Wikileaks didn’t help confidence with American administrations because of conversations made public so easily.
ABDULLAH IIEarth’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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I think the success of democracy is not really police security; it’s the presence of a broad middle class.
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The incentive that you give to your youth is going to be the make-or-break future of the country.
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I look at Jerusalem as being a beacon for the three monotheistic religions.
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We want to be, I think, an example for the rest of the Arab world, because there are a lot of people who say that the only democracy you can have in the Middle East is the Muslim Brotherhood.
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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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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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Each country its cost analysis is going to be different. So what we are you seeing in Syria, for example, is different than what’s going on in Jordan. The maps are being rewritten.
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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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I hope that none of the countries in the Middle East are planning anything but the peaceful utilization of nuclear energy.
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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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You’re always going to have extremists in every religion.
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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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Is Israel going to continue to be “Fortress Israel”? Or, as we all hope, become accepted into the neighborhood, which I believe is the only way we can move forward in harmony.
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Peace with Israel is a strategic imperative for Jordan.
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