Our response has been, “Well, let’s then make an effort to get the Israelis and the Palestinians to sit around the table.” That hasn’t happened. So we only have ourselves to blame for this crisis.
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More Abdullah II Quotes
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You’re always going to have terrorism.
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Each country its cost analysis is going to be different. So what we are you seeing in Syria, for example, is different than what’s going on in Jordan. The maps are being rewritten.
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The Arab World is writing a new future; the pen is in our own hands.
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The incentive that you give to your youth is going to be the make-or-break future of the country.
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The most precious gift that you can present to your peoples over the coming weeks is renewed hope born out of tangible progress on the ground.
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If you believe that the killing of innocent people is right, then you are not part of my future.
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I’m easily entertained.
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Don’t take ‘no’ for an answer.
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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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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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I’ve benefited from the best of both societies and both cultures, East and West.
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I believe strongly in the rights of women… my mother is a woman, my sister is a woman, my daughter is a woman, my wife is a woman.
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The security and the future of Jordan is hand-in-hand with the future of the Palestinians and the Israelis.
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When we try to push the envelope, there are certain sectors of society that say this is a Zionist plot to sort of destabilize our country, or this is an American agenda.
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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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