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.
ABBA EBANLest 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.
More Abba Eban Quotes
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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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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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Consensus is what many people say in chorus but do not believe as individuals.
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Human beings act intelligently only after they have exhausted the alternatives
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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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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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Salvation, the prophets tell us, is preconditioned by repentance. The redeeming act of God waits upon man’s initiative.
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Palestinians never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.
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Tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss.
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A nation writes its history in the image of its ideal.
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History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
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Tragedy is the difference between what is and what could have been.
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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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Better to be disliked than pitied.
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