Abba Eban Quotes

I don't just whisper it, I say it and I say it: 'The United Nations is an anti-Semitic organization, an anti-Israel organization.'

It is crystal clear to me that if Arabs put down a draft resolution blaming Israel for the recent earthquake in Iran it would probably have a majority, the U.S. would veto it and Britain and France would abstain.

The Secretary General of the United Nations is more of a secretary than a general.

You don’t go for a vote in the Security Council unless you know that you have the votes to win.

There are big issues, like the reform of the Security Council. These kinds of questions are something the President of the General Assembly must keep his eye on.

The United Nations has become a place where many countries seek to achieve a lynching of the United States by resolution.

The United Nations Security Council is there to protect the interest of the Americans and the British.

Those who single out Israel for unique criticism not directed at countries with far worse human rights records are themselves guilty of international bigotry.

While most nations seemed to agree that something had to be done, every nation seemed to have a reason why some other nation should do it. So we sat, waiting for a promise to be kept, reduced to the role of accountants keeping track of how many were being killed.

It is the case that the Russians are misusing the veto in the United Nations, but you must recall that it was we who insisted upon the veto. Without the veto we could not gotten it through Congress.

The UN doesn’t take any moral stands unless its against Israel.

You should never make alliances with a decadent nation like France and a semi-barbarous nation like Russia

The U.S. has the power to block all anti-Israel moves in the Security Council, not just some of them, and to do so without agreeing to unfair, damaging compromises.

We have no stronger ally anywhere in the world than Israel.

Of course what is talked about in the U.N. General Assembly is very important. Officials, the leaders of nations, appear there to speak of the most important topics - what they perceive to be the most important topics.

Everyone should unconditionally accept that Israel is an indispensable element of the Middle Eastern mosaic.

Since the end of the Cold War, hegemonism has become increasingly unpopular.

Does anyone believe that Kofi Annan scares Bashar Assad?

I'm rooting for Saudi Arabia getting a seat on the U.N. Human Rights Council.

[President Obama's policies regarding Israel] looks like modern anti-Semitism disguised as Western Liberalism.

Non-Muslims with some justice now regard the Muslims as little better than animals.

Our use of the United Nations as an instrument for opposing Soviet expansion. prior to the conclusion of peace, has strained that institution severely. It has an increasing tendency to alarm smaller nations and to paralyze, rather than stimulate, their will to play an active part in the organization

I am afraid that the Jews of insanity who run this land will destroy us

Historians in the future will surely wonder what went so wrong when the United States, for the first time ever, focused its foreign policy on the Islamic world.

Where is the evidence that Washington's world view sways the multitude of nations? To enlist support for its wars in Korea, Vietnam and in the Gulf, the United States had to resort to a lot of bribery and threats. At the United Nations, the US has, with noteworthy regularity, been on the minority side in voting on resolutions.