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.
More Quotes by Abba Eban
Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives.
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.
It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.
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.
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.
His ignorance is encyclopedic.