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.
ABDULLAH IIWe have to always hope in humanity that people will make the right choices.
More Abdullah II Quotes
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Peace with Israel is a strategic imperative for Jordan.
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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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Political development should start at the grassroots.
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The brave pilot gave his life defending his faith, country and nation and joined other Jordanian martyrs who gave their lives for Jordan.
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Jerusalem is a time bomb that I fear is just waiting to go off.
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What keeps me up at night is poverty and unemployment.
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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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Remember you don’t do anything in isolation.
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We’re never going to be able to get rid of terrorism, because there is always going to be evil in the world.
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Prime Minister Sharon, Prime Minister Abbas, I urge you today to end the designs of those who seek destruction, annihilation and occupation, and I urge you to have the will and the courage to begin to realize our dreams of peace, prosperity and coexistence.
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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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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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That frustration does translate into the political sphere when people are hungry and without jobs.
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No matter what’s happening in the Middle East – the Arab Spring, et cetera, the economic challenges, high rates of unemployment – the emotional, critical issue is always the Israeli-Palestinian one.
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You’re always going to have terrorism.
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