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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. "

Abba Eban

Rejection

Tragedy

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History

Nations

" 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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" His ignorance is encyclopedic. "

Abba Eban

Ignorance

His

" 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. "

" 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. "