A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement.
ABBA EBANA statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement.
ABBA EBANHuman beings act intelligently only after they have exhausted the alternatives
ABBA EBANHistory teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
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.
ABBA EBANIsrael is not an aviary.
ABBA EBANConsensus is what many people say in chorus but do not believe as individuals.
ABBA EBANIt is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.
ABBA EBANHis ignorance is encyclopedic.
ABBA EBANA nation writes its history in the image of its ideal.
ABBA EBANI 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.
ABBA EBANTragedy is the difference between what is and what could have been.
ABBA EBANA consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually.
ABBA EBANSalvation, the prophets tell us, is preconditioned by repentance. The redeeming act of God waits upon man’s initiative.
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 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 EBANTragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss.
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