The Middle East has the highest unemployment percentage of any region in the world we have the largest youth cohort of history coming into the market place t
ABDULLAH IIFifty-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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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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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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It is always dangerous to underestimate anybody.
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There is resistance to change. There’s a resistance to ideas.
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I think the success of democracy is not really police security; it’s the presence of a broad middle class.
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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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When you get billions in aid and your weapons resupplied and your ammunition stock resupplied, you don’t learn the lesson that war is bad and nobody wins.
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Jerusalem is a time bomb that I fear is just waiting to go off.
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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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It’s a tremendous responsibility to be direct descendants of the prophet Muhammad. This family has had the burden of leadership on its shoulders for 1,400 years. I’m not going to drop the ball on my shift.
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Today more than ever we need creative minds to address the issues of the age. And one of the most urgent is this: How can humanity know so much, achieve so much, and still fail so many people so badly?
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I’m easily entertained.
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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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That frustration does translate into the political sphere when people are hungry and without jobs.
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