"Without peace and without the overwhelming majority of people that believe in peace defending it, working for it, believing in it, security can never really be a reality.“


-King Hussein I

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Without peace and without the overwhelming majority of people that believe in peace defending it, working for it, believing in it, security can never really be a reality.

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