Peace with Israel is a strategic imperative for Jordan.
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.
More Abdullah II Quotes
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The incentive that you give to your youth is going to be the make-or-break future of the country.
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What keeps me up at night is poverty and unemployment.
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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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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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I’m not the type of person that is forced.
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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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I believe strongly in the rights of women… my mother is a woman, my sister is a woman, my daughter is a woman, my wife is a woman.
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There are so many different sub-societies inside of Syria.
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There is resistance to change. There’s a resistance to ideas.
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Don’t take ‘no’ for an answer.
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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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I think the debate in our society now is that people have to agree on zero-tolerance to terrorism.
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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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It is always dangerous to underestimate anybody.
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Ones that will provide in return the priceless gifts of hope, security and freedom for our children and our children’s?
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