I’ve benefited from the best of both societies and both cultures, East and West.
ABDULLAH III personally believe that any country that has a nuclear program should conform to international regulations and should have international regulatory bodies that check to make sure that any nuclear program moves in the right direction.
More Abdullah II Quotes
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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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There are going to be a lot of questions, not just in my country, but across the Middle East.
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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 everybody is happy, then something is wrong with the democratic process.
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I don’t think the Middle East could afford another war.
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Jerusalem is a time bomb that I fear is just waiting to go off.
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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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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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Whenever you have a crisis, you’re always going to have the extremists taking advantage of the situation.
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I hope that none of the countries in the Middle East are planning anything but the peaceful utilization of nuclear energy.
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We 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.
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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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You’re always going to have terrorism.
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Our response has been, “Well, let’s then make an effort to get the Israelis and the Palestinians to sit around the table.” That hasn’t happened. So we only have ourselves to blame for this crisis.
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My view is when you use violence on your people, that never ends well.
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