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.
ABDULLAH IIRemember you don’t do anything in isolation.
More Abdullah II Quotes
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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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There are going to be a lot of questions, not just in my country, but across the Middle East.
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Historic changes and challenges. Breakthroughs in human knowledge and opportunity. And yet, for vast numbers across the globe, the daily realities have not altered.
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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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I’m just very wary that once you start military operations in any country, it’s very difficult to predict what the outcome is.
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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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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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There are so many different sub-societies inside of Syria.
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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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For me, I am left leaning when it comes to health and education, on the right when it comes to defense. So I don’t know where I come on the political spectrum. And I think this the challenge that a lot of Jordanians have to deal with.
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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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Remember you don’t do anything in isolation.
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You’re always going to have extremists in every religion.
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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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