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" After all, I think Jerusalem is part of the, of the world's heritage. "
Jerusalem
World
Think
" All what we hope for is that a day will come, when we have all gone, when people will say that this man has tried, and his family tried. This is all there is to seek in this world. "
Hope
World
Day
" At seventeen, I knew the end of a dream... I would never be a schoolboy again. "
End
Never
Seventeen
" For our part, we shall continue to work for the new dawn when all the Children of Abraham and their descendants are living together in the birthplace of their three great monotheistic religions, a life free from fear, a life free from want - a life in peace. "
Life
Great
Children
" Fundamentalism as it is called is not confined to the Muslim world. It is something that we have seen in different parts of the world. Let us hope that a dialogue between the followers of the three great monotheistic religions could help in putting an end to this. "
World
End
Great
" 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. "
Help
Ideas
Minds
" God willing, we shall come to a stage where the world looks at the Palestinian question, and Palestinian rights on Palestinian national soil, as well as the questions of the occupied Syrian and Lebanese territories. These are the bases on which peace will be built. "
Questions
Looks
God
" I am ever mindful of the legacy of my grandfather, the founder of this Kingdom, who had said to me that he perceived his life as a link in a continuous chain of those who served our nation and that he expected me to be a new and strong link in the same chain. "
Legacy
Me
Strong
" I am pro-peace. "
Am
I Am
" I am totally against the idea that a Muslim woman should not have the same opportunities as a Muslim man to learn, to open up, to work, help shape the future. To close Islam down to a sexist approach is totally intolerable and ridiculous. It's not Islam. "
Work
Man
I Am
" I have said this in the past and I will continue to repeat it as long as I live: Whoever tries to hurt our national unity is my enemy until the day of judgement. "
Hurt
Unity
Long
" I'm proud of what I've done in Jordan, but the region itself is sitting on a time bomb. "
Bomb
Region
Sitting
" I, not for the first time, would like to say that I never took a pro-Iraq position during the Gulf War. "
Never
Time
War
" In this life struggle, here I am among you fully cognizant that a true believer has no fear of what God has ordained for him. Those who are visited by fear live only for their present, under the illusion that the world began with them and will end with their departure. "
Fear
God
I Am
" It is my firm belief that I have a link with the past and a responsibility to the future. I cannot give up. I cannot despair. There's a whole future, generations to come. I have to keep trying. "
Trying
Responsibility
Future
" It is not enough to tackle the mechanics of terror organizations. We must also tackle the situations that create terrorists. We desperately need to address the frustration, the loss and the despair that drive some to these actions. "
Create
Frustration
Drive
" 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. "
World
Tragedy
Solution
" 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. "
Peace
Want
Simple
" I will never work merely to make a reputation for myself, to be popular for appearances rather than for what I am. My task is to lead my country through service. "
Service
Work
Reputation
" I wish to say to you that the life of an enlightened people and a vibrant nation cannot be measured by the life of an individual. A successful person is one who manages to lay down a new stone, a brick that would help firm up his nation's existence. "
Wish
People
Life
" 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. "
Love
Great
Beauty
" Jordan has a very important part in any Arab-Israeli peace process. "
Peace
Important
Jordan
" Jordan seeks to play only one role, that of a model state. It is our aim to set an example for our Arab brethren, not one that they need follow but one that will inspire them to seek a higher, happier destiny within their own borders. "
Play
Own
Need
" 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. "
Heart
Life
Me
" 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. "
Financial
Gun
Road
" Our religion does not discriminate according to color, sex or anything else. What counts is piety and faith. "
Anything
Color
Faith
" Personality is reduced and deformed with depleted thoughts and stagnant mind. "
Thoughts
Stagnant
Personality
" Real victories are those that protect human life, not those that result from its destruction or emerge from its ashes. "
Real
Result
Protect
" Sometimes, leaders' failures can cost these young people's lives. "
Leaders
Cost
People
" The absence and suppression of justice can only open the way for extremists to exploit such a condition to perpetrate acts of violence against innocents. "
Way
Violence
Open
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