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Palestinians never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.

Abba Eban

It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.
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Experience Leader Leadership Mean Opposite Political
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
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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Cairo Closing Communicate Doubt Foreign Intention Minister Regard State Strait War
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
You can’t achieve anything without getting in someone’s way. You can’t be detached and effective.
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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
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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Human beings act intelligently only after they have exhausted the alternatives
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Alternatives Exhausted Human Intelligent
Better to be disliked than pitied.
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Better Dislike Wish
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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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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Effort Futility Game Golf Humility Learn Life Playing
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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Tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss.
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His ignorance is encyclopedic.
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History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
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