I’m just very wary that once you start military operations in any country, it’s very difficult to predict what the outcome is.
ABDULLAH IIWhen 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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Many will view the compromises that will be made during your negotiations as painful concessions. But why not view them as peace offerings,
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If you believe that the killing of innocent people is right, then you are not part of my future.
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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.
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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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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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We want to be, I think, an example for the rest of the Arab world, because there are a lot of people who say that the only democracy you can have in the Middle East is the Muslim Brotherhood.
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We have to always hope in humanity that people will make the right choices.
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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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The Middle East has the highest unemployment percentage of any region in the world we have the largest youth cohort of history coming into the market place t
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I’ve benefited from the best of both societies and both cultures, East and West.
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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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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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And it’s about time that officials take their responsibility and are responsible in front of the people. Because today, if you’re appointed by the king, they don’t feel that they’re responsible for the people.
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Jerusalem is a time bomb that I fear is just waiting to go off.
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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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