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Tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss.

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
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
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
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
Better to be disliked than pitied.
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Better Dislike Wish
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
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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Arab Government Impulsive Men Missing Rejection Routine Rush Sheer Tempted
Consensus is what many people say in chorus but do not believe as individuals.
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Belief Believe Chorus Individual People Say
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
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
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
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
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 consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually.
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Agrees Belief Collectively Individually Mean Sarcastic
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

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