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.
I'm proud of what I've done in Jordan, but the region itself is sitting on a time bomb.
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.
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.
At seventeen, I knew the end of a dream... I would never be a schoolboy again.
Jordan has a very important part in any Arab-Israeli peace process.
