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Abba Eban [1915-2002] Israeli

Rank: 106
Diplomat

Abba Eban was an Israeli diplomat and politician, and a scholar of the Arabic and Hebrew languages.
In his career he was Israeli Foreign Affairs Minister, Education Minister, Deputy Prime Minister, and ambassador to the United States and to the United Nations.

History, Peace, Politics, War

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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.		101
A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually.		102
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.		103
A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement.		104
His ignorance is encyclopedic.		105
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.	History	106
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.	History, Peace, War	107
Better to be disliked than pitied.		108
You can't achieve anything without getting in someone's way.		109
It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.	Politics	110
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.		111
Time and again these governments have rejected proposals today - and longed for them tomorrow.		112
Consensus is what many people say in chorus but do not believe as individuals.		113
The Jews are the living embodiment of the minority, the constant reminder of what duties societies owe their minorities, whoever they might be.		114
Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives.		115

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