Palestinians never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.
ABBA EBANZionism 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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Salvation, the prophets tell us, is preconditioned by repentance. The redeeming act of God waits upon man’s initiative.
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His ignorance is encyclopedic.
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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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Better to be disliked than pitied.
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Tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss.
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Israel is not an aviary.
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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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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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A nation writes its history in the image of its ideal.
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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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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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Tragedy is the difference between what is and what could have been.
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Human beings act intelligently only after they have exhausted the alternatives
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A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually.
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History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
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