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Palestinians never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.

Abba Eban

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
Human beings act intelligently only after they have exhausted the alternatives
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Alternatives Exhausted Human Intelligent
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
Consensus is what many people say in chorus but do not believe as individuals.
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Belief Believe Chorus Individual People Say
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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Country Nobody Proclaiming
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
A nation writes its history in the image of its ideal.
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Diversity History Ideal Justice Nation Write Writing
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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Contribute Feed Group Horse Research Scared Science Worship
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
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
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
A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually.
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Agrees Belief Collectively Individually Mean Sarcastic
Palestinians never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.
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Miss Missing never Opportunity Palestinian
Better to be disliked than pitied.
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Better Dislike Wish
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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Ear Elegance Glued Movement Neither Permanently Posture Statesman

Palestinians never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.

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