years. I have always believed that as the prime advocates for freedom of emigration the United States has an obligation to help resolve the almost insurmountable problems that Israel. a tiny country of 4 million people. necessarily faces in trying to absorb one million immigrants. If any country can meet this challenge. Israel has demonstrated that it could.
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