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.
ABDULLAH IIWhen 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.
ABDULLAH IIWe want to be, I think, an example for the rest of the Arab world, because there are a lot of people who say that the only democracy you can have in the Middle East is the Muslim Brotherhood.
ABDULLAH IIThe global system they hope to create is one of new walls and new isolation, and radically smaller horizons. It is an anti-democratic, anti-economic-growth, and anti-progress agenda.
ABDULLAH III look at Jerusalem as being a beacon for the three monotheistic religions.
ABDULLAH III think the debate in our society now is that people have to agree on zero-tolerance to terrorism.
ABDULLAH III like to look at the glass half full.
ABDULLAH IIEach 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.
ABDULLAH III’ve benefited from the best of both societies and both cultures, East and West.
ABDULLAH III’m easily entertained.
ABDULLAH IIHistoric changes and challenges. Breakthroughs in human knowledge and opportunity. And yet, for vast numbers across the globe, the daily realities have not altered.
ABDULLAH IIIt is always dangerous to underestimate anybody.
ABDULLAH IIWhen 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 IIThe Arab Spring I think we will look back whether it’s two years, five years, ten or fifteen. And say it’s a good thing.
ABDULLAH IIIs 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.
ABDULLAH IIIf you believe that the killing of innocent people is right, then you are not part of my future.
ABDULLAH IIAll this needs to stop. And we pledge that Jordan will do its utmost to help achieve it.
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