Our intention to regard the closing of the Straits as a casus belli was communicated…to the foreign ministers of those states which had supported international navigation in the Straits in 1957 and thereafter.
ABBA EBANPalestinians never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.
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It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.
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Tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss.
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Consensus is what many people say in chorus but do not believe as individuals.
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One of the chief tasks of any dialogue with the Gentile world is to prove that the distinction between anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism is not a distinction at all.
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A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually.
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Zionism is nothing more, but also nothing less, than the Jewish People’s sense of origin and destination in the Land linked eternally with its name.
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Playing the game I have learned the meaning of humility. It has given me an understanding of futility of the human effort.
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Tragedy is the difference between what is and what could have been.
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Israel is not an aviary.
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Human beings act intelligently only after they have exhausted the alternatives
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His ignorance is encyclopedic.
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A nation writes its history in the image of its ideal.
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The Jews are the living embodiment of the minority, the constant reminder of what duties societies owe their minorities, whoever they might be.
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It [idolatry] nourishes mans ambition to domineer over his fellow man. Idolatry, therefore, is the source of all social and moral evil in the world.
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Palestinians never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.
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