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 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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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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I’m just very wary that once you start military operations in any country, it’s very difficult to predict what the outcome is.
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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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I’m not the type of person that is forced.
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The Arab World is writing a new future; the pen is in our own hands.
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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?
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If everybody is happy, then something is wrong with the democratic process.
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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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There are going to be a lot of questions, not just in my country, but across the Middle East.
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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.
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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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If 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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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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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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The global system they hope to create is one of new walls and new isolation, and radically smaller horizons. It is an anti-democratic, anti-economic-growth, and anti-progress agenda.
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