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.

Tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss.

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.

Israel is not an aviary.

Tragedy is the difference between what is and what could have been.