I have the responsibility of over four million people, and I am in a position to do good, to be able to bring about a new life for my people, and I will continue to move in that direction.
ABDULLAH IIWe 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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Political development should start at the grassroots.
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Whenever you have a crisis, you’re always going to have the extremists taking advantage of the situation.
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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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Fifty-seven countries in the world, a third of the United Nations, do not recognize Israel. In a way, I think North Korea has better international relations than Israel.
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There is a tendency by a lot of officials to hide behind the king. And it’s about time that officials take their responsibility and are responsible in front of the people.
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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 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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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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Mr. President, prime ministers, let us have ambitions: ambitions to move beyond the violence and occupation, to the day when two states, Palestine and Israel, can live together side by side in peace and security.
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When there’s a status quo, usually what shakes everybody up is some sort of military confrontation, at which point we all come running and screaming to pick up the pieces.
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Today more than ever we need creative minds to address the issues of the age. And one of the most urgent is this: How can humanity know so much, achieve so much, and still fail so many people so badly?
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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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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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What keeps me up at night is poverty and unemployment.
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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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