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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.

Abba Eban

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.
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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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Tragedy is the difference between what is and what could have been.
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Could Difference Happen Tragedy
Tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss.
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History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
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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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Lest Arab governments be tempted out of sheer routine to rush into impulsive rejection, let me suggest that tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss.
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Science is not a sacred cow. Science is a horse. Don’t worship it. Feed it. [Addressing a group of prospective contributors to an Israeli scientific research program]
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A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement.
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Palestinians never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.
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Salvation, the prophets tell us, is preconditioned by repentance. The redeeming act of God waits upon man’s initiative.
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Human beings act intelligently only after they have exhausted the alternatives
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Nobody does Israel any service by proclaiming its ‘right to exist.’ Israel’s right to exist, like that of the United States, Saudi Arabia and 152 other states, is axiomatic and unreserved.
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Consensus is what many people say in chorus but do not believe as individuals.
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You can’t achieve anything without getting in someone’s way. You can’t be detached and effective.
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A nation writes its history in the image of its ideal.
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