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.
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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Chemical weapons are something that scares everybody.
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The Arab World is writing a new future; the pen is in our own hands.
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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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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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My view is when you use violence on your people, that never ends well.
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I’m not the type of person that is forced.
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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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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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All this needs to stop. And we pledge that Jordan will do its utmost to help achieve it.
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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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If everybody is happy, then something is wrong with the democratic process.
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I have the responsibility of over four million people, and I am in a position to do good, to be able to bring about a new life for my people, and I will continue to move in that direction.
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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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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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