Swobodin v Brně

Abba Eban, one of Israel’s founding fathers (…) described the exchange he had with the Soviet ambassador to Israel just after the Six-Day War. The ambassador said that because of the serious policy differences between them, the USSR had decided to break ties with Israel. Eban replied that, on the contrary, those differences should prompt them to increase their diplomatic ties with more in-depth discussions and exchanges of memoranda to work out the problems. The Soviet ambassador answered that “what Your Excellency says is logical, but I have not come here to be logical. I have come here to break ties with Israel.“.
 
Source: http://elitzur.blogspot.com/2002_11_17_elitzur_archive.html#84666668

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