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 EBANOne 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.
More Abba Eban Quotes
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Palestinians never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.
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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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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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His ignorance is encyclopedic.
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Human beings act intelligently only after they have exhausted the alternatives
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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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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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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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It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.
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Better to be disliked than pitied.
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Consensus is what many people say in chorus but do not believe as individuals.
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Israel is not an aviary.
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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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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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