Addressing the UN Security Council on June 6, 1967, Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban, one of the 20th century’s great orators, articulates Israel’s yearning for peace even as it was forced into war.

Major funding provided by Abigail and Leslie Wexner and the Wexner Foundation

Produced by the Jewish Media Fund of the Charles H. Revson Foundation

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This speech is one of four included in the CD set Great Speeches of Abba Eban, with introductions by Walter Cronkite:

• The War of Independence (1948)
• Admission to the United Nations (1949)
• The Sinai Campaign (1956) 
• The Six-Day War (1967)

To order, call 1-800-314-8822 or click here to order the CD set provided by the distributor, New Video.