\"At an early stage [Moshe] Dayan and I were united in our willingness to regard disengagement as a national objective of sufficient value to justify the sacrifice of Kuneitra… [Our unity] made it easier to overcome… the nonsensical theory, of which we heard much in some religious quarters, that giving up Kuneitra would lead us down a slope, at the bottom of which we would be abandoning the Western Wall. ‘If I forget thee, O Kuneitra, may my right hand forget its cunning’ was my ironic response to the zealots who argued this way.\"

- from ABBA EBAN, AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY (1977), pages 573-4, in which then-Foreign Minister Eban discusses the disengagement negotiations with Syria in the spring of 1974.