At the end of the day we want to bring stability and hope to Iraq. That’s the only way to defeat terrorism.
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.
More Abdullah II Quotes
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Remember you don’t do anything in isolation.
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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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That frustration does translate into the political sphere when people are hungry and without jobs.
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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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We have to always hope in humanity that people will make the right choices.
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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 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 security and the future of Jordan is hand-in-hand with the future of the Palestinians and the Israelis.
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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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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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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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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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Prime Minister Sharon, Prime Minister Abbas, I urge you today to end the designs of those who seek destruction, annihilation and occupation, and I urge you to have the will and the courage to begin to realize our dreams of peace, prosperity and coexistence.
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There is resistance to change. There’s a resistance to ideas.
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