The subcommittee has provided ample funds in the ESF and FMF accounts to fully meet our Camp David commitments to Israel and Egypt and has made it very clear in this bill that it expects the administration to disperse these funds as it has in the past. Israel is the United States most important ally in the Middle East. More importantly. it is a haven for refugees from the former Soviet Union and Ethiopia. where they have been persecuted. both officially and unofficially. for hundreds of years. The funding that the United States provides to Israel helps it maintain its qualitative military edge in a region where all but one of its neighbors refuse to recognize its right to exist. It also assists the Israelis in assimilating the huge number of new arrivals and provide decent housing and economic opportunity for them.
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