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.
ABDULLAH III 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.
More Abdullah II Quotes
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If you have a government that is elected, they need to do the hard work — because if they don’t, they won’t be around the next time the ballot box is open.
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We have to always hope in humanity that people will make the right choices.
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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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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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Extremists, who thrive on conflict; who do not tolerate diversity; who seek power through division and destruction.
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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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And 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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There is resistance to change. There’s a resistance to ideas.
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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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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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I’ve benefited from the best of both societies and both cultures, East and West.
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All this needs to stop. And we pledge that Jordan will do its utmost to help achieve it.
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I hope that none of the countries in the Middle East are planning anything but the peaceful utilization of nuclear energy.
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Jerusalem is a time bomb that I fear is just waiting to go off.
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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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