Jerusalem is a time bomb that I fear is just waiting to go off.
ABDULLAH IIWhat keeps me up at night is poverty and unemployment.
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Chemical weapons are something that scares everybody.
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If you look at military and intelligence positions from the 1950s, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has always been against American national interests.
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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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There is resistance to change. There’s a resistance to ideas.
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In our view, successful reform is not an event. It is a sustainable process that will build on its own successes – a virtuous cycle of change.
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I look at Jerusalem as being a beacon for the three monotheistic religions.
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Earth’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.
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That frustration does translate into the political sphere when people are hungry and without jobs.
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I think the success of democracy is not really police security; it’s the presence of a broad middle class.
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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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Remember you don’t do anything in isolation.
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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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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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All this needs to stop. And we pledge that Jordan will do its utmost to help achieve it.
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