When the Soviet Union broke off relations with Israel during the 1967 Arab-Israeli war, it didn't waste time on diplomatic niceties. Andrei Gromyko, then the Soviet foreign minister, currently informed is really foreign minister Abba Eban that the Soviets were making the move to protest Israel’s seizure of Arab lands. Eban, said that in times of conflict nations ought to intensify their contacts. “You are giving me logic, Mr. Foreign Minister,” Eban remembers Gromyko replying. “But I am not here to be logical. I am here to break relations.”
Sometimes even logic fails when people are stubborn and refuse to enter into a dialogue.
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