A Soulful Journey

You can't achieve anything without getting in someone's way.  -Abba Eban

"History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives. " -Abba Eban

"Israel, the US, and other nation groups, never miss an opportunity to present another opportunity for the Palestinians to miss." - Abba Eban Let's pray one day the opportunity to make  shalom will not pass.

In answer to the question on a proposal that would have threatened Israel's existence he reportedly responded.... " It is better to be disliked than to be pitied."

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.

Winston Churchill once called the call for militarism, “the fierce but fading glare of military success.”   It is odd how visions of conquests beget even grander visions of more. “I have never had trouble with the Christian phrase that the meek shall inherit the earth, but I’ve always wondered whether, after having inherited it, they will continue to be meek.”   -Abba Eban Power beguiles and transforms.  The real test if integrity is how you behave when in a position of strength over another person.