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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.

Abba Eban

Palestinians never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.
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Miss Missing never Opportunity Palestinian
His ignorance is encyclopedic.
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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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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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Salvation, the prophets tell us, is preconditioned by repentance. The redeeming act of God waits upon man’s initiative.
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A nation writes its history in the image of its ideal.
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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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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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Israel is not an aviary.
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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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Tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss.
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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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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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History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
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Better to be disliked than pitied.
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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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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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