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The brave pilot gave his life defending his faith, country and nation and joined other Jordanian martyrs who gave their lives for Jordan.

Abdullah II

Over the past few years, the road to confrontation has shown its consequences: loss of innocent lives, destruction and fear. Most costly, however, was the loss of hope.
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Confrontation Consequences Costly Destruction Loss Past Road Year
Whenever you have a crisis, you’re always going to have the extremists taking advantage of the situation.
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Advantage Always Crisis Situation
What keeps me up at night is poverty and unemployment.
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Keep Night Poverty Unemployment
No matter what’s happening in the Middle East – the Arab Spring, et cetera, the economic challenges, high rates of unemployment – the emotional, critical issue is always the Israeli-Palestinian one.
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Challenge Economic Emotional Issue Rate Spring Unemployment
I think the debate in our society now is that people have to agree on zero-tolerance to terrorism.
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Agree Debate People Thinking Tolerance Zero
The global system they hope to create is one of new walls and new isolation, and radically smaller horizons. It is an anti-democratic, anti-economic-growth, and anti-progress agenda.
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Create Democratic Global Hope Horizon Isolation New Radically Smaller System Wall
The monarchy that I hand over to my son is not going to be the same one that I have inherited. … There is a tendency by a lot of officials to hide behind the king.
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Hard Kings Monarchy Official Responsibility Son Tendency Work
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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Around Blame Effort Happened Palestinian Response Table
Many will view the compromises that will be made during your negotiations as painful concessions. But why not view them as peace offerings,
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Build Children Compromise Negotiation Offering Peace Success View
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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Asking Immense Israel Last Man Peace Pressure Standing
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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Country Destabilize Envelope Plot Sector Trying Zionist
We’re never going to be able to get rid of terrorism, because there is always going to be evil in the world.
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Able Evil Rid Terrorism World
It’s a burden, but it needs to be done, and you have to have the courage and wisdom to see it through.
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Burden Courage Done Need See Wisdom
I think it’s almost impossible for any expert to predict for the rapid changes we see in the Middle East. They are rapid and they will continue for quite a while.
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Expert Impossible Predict Rapid Thinking
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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Better Democracy Eager Hope Need Opportunity People Want
If everybody is happy, then something is wrong with the democratic process.
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Democratic Happy Process Something Wrong

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