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.

Zionism is nothing more, but also nothing less, than the Jewish People's sense of origin and destination in the Land linked eternally with its name. It is also the instrument whereby the Jewish Nation seeks an authentic fulfillment of itself.

A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement.

Consensus is what many people say in chorus but do not believe as individuals.

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.

Playing the game I have learned the meaning of humility. It has given me an understanding of futility of the human effort.

A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually.