Abba Eban Citas

• La historia nos enseña que los hombres y las naciones se comportan sabiamente una vez que han agotado todas las demás alternativas.

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  Funny, Sarcastic, War

  Speech in London, 16 Dec. 1970, in The Times 17 Dec. 1970

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• Palestinians never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.

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  Opportunity, Missing, Palestinian

  Quoted in N.Y. Times, 18 Dec. 1988

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• Si Argelia presentara una resolución declarando que la Tierra es plana y que Israel la ha aplanado, sería aprobada por 164 votos a favor, 13 en contra y 26 abstenciones.

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  Israel, Algeria, Earth

  "A fence built for peace" by Abba Eban, www.theguardian.com. February 3, 2004.

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• Nadie hace ningún favor a Israel proclamando su "derecho a existir". El derecho de Israel a existir, como el de Estados Unidos, Arabia Saudí y otros 152 Estados, es axiomático y sin reservas. La legitimidad de Israel no está suspendida en el aire a la espera de ser reconocida.... Desde luego, no hay ningún otro Estado, grande o pequeño, joven o viejo, que considere el mero reconocimiento de su "derecho a existir" un favor o una concesión negociable.

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  Israel, United States, Arabia

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• Una de las principales tareas de cualquier diálogo con el mundo gentil es demostrar que la distinción entre antisemitismo y antisionismo no es tal.

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  Israel, Tasks, World

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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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  War, Unconditional Love, Thinking

  "The Impact of the Six-Day War: A Twenty-Year Assessment". Book by Stephen J. Roth, 1988.

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• Zionism is nothing more, but also nothing less, than the Jewish People's sense of origin and destination in the Land linked eternally with its name. It is also the instrument whereby the Jewish Nation seeks an authentic fulfillment of itself.

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  Land, Names, People

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• Tragedy is the difference between what is and what could have been.

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  Differences, Tragedy, Could Have Been

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• A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually.

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  Sarcastic, Believe, Mean

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• His ignorance is encyclopedic.

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  Sarcastic, Clever, Ignorance

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• Human beings act intelligently only after they have exhausted the alternatives

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  Alternatives, Exhausted, Humans

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• Better to be disliked than pitied.

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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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  Change, Achievement, Way

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• Israel is not an aviary.

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  Israel

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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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  Leadership, Mean, Opposites

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• Los judíos son la encarnación viva de la minoría, el recordatorio constante de los deberes que las sociedades deben a sus minorías, sean quienes sean.

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  Minorities, Embodiment, Might

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• A nation writes its history in the image of its ideal.

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  Writing, Justice, Diversity

  Abba Eban (1969). “My people: the story of the Jews”, George Weidenfeld & Nicholson

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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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  Men, Rejection, Missing

  Abba Solomon Eban (1968). “Forward to peace: text of the address in the twenty-third plenary session of the Gerneral Assembly of the United Nations, Monday, 8 October, 1968”

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• Science is not a sacred cow. Science is a horse. Don’t worship it. Feed it.
  [Addressing a group of prospective contributors to an Israeli scientific research program]

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  Horse, Groups, Research

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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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  Men, Waiting, Initiative

  Abba Eban (1969). “My people: the story of the Jews”, George Weidenfeld & Nicholson

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• Consensus is what many people say in chorus but do not believe as individuals.

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  Creer, Gente, Creencia

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• A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement.

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  Ears, Movement, Elegance

  Abba Solomon Eban (1999). “Diplomacy for the Next Century”, p.88, Yale University Press

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• Jugando he aprendido el significado de la humildad. Me ha hecho comprender la inutilidad del esfuerzo humano.

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  Humility, Golf, Futility Of Life

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• La idolatría alimenta la ambición del hombre de dominar a sus semejantes. La idolatría, por tanto, es la fuente de todos los males sociales y morales del mundo.

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  Ambition, Men, Evil

  Abba Eban (1969). “My people: the story of the Jews”, George Weidenfeld & Nicholson

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• Our intention to regard the closing of the Straits as a casus belli was communicated...to the foreign ministers of those states which had supported international navigation in the Straits in 1957 and thereafter. There can be no doubt that these warnings reached Cairo. One thing was now clear. If Nasser imposed a blockade, the explosion would ensue not from 'miscalculation', but from an open-eyed and conscious readiness for war.

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  War, Doubt, Cairo

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