All this needs to stop. And we pledge that Jordan will do its utmost to help achieve it.
ABDULLAH III’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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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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My view is when you use violence on your people, that never ends well.
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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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And it’s about time that officials take their responsibility and are responsible in front of the people. Because today, if you’re appointed by the king, they don’t feel that they’re responsible for the people.
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You’re always going to have extremists in every religion.
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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.
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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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There are going to be a lot of questions, not just in my country, but across the Middle East.
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We want to be, I think, an example for the rest of the Arab world, because there are a lot of people who say that the only democracy you can have in the Middle East is the Muslim Brotherhood.
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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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The Arab World is writing a new future; the pen is in our own hands.
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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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Wikileaks didn’t help confidence with American administrations because of conversations made public so easily.
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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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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.
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