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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.

Abba Eban

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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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
Better to be disliked than pitied.
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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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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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You can’t achieve anything without getting in someone’s way. You can’t be detached and effective.
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History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
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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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Tragedy is the difference between what is and what could have been.
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It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.
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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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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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Israel is not an aviary.
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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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