Israeli - Diplomat | February 2, 1915 - November 17, 2002
His ignorance is encyclopedic.
Abba Eban
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A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually.
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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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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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Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives.
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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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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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Time and again these governments have rejected proposals today - and longed for them tomorrow.
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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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It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.
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Consensus is what many people say in chorus but do not believe as individuals.
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