Tragedy Is Not What Men Suffer But

A Statesman Who Keeps His Ear Permanently Glued To The Ground Will Have Neither Elegance Of Posture Nor Flexibility Of Movement.

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.

A Nation Writes Its History In The Image Of Its Ideal.

It Is Our Experience That Political Leaders Do Not Always Mean The Opposite Of What They Say.

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.