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.
ABDULLAH IIToday 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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All this needs to stop. And we pledge that Jordan will do its utmost to help achieve it.
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Remember you don’t do anything in isolation.
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We have to always hope in humanity that people will make the right choices.
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Don’t take ‘no’ for an answer.
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You’re always going to have terrorism.
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I’ve benefited from the best of both societies and both cultures, East and West.
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The stronger the middle class of a people is, the less you have to worry about one group coming in and exploiting the democratic process for its own ends.
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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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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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The Arab World is writing a new future; the pen is in our own hands.
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And it’s about time that officials take their responsibility and are responsible in front of the people. Because today, if you’re appointed by the king, they don’t feel that they’re responsible for the people.
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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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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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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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Blowing up buses will not induce the Israelis to move forward, and neither will the killing of Palestinians or the demolition of their homes and their future.
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