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 IIExtremists, who thrive on conflict; who do not tolerate diversity; who seek power through division and destruction.
More Abdullah II Quotes
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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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When there’s a status quo, usually what shakes everybody up is some sort of military confrontation, at which point we all come running and screaming to pick up the pieces.
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Wikileaks didn’t help confidence with American administrations because of conversations made public so easily.
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Ones that will provide in return the priceless gifts of hope, security and freedom for our children and our children’s?
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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 incentive that you give to your youth is going to be the make-or-break future of the country.
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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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What keeps me up at night is poverty and unemployment.
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Whenever you have a crisis, you’re always going to have the extremists taking advantage of the situation.
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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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Remember you don’t do anything in isolation.
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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 easily entertained.
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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 is resistance to change. There’s a resistance to ideas.
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