We have to always hope in humanity that people will make the right choices.
ABDULLAH IIThe 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.
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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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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 look at Jerusalem as being a beacon for the three monotheistic religions.
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It’s a burden, but it needs to be done, and you have to have the courage and wisdom to see it through.
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Peace with Israel is a strategic imperative for Jordan.
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You’re always going to have terrorism.
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Blowing up buses will not induce the Israelis to move forward, and neither will the killing of Palestinians or the demolition of their homes and their future.
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All this needs to stop. And we pledge that Jordan will do its utmost to help achieve it.
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Jerusalem is a time bomb that I fear is just waiting to go off.
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There are so many different sub-societies inside of Syria.
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I’m not the type of person that is forced.
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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.
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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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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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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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