I think the debate in our society now is that people have to agree on zero-tolerance to terrorism.
ABDULLAH IIPrime Minister Sharon, Prime Minister Abbas, I urge you today to end the designs of those who seek destruction, annihilation and occupation, and I urge you to have the will and the courage to begin to realize our dreams of peace, prosperity and coexistence.
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We’re never going to be able to get rid of terrorism, because there is always going to be evil in the world.
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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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I’m not the type of person that is forced.
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The security and the future of Jordan is hand-in-hand with the future of the Palestinians and the Israelis.
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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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Political development should start at the grassroots.
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You’re always going to have terrorism.
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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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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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The monarchy that I hand over to my son is not going to be the same one that I have inherited.
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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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We have to always hope in humanity that people will make the right choices.
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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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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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What keeps me up at night is poverty and unemployment.
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