3 December 2020 King Hussein I Under the auspices of peace, our comprehensive renaissance will be built, and it will be a model for those who wish to emulate it in the greater Arab homeland.
3 December 2020 King Hussein I I want to say a simple thing, that the dividing line exists not between Jordan and Israel, but between the proponents of peace and the opponents of peace.
3 December 2020 King Hussein I We believe that peace is not just signed papers, but rather a contract between generations for the building of a more promising and less threatening future.
3 December 2020 King Hussein I God help us from those who believe that they are the sole possessors of truth. How we manage at times to agree willingly to become prisoners within our own minds and souls of beliefs and ideas on which we can never be flexible.
3 December 2020 King Hussein I Our religion does not discriminate according to color, sex or anything else. What counts is piety and faith.
3 December 2020 King Hussein I We belong to the camp of peace. We believe in peace. We believe that our one God wishes us to live in peace and wishes peace upon us, for these are His teachings to all the followers of the three great monotheistic religions, the Children of Abraham.
3 December 2020 King Hussein I It would behoove the world to become used to this fact: that without a just solution to the Palestine tragedy, there can be no stable peace in the Middle East.
3 December 2020 King Hussein I The link between peace and stability on the one hand, and social and economic growth on the other, is dialectic. Peace, poverty, and backwardness cannot mix in one region.
3 December 2020 King Hussein I Nothing is more useless in developing a nation’s economy than a gun, and nothing blocks the road to social development more than the financial burden of war. War is the arch enemy of national progress and the modern scourge of civilized men.
3 December 2020 King Hussein I Without peace and without the overwhelming majority of people that believe in peace defending it, working for it, believing in it, security can never really be a reality.
3 December 2020 King Hussein I Jordan has a strange, haunting beauty and a sense of timelessness. Dotted with the ruins of empires once great, it is the last resort of yesterday in the world of tomorrow. I love every inch of it.
3 December 2020 King Hussein I We respect opposition to any position or policy. But we believe that the opinion that should prevail and be respected is that of the majority.
3 December 2020 King Hussein I Let me say this loud and clear. There is a world of difference between terrorist acts and the Islamic Shari’a. Islam is not only a religion, but a way of life. And at its heart lie the sacred principles of tolerance and dialogue.
