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If you believe that the killing of innocent people is right, then you are not part of my future.

Abdullah II

And it’s about time that officials take their responsibility and are responsible in front of the people. Because today, if you’re appointed by the king, they don’t feel that they’re responsible for the people.
ABDULLAH II

Appointed Front Official People Responsibility Responsible Time Today
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.
ABDULLAH II

Class Coming Democratic Exploiting Middle People Process Stronger
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.
ABDULLAH II

Around Ballot Elected Government Hard Need Next Time Work
When you get billions in aid and your weapons resupplied and your ammunition stock resupplied, you don’t learn the lesson that war is bad and nobody wins.
ABDULLAH II

Lessons War Winning
There is a tendency by a lot of officials to hide behind the king. And it’s about time that officials take their responsibility and are responsible in front of the people.
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King Official People Responsibility Tendency
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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Born Coming Gift Hope People Precious Present Progress Renewed Tangible Week
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
It’s a burden, but it needs to be done, and you have to have the courage and wisdom to see it through.
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Burden Courage Done Need See Wisdom
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?
ABDULLAH II

Birthday Creative Issue Mind People Urgent
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.
ABDULLAH II

Analysis Country Different Example
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.
ABDULLAH II

Global Intellectual Justice Meaningless Satisfaction Target
At the end of the day we want to bring stability and hope to Iraq. That’s the only way to defeat terrorism.
ABDULLAH II

Defeat Hope Iraq Stability Terrorism
And 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.
ABDULLAH II

Arab Challenge East Economic Happening High Middle Rate Spring Unemployment
I have the responsibility of over four million people, and I am in a position to do good, to be able to bring about a new life for my people, and I will continue to move in that direction.
ABDULLAH II

Good Life Million Moving New People Position Responsibility
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.
ABDULLAH II

Brotherhood Democracy Example People Thinking World
That frustration does translate into the political sphere when people are hungry and without jobs.
ABDULLAH II

Frustration Hungry Job Political Sphere Translate

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