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 Quote
“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.”
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