Tragedy is the difference between what is and what could have been.
ABBA EBANNobody 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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Salvation, the prophets tell us, is preconditioned by repentance. The redeeming act of God waits upon man’s initiative.
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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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It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.
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Tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss.
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Palestinians never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.
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History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
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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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Human beings act intelligently only after they have exhausted the alternatives
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Better to be disliked than pitied.
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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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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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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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His ignorance is encyclopedic.
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Consensus is what many people say in chorus but do not believe as individuals.
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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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