Amman Quotes

• You know, if you want to meet a lot of Iraqi leaders, the best places are the hotels in Amman or in London. In general the government here is amazingly unpopular.

  Patrick Cockburn

  Government, Leader, Want

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• A Christian state should be established [in Lebanon], with its southern border on the Litani river. We will make an alliance with it. When we smash the Arab Legion's strength and bomb Amman, we will eliminate Transjordan too, and then Syria will fall. If Egypt still dares to fight on, we shall bomb Port Said, Alexandria and Cairo.

  David Ben-Gurion

  Christian, Fashion, War

  "The 1982 invasion of Lebanon". International Socialist Review, Issue 50, www.isreview.org. November–December 2006.

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• We have received unconfirmed reports out of our embassy in Amman in Jordan that two Indonesian nationals, or precisely two Indonesian reporters ... have been taken away by armed individuals.

  Marty Natalegawa

  Taken, Two, Jordan

  "Iraq: Indonesia reporters missing". www.cnn.com. February 18, 2005.

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• Everywhere I go - from villages outside Kandy, Sri Lanka, to community centers in Amman, Jordan, to offices at the State Department in Washington, D.C. - I find people with a similar story. When thousands of people discover that their story is also someone else's story, they have the chance to write a new story together.

  Eboo Patel

  Writing, Sri Lanka, People

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• The Amman Agreement failed because there was American pressure, and Israeli pressure, on Jordan to deal alone.

  Yasser Arafat

  Agreement, Jordan, Pressure

  Source: www.nybooks.com

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