3 December 2020 King Abdullah II 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.
3 December 2020 King Abdullah II I hope that none of the countries in the Middle East are planning anything but the peaceful utilization of nuclear energy.
3 December 2020 King Abdullah II We have to always hope in humanity that people will make the right choices.
3 December 2020 King Abdullah II At the end of the day we want to bring stability and hope to Iraq. That’s the only way to defeat terrorism.
3 December 2020 King 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.
3 December 2020 King Abdullah II The incentive that you give to your youth is going to be the make-or-break future of the country.
3 December 2020 King Abdullah II If you believe that the killing of innocent people is right, then you are not part of my future.
3 December 2020 King Abdullah II For me, I am left leaning when it comes to health and education, on the right when it comes to defense. So I don’t know where I come on the political spectrum. And I think this the challenge that a lot of Jordanians have to deal with.
3 December 2020 King Abdullah II If you look at military and intelligence positions from the 1950s, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has always been against American national interests.
3 December 2020 King Abdullah II 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.
3 December 2020 King Abdullah II 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.
3 December 2020 King Abdullah II Blowing up buses will not induce the Israelis to move forward, and neither will the killing of Palestinians or the demolition of their homes and their future. All this needs to stop. And we pledge that Jordan will do its utmost to help achieve it.
3 December 2020 King Abdullah II 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?
3 December 2020 King Abdullah II I think the debate in our society now is that people have to agree on zero-tolerance to terrorism.
3 December 2020 King Abdullah II The security and the future of Jordan is hand-in-hand with the future of the Palestinians and the Israelis.
3 December 2020 King Abdullah II 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.
