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.
ABDULLAH IIWhen 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.
More Abdullah II Quotes
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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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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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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 are so many different sub-societies inside of Syria.
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I personally believe that any country that has a nuclear program should conform to international regulations and should have international regulatory bodies that check to make sure that any nuclear program moves in the right direction.
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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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The monarchy that I hand over to my son is not going to be the same one that I have inherited.
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I look at Jerusalem as being a beacon for the three monotheistic religions.
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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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Political development should start at the grassroots.
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We have to always hope in humanity that people will make the right choices.
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What keeps me up at night is poverty and unemployment.
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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 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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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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