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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.

Abdullah II

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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Around Ballot Box Elected Government Hard Need Work
Our response has been, “Well, let’s then make an effort to get the Israelis and the Palestinians to sit around the table.” That hasn’t happened. So we only have ourselves to blame for this crisis.
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Around Blame Effort Happened Palestinian Response Table
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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Cycle Event Process Success Successful View Virtuous
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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Iran Palestinian Play Result Table Talking
Many will view the compromises that will be made during your negotiations as painful concessions. But why not view them as peace offerings,
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Build Children Compromise Negotiation Offering Peace Success View
At the end of the day we want to bring stability and hope to Iraq. That’s the only way to defeat terrorism.
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Defeat Hope Iraq Stability Terrorism
The incentive that you give to your youth is going to be the make-or-break future of the country.
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Break Country Future Giving Incentive Make
Chemical weapons are something that scares everybody.
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Chemical Everybody Scare Something Weapon
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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Appointed Front Official People Responsibility Responsible Time Today
I hope that none of the countries in the Middle East are planning anything but the peaceful utilization of nuclear energy.
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Country Energy None Nuclear Peaceful
We’re never going to be able to get rid of terrorism, because there is always going to be evil in the world.
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Able Evil Rid Terrorism World
We have no right to dictate, through irresponsible action or narrow-mindedness, the future of our children, and our children’s children. There has been enough destruction, enough death, enough waste.
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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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Ambition Israel Moving Occupation President Prime Minister State Two Violence
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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Create Democratic Global Hope Horizon Isolation New Radically Smaller System Wall
I don’t think the Middle East could afford another war.
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Afford Middle East Thinking War
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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