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Tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss.

Abba Eban

I think that this is the first war in history that on the morrow the victors sued for peace and the vanquished called for unconditional surrender.
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History Love Peace Sued Thinking Unconditional Victor War
Salvation, the prophets tell us, is preconditioned by repentance. The redeeming act of God waits upon man’s initiative.
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God Initiative Men Prophet Salvation Waiting
Israel is not an aviary.
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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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Arab Government Impulsive Men Missing Rejection Routine Rush Sheer Tempted
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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Cairo Closing Communicate Doubt Foreign Intention Minister Regard State Strait War
You can’t achieve anything without getting in someone’s way. You can’t be detached and effective.
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Achievement Change Detached Effective Somehow Way
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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Ambition Domineer Evil Idolatry Man Nourish Social Source
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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His ignorance is encyclopedic.
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A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually.
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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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Experience Leader Leadership Mean Opposite Political
If Algeria introduced a resolution declaring that the earth was flat and that Israel had flattened it, it would pass by a vote of 164 to 13 with 26 abstentions.
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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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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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Tragedy is the difference between what is and what could have been.
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