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.
ABDULLAH IIIf 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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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 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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We have no right to dictate, through irresponsible action or narrow-mindedness, the future of our children, and our children’s children. There has been enough destruction, enough death, enough waste.
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Extremists, who thrive on conflict; who do not tolerate diversity; who seek power through division and destruction.
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I’ve benefited from the best of both societies and both cultures, East and West.
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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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Chemical weapons are something that scares everybody.
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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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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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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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What keeps me up at night is poverty and unemployment.
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Many will view the compromises that will be made during your negotiations as painful concessions. But why not view them as peace offerings,
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I like to look at the glass half full.
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For me, I am left leaning when it comes to health and education, on the right when it comes to defense. So I don’t know where I come on the political spectrum. And I think this the challenge that a lot of Jordanians have to deal with.
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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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