Salvation, the prophets tell us, is preconditioned by repentance. The redeeming act of God waits upon man’s initiative.
ABBA EBANSalvation, the prophets tell us, is preconditioned by repentance. The redeeming act of God waits upon man’s initiative.
ABBA EBANPalestinians never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.
ABBA EBANA consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually.
ABBA EBANPlaying the game I have learned the meaning of humility. It has given me an understanding of futility of the human effort.
ABBA EBANA nation writes its history in the image of its ideal.
ABBA EBANTragedy is the difference between what is and what could have been.
ABBA EBANOne 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.
ABBA EBANIt is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.
ABBA EBANTragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss.
ABBA EBANThe Jews are the living embodiment of the minority, the constant reminder of what duties societies owe their minorities, whoever they might be.
ABBA EBANHistory teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
ABBA EBANLest 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.
ABBA EBANA statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement.
ABBA EBANIsrael is not an aviary.
ABBA EBANHuman beings act intelligently only after they have exhausted the alternatives
ABBA EBANOur 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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