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.

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

Lest Arab governments be tempted out of sheer routine to rush into impulsive rejection, let me suggest that tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss.

You can't achieve anything without getting in someone's way. You can't be detached and effective.

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

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.

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.