Word: eban
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...equivocated on the issue of continuing negotiations in Geneva, and this saved Labor. Even so, Labor's loss was its worst since the country was created. Yet the government quickly moved to continue talks in Geneva as though it had won a sizable victory. Said Foreign Minister Abba Eban: "This government's mandate to negotiate a disengagement has not been removed by the election. There is a peace mystique here much stronger than the election figures on the surface indicate...
...Compared to the debates at the Security Council in New York," declared Israel's Foreign Minister Abba Eban, "this was a relatively civilized exchange of views." The Egyptian delegates seemed no less enthusiastic than Eban. "We have made our way," said a government spokesman, "through a minefield of difficulties...
Outraged that the Egyptian attack was launched on Yom Kippur, the solemn Jewish Day of Atonement, Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban called it "blasphemous." The Grand Sheik Abdel Halim Mahmoud, Egypt's highest religious authority, proclaimed the war a jihad, a holy war. "We are fighting as the early Moslems fought against the infidels," he declared in Cairo's Al Azhar mosque. "All the dead in battle are sure of paradise." In Saudi Arabia, the Interior Ministry urged its citizens to "destroy the enemies of religion...
...Eban: Our neighbors must first of all change their attitude on the principle of negotiation and listen carefully to our views and anxieties on the boundary question and on the nature of the peace. Only when they negotiate will Israel's view of their intentions begin to change. It is negotiation that creates confidence; it is not confidence that creates negotiation...
...that they were invincible and that we were meek and weak. They pictured Egyptians as people who would never fight. The fighting spirit of the American colonies came about because you refused the serenity of living under the British Crown. Well, we don't like the serenity-Mr. Eban's word-of being occupied. The argument that this occupied territory serves as a protective buffer for Israel-that was the argument of Hitler. What we're asking for is very simple: that our territorial integrity and the rights of the Palestinians be respected. These two elements...