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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.

Abdullah II

Jerusalem is a time bomb that I fear is just waiting to go off.
ABDULLAH II

Bombs Fear Jerusalem Time Waiting
Earth’s dispossessed are vulnerable targets for extremists: those who teach that global justice is meaningless; that satisfaction can come only in violence, division, and intellectual isolation.
ABDULLAH II

Global Intellectual Justice Meaningless Satisfaction Target
I hope that none of the countries in the Middle East are planning anything but the peaceful utilization of nuclear energy.
ABDULLAH II

Country Energy None Nuclear Peaceful
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.
ABDULLAH II

King Official People Responsibility Tendency
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.
ABDULLAH II

Country Destabilize Envelope Plot Sector Trying Zionist
My view is when you use violence on your people, that never ends well.
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End never People Use View Violence Well
I think the success of democracy is not really police security; it’s the presence of a broad middle class.
ABDULLAH II

Class Democracy People Police Pressure Security Success Thinking
I like to look at the glass half full.
ABDULLAH II

Full Glass Half Looks
Don’t take ‘no’ for an answer.
ABDULLAH II

Allow Answer never No
I’m easily entertained.
ABDULLAH II

Easily Entertained Fun One Liner
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.
ABDULLAH II

Challenge Defense Education Health Learning Political Thinking
If you look at military and intelligence positions from the 1950s, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has always been against American national interests.
ABDULLAH II

Conflict Intelligence Look Military National Position
Each country its cost analysis is going to be different. So what we are you seeing in Syria, for example, is different than what’s going on in Jordan. The maps are being rewritten.
ABDULLAH II

Analysis Country Different Example
The Arab World is writing a new future; the pen is in our own hands.
ABDULLAH II

Future Hand New Own World Writing
All this needs to stop. And we pledge that Jordan will do its utmost to help achieve it.
ABDULLAH II

Achieve Jordan Need Pledge Stop
At the end of the day we want to bring stability and hope to Iraq. That’s the only way to defeat terrorism.
ABDULLAH II

Defeat Hope Iraq Stability Terrorism

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