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 IIThe security and the future of Jordan is hand-in-hand with the future of the Palestinians and the Israelis.
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We have to always hope in humanity that people will make the right choices.
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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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If you look at military and intelligence positions from the 1950s, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has always been against American national interests.
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I’ve benefited from the best of both societies and both cultures, East and West.
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Don’t take ‘no’ for an answer.
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The Arab World is writing a new future; the pen is in our own hands.
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If you have a government that is elected, they need to do the hard work – because if they don’t, they won’t be around the next time the ballot box is open.
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You’re always going to have extremists in every religion.
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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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If everybody is happy, then something is wrong with the democratic process.
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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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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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Wikileaks didn’t help confidence with American administrations because of conversations made public so easily.
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Earth’s dispossessed are vulnerable targets for extremists: those who teach that global justice is meaningless; that satisfaction can come only in violence, division, and intellectual isolation.
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The Arab Spring I think we will look back whether it’s two years, five years, ten or fifteen. And say it’s a good thing.
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