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When brothers quarrel, enter the common enemy
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MOSHE KOHN
Jerusalem Post
12-15-1995
The friendship of nations, built on common interests, cannot survive the mutability of those interests.
Agnes Repplier, Under Dispute, 1924
ISRAEL would consider a defense treaty with the US, depending "on how it is done, its conditions and its timing," Prime Minister and Defense Minister Shimon Peres said last week.
Peres didn't know whether the US was interested in such a pact. However, he said, there was "no reason to collect negative answers" before we had decided that the manner was right for us and that the conditions and the time were propitious ...
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