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.
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.
ABBA EBANPalestinians never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.
ABBA EBANIt [idolatry] nourishes mans ambition to domineer over his fellow man. Idolatry, therefore, is the source of all social and moral evil in the world.
ABBA EBANIsrael is not an aviary.
ABBA EBANYou can’t achieve anything without getting in someone’s way. You can’t be detached and effective.
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 EBANHistory teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
ABBA EBANConsensus is what many people say in chorus but do not believe as individuals.
ABBA EBANIf 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.
ABBA EBANHuman beings act intelligently only after they have exhausted the alternatives
ABBA EBANTragedy is the difference between what is and what could have been.
ABBA EBANA nation writes its history in the image of its ideal.
ABBA EBANHis ignorance is encyclopedic.
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.
ABBA EBANBetter to be disliked than pitied.
ABBA EBANIt is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.
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