The incentive that you give to your youth is going to be the make-or-break future of the country.
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More Abdullah II Quotes
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The security and the future of Jordan is hand-in-hand with the future of the Palestinians and the Israelis.
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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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The stronger the middle class of a people is, the less you have to worry about one group coming in and exploiting the democratic process for its own ends.
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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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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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You’re always going to have terrorism.
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I look at Jerusalem as being a beacon for the three monotheistic religions.
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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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It’s a tremendous responsibility to be direct descendants of the prophet Muhammad. This family has had the burden of leadership on its shoulders for 1,400 years. I’m not going to drop the ball on my shift.
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I’m easily entertained.
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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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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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Jerusalem is a time bomb that I fear is just waiting to go off.
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We have peace with Israel. We’re actually the last man standing. So there is going to be immense pressure and people asking,
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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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