Abba Eban
Abba Eban
Abba Ebanwas an Israeli diplomat and politician, and a scholar of the Arabic and Hebrew languages...
NationalityIsraeli
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth2 February 1915
CountryIsrael
israel world tasks
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.
israel
Israel is not an aviary.
israel united-states arabia
Nobody 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. Israel's legitimacy is not suspended in midair awaiting acknowledgement.... There is certainly no other state, big or small, young or old, that would consider mere recognition of its 'right to exist' a favor, or a negotiable concession.
israel algeria earth
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.
again proposals rejected time tomorrow
Time and again these governments have rejected proposals today, and longed for them tomorrow
advantages
When I was first here, we had the advantages of the underdog. Now we have the disadvantages of the overdog.
behave exhausted men quotes
Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives.
again proposals rejected time
Time and again these governments have rejected proposals today - and longed for them tomorrow.
achieve
You can't achieve anything without getting in someone's way
believe people belief
Consensus is what many people say in chorus but do not believe as individuals.
men missing rejection
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.
war doubt cairo
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.
men missing suffering
Tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss.
ears movement elegance
A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement.