Abba Eban citations

Abba Eban , ou Aubrey Solomon Meir, né le 2 février 1915 au Cap, Afrique du Sud, et mort le 17 novembre 2002 à Tel Aviv-Jaffa, était un diplomate et homme politique israélien. Il fut ministre travailliste des Affaires étrangères de 1966 à 1974. Wikipedia  

✵ 2. février 1915 – 17. novembre 2002  •  Autres noms Abba Solomon Eban
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Abba Eban: Citations en anglais

“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.”

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Comment about the United Nations General Assembly, as quoted in The Guardian (3 February 2004) http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1137594,00.html.

“History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.”

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Speech in London (16 December 1970); as quoted in The Times [London] (17 December 1970) and in Great Jewish Quotations (1996) by Alfred J. Kolatch, p. 115.

“The Arabs never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.”

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As quoted in The Jerusalem Post (18 November 2002) http://www.factsofisrael.com/blog/archives/000491.html; often misquoted as "Palestinians never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity." The quote is attributed to Abba Eban after the Geneva Peace Conference http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Peace/geneva.html with Arab countries (21 December 1973).

“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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Abba Eban wrote "Israel's Dilemmas: An Opportunity Squandered" in Stephen J. Roth, ed. "The Impact of the Six-Day War: A Twenty-Year Assessment".

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