Peace with Israel is a strategic imperative for Jordan.
ABDULLAH IIOver 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’ve benefited from the best of both societies and both cultures, East and West.
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I believe nuclear energy in Jordan will be done in such a way where it is a public-private partnership so everyone can see exactly what’s going on.
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If everybody is happy, then something is wrong with the democratic process.
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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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Jerusalem is a time bomb that I fear is just waiting to go off.
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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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At the end of the day we want to bring stability and hope to Iraq. That’s the only way to defeat terrorism.
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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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The stronger the middle class of a people is, the less you have to worry about one group coming in and exploiting the democratic process for its own ends.
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The global system they hope to create is one of new walls and new isolation, and radically smaller horizons. It is an anti-democratic, anti-economic-growth, and anti-progress agenda.
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Political development should start at the grassroots.
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Blowing up buses will not induce the Israelis to move forward, and neither will the killing of Palestinians or the demolition of their homes and their future.
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It is always dangerous to underestimate anybody.
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There are so many different sub-societies inside of Syria.
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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.
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