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Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives.
A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement.
Israel is not an aviary.
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]
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.
Human beings act intelligently only after they have exhausted the alternatives
Salvation, the prophets tell us, is preconditioned by repentance. The redeeming act of God waits upon man's initiative.
It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.
There is no difference whatever between anti-Semitism and the denial of Israel's statehood. Classical anti-Semitism denies the equal right of Jews as citizens within society. Anti-Zionism denies the equal rights of the Jewish people its lawful sovereignty within the community of nations. The common principle in the two cases is discrimination.
New York Times, 1975
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.
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.
If Algeria introduced a resolution that the earth was flat and that Israel had flattened it, it would pass by a vote of 164 to 13 with 26 abstentions.
Better to be disliked than pitied.
Time and again these governments have rejected proposals today - and longed for them tomorrow.
