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A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually.

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
Tragedy is the difference between what is and what could have been.
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Could Difference Happen Tragedy
Palestinians never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.
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Miss Missing never Opportunity Palestinian
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
Human beings act intelligently only after they have exhausted the alternatives
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Alternatives Exhausted Human Intelligent
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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Jewish Land More Nothing People
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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Constant Embodiment Jews Minority Reminder Society
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
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Alternative Behave Exhausted Funny History Men Sarcastic Teach War Wise
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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Dialogue Distinction Task World
Israel is not an aviary.
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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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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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Declare Earth Flat Flattered Introduce Vote
Better to be disliked than pitied.
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Better Dislike Wish
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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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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A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually.
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Agrees Belief Collectively Individually Mean Sarcastic

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