Peace with Israel is a strategic imperative for Jordan.
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.
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I’m not the type of person that is forced.
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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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There are so many different sub-societies inside of Syria.
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That frustration does translate into the political sphere when people are hungry and without jobs.
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Don’t take ‘no’ for an answer.
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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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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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You’re always going to have terrorism.
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It is always dangerous to underestimate anybody.
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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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All this needs to stop. And we pledge that Jordan will do its utmost to help achieve it.
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Jerusalem is a time bomb that I fear is just waiting to go off.
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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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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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I don’t think the Middle East could afford another war.
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