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.
ABDULLAH IIThere are going to be a lot of questions, not just in my country, but across the Middle East.
More Abdullah II Quotes
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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.
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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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The Arab World is writing a new future; the pen is in our own hands.
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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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There is resistance to change. There’s a resistance to ideas.
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There are going to be a lot of questions, not just in my country, but across the Middle East.
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Chemical weapons are something that scares everybody.
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Extremists, who thrive on conflict; who do not tolerate diversity; who seek power through division and destruction.
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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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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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There are so many different sub-societies inside of Syria.
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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.
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Prime Minister Sharon, Prime Minister Abbas, I urge you today to end the designs of those who seek destruction, annihilation and occupation, and I urge you to have the will and the courage to begin to realize our dreams of peace, prosperity and coexistence.
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At the end of the day we want to bring stability and hope to Iraq. That’s the only way to defeat terrorism.
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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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