Peace with Israel is a strategic imperative for Jordan.
ABDULLAH IIThe incentive that you give to your youth is going to be the make-or-break future of the country.
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When I talk to people in need, they tell me they want to hope; they are eager for opportunity; they are ready for better days. And I can tell you that every time their hopes are disappointed, all nations lose.
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At the end of the day we want to bring stability and hope to Iraq. That’s the only way to defeat terrorism.
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When you get billions in aid and your weapons resupplied and your ammunition stock resupplied, you don’t learn the lesson that war is bad and nobody wins.
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Is Israel going to continue to be ‘Fortress Israel’? Or, as we all hope, become accepted into the neighborhood, which I believe is the only way we can move forward in harmony.
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In our view, successful reform is not an event. It is a sustainable process that will build on its own successes – a virtuous cycle of change.
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We have peace with Israel. We’re actually the last man standing. So there is going to be immense pressure and people asking,
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Is Israel going to continue to be “Fortress Israel”? Or, as we all hope, become accepted into the neighborhood, which I believe is the only way we can move forward in harmony.
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Don’t take ‘no’ for an answer.
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That frustration does translate into the political sphere when people are hungry and without jobs.
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There are going to be a lot of questions, not just in my country, but across the Middle East.
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The stronger the middle class of a people is, the less you have to worry about one group coming in and exploiting the democratic process for its own ends.
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You’re always going to have terrorism.
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Jerusalem is a time bomb that I fear is just waiting to go off.
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It is always dangerous to underestimate anybody.
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Prime Minister Sharon, Prime Minister Abbas, I urge you today to end the designs of those who seek destruction, annihilation and occupation, and I urge you to have the will and the courage to begin to realize our dreams of peace, prosperity and coexistence.
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