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Mr. President, prime ministers, let us have ambitions: ambitions to move beyond the violence and occupation, to the day when two states, Palestine and Israel, can live together side by side in peace and security.

Abdullah II

I believe strongly in the rights of women… my mother is a woman, my sister is a woman, my daughter is a woman, my wife is a woman.
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Believe Daughter Mother Right Sister Wife Woman
We have no right to dictate, through irresponsible action or narrow-mindedness, the future of our children, and our children’s children. There has been enough destruction, enough death, enough waste.
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Action Children Dictate Future Mindedness Narrow Right Waste
When we try to push the envelope, there are certain sectors of society that say this is a Zionist plot to sort of destabilize our country, or this is an American agenda.
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Country Destabilize Envelope Plot Sector Trying Zionist
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.
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Analysis Country Different Example
All this needs to stop. And we pledge that Jordan will do its utmost to help achieve it.
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Achieve Jordan Need Pledge Stop
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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Asking Immense Israel Last Man Peace Pressure Standing
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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Create Democratic Global Hope Horizon Isolation New Radically Smaller System Wall
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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Believe Continue Hope Israel Moving Neighborhood
Together, we can create a world in which peace is real; in which every human being can thrive; in which all share the promise of our century. I believe we can succeed.
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Believe Peace Promise Real Share Together World
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
I look at Jerusalem as being a beacon for the three monotheistic religions.
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Beacon Jerusalem Look Monotheistic Religion Three
The monarchy that I hand over to my son is not going to be the same one that I have inherited. … There is a tendency by a lot of officials to hide behind the king.
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Hard Kings Monarchy Official Responsibility Son Tendency Work
I’m easily entertained.
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Easily Entertained Fun One Liner
I don’t think the Middle East could afford another war.
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Afford Middle East Thinking War
That frustration does translate into the political sphere when people are hungry and without jobs.
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Mr. President, prime ministers, let us have ambitions: ambitions to move beyond the violence and occupation, to the day when two states, Palestine and Israel, can live together side by side in peace and security.

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Mr. President, prime ministers, let us have ambitions: ambitions to move beyond the violence and occupation, to the day when two states, Palestine and Israel, can live together side by side in peace and security.

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