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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

What keeps me up at night is poverty and unemployment.
ABDULLAH II

Keep Night Poverty Unemployment
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.
ABDULLAH II

Around Blame Effort Happened Palestinian Response Table
Jerusalem is a time bomb that I fear is just waiting to go off.
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Bombs Fear Jerusalem Time Waiting
When I talk to people in need, they tell me they want to hope; they are eager for opportunity; they are ready for better days. And I can tell you that every time their hopes are disappointed, all nations lose.
ABDULLAH II

Better Democracy Eager Hope Need Opportunity People Want
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
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 Box Elected Government Hard Need Work
There are going to be a lot of questions, not just in my country, but across the Middle East.
ABDULLAH II

Country East Forward Middle Moving Spring
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.
ABDULLAH II

Ball Burden Descendant Leadership Muhammad Prophet Responsibility Year
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 II

Back Good Humanity Look Spring Thinking Year
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
It is always dangerous to underestimate anybody.
ABDULLAH II

Always Anybody Dangerous Underestimate
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
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
Fifty-seven countries in the world, a third of the United Nations, do not recognize Israel. In a way, I think North Korea has better international relations than Israel.
ABDULLAH II

Country International Israel Recognize Thinking United Nation World
Political development should start at the grassroots.
ABDULLAH II

Development Grassroot Political Start
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

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