What keeps me up at night is poverty and unemployment.
ABDULLAH IIAt 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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Whenever you have a crisis, you’re always going to have the extremists taking advantage of the situation.
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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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That frustration does translate into the political sphere when people are hungry and without jobs.
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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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Mr. President, prime ministers, let us have ambitions: ambitions to move beyond the violence and occupation, to the day when two states, Palestine and Israel, can live together side by side in peace and security.
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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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The Arab World is writing a new future; the pen is in our own hands.
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When we try to push the envelope, there are certain sectors of society that say this is a Zionist plot to sort of destabilize our country, or this is an American agenda.
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I believe nuclear energy in Jordan will be done in such a way where it is a public-private partnership so everyone can see exactly what’s going on.
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The brave pilot gave his life defending his faith, country and nation and joined other Jordanian martyrs who gave their lives for Jordan.
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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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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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The global system they hope to create is one of new walls and new isolation, and radically smaller horizons. It is an anti-democratic, anti-economic-growth, and anti-progress agenda.
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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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You’re always going to have extremists in every religion.
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