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The incentive that you give to your youth is going to be the make-or-break future of the country.

Abdullah II

Peace with Israel is a strategic imperative for Jordan.
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Imperative Jordan Peace Strategic
Mr. President, prime ministers, let us have ambitions: ambitions to move beyond the violence and occupation, to the day when two states, Palestine and Israel, can live together side by side in peace and security.
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Ambition Israel Moving Occupation President Prime Minister State Two Violence
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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Accepted Believe Continue Fortress Neighbourhood Only Way
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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Asking Immense Israel Last Man Peace Pressure Standing
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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Challenge Economic Emotional Issue Rate Spring Unemployment
Whenever you have a crisis, you’re always going to have the extremists taking advantage of the situation.
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Advantage Always Crisis Situation
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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Country Energy None Nuclear Peaceful
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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Class Coming Democratic Exploiting Middle People Process Stronger
The Arab World is writing a new future; the pen is in our own hands.
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Future Hand New Own World Writing
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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Birthday Creative Issue Mind People Urgent
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.
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Global Intellectual Justice Meaningless Satisfaction Target
It’s a tremendous responsibility to be direct descendants of the prophet Muhammad. This family has had the burden of leadership on its shoulders for 1,400 years. I’m not going to drop the ball on my shift.
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Ball Burden Descendant Leadership Muhammad Prophet Responsibility Year
There is resistance to change. There’s a resistance to ideas.
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Change Idea Resistance
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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Brotherhood Democracy Example People Thinking World
Political development should start at the grassroots.
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Development Grassroot Political Start
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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Blowing Demolition Home Moving Need Palestinian

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