It’s a burden, but it needs to be done, and you have to have the courage and wisdom to see it through.
ABDULLAH IIAnd 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.
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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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The Arab World is writing a new future; the pen is in our own hands.
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Chemical weapons are something that scares everybody.
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Wikileaks didn’t help confidence with American administrations because of conversations made public so easily.
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I think it’s almost impossible for any expert to predict for the rapid changes we see in the Middle East. They are rapid and they will continue for quite a while.
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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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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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All this needs to stop. And we pledge that Jordan will do its utmost to help achieve it.
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Blowing up buses will not induce the Israelis to move forward, and neither will the killing of Palestinians or the demolition of their homes and their future.
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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.
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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.
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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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I’m easily entertained.
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Through Hamas, Iran has been able to buy itself a seat on the table in talking about the Palestinian issue. And, as a result, through Hamas it does play a role in the issue of the Palestinians, as strange as that should sound.
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