I think the debate in our society now is that people have to agree on zero-tolerance to terrorism.
ABDULLAH IIIf everybody is happy, then something is wrong with the democratic process.
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That frustration does translate into the political sphere when people are hungry and without jobs.
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When you get billions in aid and your weapons resupplied and your ammunition stock resupplied, you don’t learn the lesson that war is bad and nobody wins.
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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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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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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 hope that none of the countries in the Middle East are planning anything but the peaceful utilization of nuclear energy.
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There are so many different sub-societies inside of Syria.
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Wikileaks didn’t help confidence with American administrations because of conversations made public so easily.
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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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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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Whenever you have a crisis, you’re always going to have the extremists taking advantage of the situation.
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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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Jerusalem is a time bomb that I fear is just waiting to go off.
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What keeps me up at night is poverty and unemployment.
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