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.
ABDULLAH IIWhat keeps me up at night is poverty and unemployment.
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There is resistance to change. There’s a resistance to ideas.
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Peace with Israel is a strategic imperative for Jordan.
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We have to always hope in humanity that people will make the right choices.
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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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What keeps me up at night is poverty and unemployment.
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And 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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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 think the success of democracy is not really police security; it’s the presence of a broad middle class.
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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 think it’s almost impossible for any expert to predict for the rapid changes we see in the Middle East. They are rapid and they will continue for quite a while.
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Political development should start at the grassroots.
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I look at Jerusalem as being a beacon for the three monotheistic religions.
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The monarchy that I hand over to my son is not going to be the same one that I have inherited. … There is a tendency by a lot of officials to hide behind the king.
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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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There is a tendency by a lot of officials to hide behind the king. And it’s about time that officials take their responsibility and are responsible in front of the people.
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