Marwan al-Muasher Quotes
The old notion: security brings peace. The new notion: peace brings security.
Marwan Mu’Asher, Information Minister of Jordan, Presentation, Washington Institute for Near East Policy, June 15, 1996
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Mohamed Anwar El-Sedat. This was the famous speech that started the peace process in motion.
There were many who believed that a thriving growth economy depended in part on wartime military spending levels. The issue is still controversial.
He was referring to the national budget where so much money was spent on the military that there was little left over to finance new initiatives.
Marwan al-Muasher (Arabic: مروان المعشر) (born 1956) is a Jordanian diplomat and politician who was Jordan's foreign minister from 2002 to 2004 and its deputy prime minister during 2004 and 2005. He currently serves as vice president for studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where he oversees research on the Middle East. He was Jordan's first ambassador to Israel and former ambassador to the United States.