Abdullah II of Jordan Quotes

Successful nations make a point of trying to learn from their neighbors. The Arab world has been taught over generations only to hate theirs.

It's not for the president to determine the arrangements between Israel and the Palestinians, and the Arab world, but to be the bridge between opinions and to facilitate dialogue and understanding.

It is the hope of the European Union that Ariel Sharon will keep the peace process alive and continue the dialogue according to the wishes of all the parties involved.

It is high time that the Arab world's professed desire for peace is matched by responsible action, and not more of the same equivocation.

We all should respect Chris Stevens, who dedicated his life to trying to improve relations between the Arab world and the western world.

When Ukrainians and Israelis speak to each other, each side respects the other.

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.

I believe however that peace is attainable regardless of the Arabs mentality, society or government.

The failure to set standards for Palestinian conduct hurts the cause of peace.

We must see what in the Israeli identity - in the Israeli - we can give to other people rather than speaking so often of taking, expanding territory.

Israel desperately needs peace if it is to come anywhere close to being the 'light unto nations' of Jewish dreams.

As film-makers, it is very important for us to find common ground between cultures, and maybe that's less the case for politicians who benefit more from finding the conflicts and differences between us.

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.

The exchange program is the thing that reconciles me to all the difficulties of political life.

How will decent people in the region ever believe in peace if Arab terrorists interpret every gesture of peace as a display of weakness and then act accordingly?

I'm on the board of directors for Peace Now, which works tirelessly between the Palestinians and the Israelis to create peace in the Middle East and we've never been closer.

Yes, Israel's our ally. But, are the Palestinians our enemy? No, they are not.

There is nothing that I'd love to do more than negotiate with Palestinians. This is my desire. This is my dream. This is my mission.

I hope that France - and all of Europe - we would take an initiative for the year 2012 to be the year of peace between Israel and the Palestinians.

Myself, I don't think you will ever get security in the Mideast until you have what on the surface appears to be fair to both sides. You have to have leaders committed to peace, on both sides. One side can't impose a solution.

The greatest security for Israel is to create new Egypts.

The security and the future of Jordan is hand-in-hand with the future of the Palestinians and the Israelis.

I don't believe that economic and cultural interaction automatically brings greater peace and understanding, although it may help in that regard.

It is time to drop the negative attitudes towards Israel, and relations with it. The basic value of the peace accord between Egypt and Israel lies in the fact that it expunges the term 'prohibition' or 'taboo,' which was created in the past by Arab policies towards Israel, and which turned relations with Israel into an abomination that could not be allowed.

In order to have peace in the Middle East both sides are going to have to put away history and make a leap of faith.