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.
ABDULLAH IIIf 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.
More Abdullah II Quotes
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Wikileaks didn’t help confidence with American administrations because of conversations made public so easily.
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Through Hamas, Iran has been able to buy itself a seat on the table in talking about the Palestinian issue. And, as a result, through Hamas it does play a role in the issue of the Palestinians, as strange as that should sound.
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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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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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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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For me, I am left leaning when it comes to health and education, on the right when it comes to defense. So I don’t know where I come on the political spectrum. And I think this the challenge that a lot of Jordanians have to deal with.
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I like to look at the glass half full.
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You’re always going to have extremists in every religion.
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We have to always hope in humanity that people will make the right choices.
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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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If everybody is happy, then something is wrong with the democratic process.
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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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It is always dangerous to underestimate anybody.
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Fifty-seven countries in the world, a third of the United Nations, do not recognize Israel. In a way, I think North Korea has better international relations than Israel.
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