If you look at military and intelligence positions from the 1950s, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has always been against American national interests.
ABDULLAH IIMy view is when you use violence on your people, that never ends well.
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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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The Middle East has the highest unemployment percentage of any region in the world we have the largest youth cohort of history coming into the market place t
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I don’t think the Middle East could afford another war.
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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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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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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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Chemical weapons are something that scares everybody.
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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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All this needs to stop. And we pledge that Jordan will do its utmost to help achieve it.
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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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Each 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.
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I believe strongly in the rights of women… my mother is a woman, my sister is a woman, my daughter is a woman, my wife is a woman.
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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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If you believe that the killing of innocent people is right, then you are not part of my future.
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