" Specifically, the elimination of the strategic depth it has enjoyed since 1967 is inexorably returning Israel to its earlier, indefensible boundaries -- which Abba Eban once pointedly called the "Auschwitz line.

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The scion of a patrician family his uncle was Abba Eban, a longtime foreign minister, and his father, Chaim, was Israel's president Mr Herzog says Labour must recover the social democratic values of the party's founding fathers.

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Nevertheless, he bellied up to the microphone by himself and treated us to a brief but well-rounded survey of his expansive catalog: a selection from the Eban and Charley soundtrack, one song apiece from the albums Get Lost and Distortion, and a number originally composed for the audio book of Lemony Snicket's The Hostile Hospital.

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