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.
ABDULLAH IIIt’s a burden, but it needs to be done, and you have to have the courage and wisdom to see it through.
More Abdullah II Quotes
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Peace with Israel is a strategic imperative for Jordan.
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I like to look at the glass half full.
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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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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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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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Over 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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In our view, successful reform is not an event. It is a sustainable process that will build on its own successes – a virtuous cycle of change.
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What keeps me up at night is poverty and unemployment.
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You’re always going to have terrorism.
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If you believe that the killing of innocent people is right, then you are not part of my future.
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I believe strongly in the rights of women… my mother is a woman, my sister is a woman, my daughter is a woman, my wife is a woman.
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We have to always hope in humanity that people will make the right choices.
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We have no right to dictate, through irresponsible action or narrow-mindedness, the future of our children, and our children’s children. There has been enough destruction, enough death, enough waste.
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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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