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Abba Eban on the UN

If Algeria introduced a [UN] resolution declaring that the earth was flat and that Israel had flattened it, it would pass by a vote of 164 to 13 with 26 abstentions.

Abba Eban


Source: Silvan Shalom, “A fence built for peace,” The Guardian, (February 2, 2004).