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 IIEarth’s dispossessed are vulnerable targets for extremists: those who teach that global justice is meaningless; that satisfaction can come only in violence, division, and intellectual isolation.
More Abdullah II Quotes
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We have to always hope in humanity that people will make the right choices.
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My view is when you use violence on your people, that never ends well.
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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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You’re always going to have extremists in every religion.
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You’re always going to have terrorism.
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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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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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The incentive that you give to your youth is going to be the make-or-break future of the country.
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I’m not the type of person that is forced.
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I’m easily entertained.
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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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What keeps me up at night is poverty and unemployment.
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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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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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Don’t take ‘no’ for an answer.
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