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Palestinians never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.

Abba Eban

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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Achievement Change Detached Effective Somehow Way
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
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
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
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
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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History Love Peace Sued Thinking Unconditional Victor War
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
A nation writes its history in the image of its ideal.
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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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God Initiative Men Prophet Salvation Waiting
Israel is not an aviary.
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His ignorance is encyclopedic.
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Clever Encyclopedia Ignorance Sarcastic
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
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

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