The Arab Spring I think we will look back whether it’s two years, five years, ten or fifteen. And say it’s a good thing.
ABDULLAH IIIf you look at military and intelligence positions from the 1950s, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has always been against American national interests.
More Abdullah II Quotes
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Remember you don’t do anything in isolation.
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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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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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I look at Jerusalem as being a beacon for the three monotheistic religions.
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That frustration does translate into the political sphere when people are hungry and without jobs.
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I don’t think the Middle East could afford another war.
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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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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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All this needs to stop. And we pledge that Jordan will do its utmost to help achieve it.
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I’m just very wary that once you start military operations in any country, it’s very difficult to predict what the outcome is.
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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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In our view, successful reform is not an event. It is a sustainable process that will build on its own successes – a virtuous cycle of change.
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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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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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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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