Peace with Israel is a strategic imperative for Jordan.
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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That frustration does translate into the political sphere when people are hungry and without jobs.
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I think the debate in our society now is that people have to agree on zero-tolerance to terrorism.
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It is always dangerous to underestimate anybody.
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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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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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If you have a government that is elected, they need to do the hard work — because if they don’t, they won’t be around the next time the ballot box is open.
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Chemical weapons are something that scares everybody.
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When we try to push the envelope, there are certain sectors of society that say this is a Zionist plot to sort of destabilize our country, or this is an American agenda.
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Don’t take ‘no’ for an answer.
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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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The most precious gift that you can present to your peoples over the coming weeks is renewed hope born out of tangible progress on the ground.
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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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There are so many different sub-societies inside of Syria.
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Ones that will provide in return the priceless gifts of hope, security and freedom for our children and our children’s?
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There is resistance to change. There’s a resistance to ideas.
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