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Davos Speech
Her Majesty Queen Rania Al-Abdullah of Jordan
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These values are goals, certainly - ideals to aim for in the best of worlds. But let me suggest that today peace, opportunity, and...
They drive twenty-first century success no less than energy or technology. In that sense, peace and opportunity and tolerance are not luxuries, not the final icing on the cake. They are the very bread of life, the fuel that is needed, right now, for a safe, free, and prosperous world.
To me, these questions are made very urgent by the "hope gap" that I have seen around the globe - the dangerous gulf between those people who really feel part of this new century and the many, far too many, who feel left behind. . . .
Think about a boy in the West Bank who powers on a computer and looks through a virtual window onto a world of peace and prosperity. Then he looks out his own window at barricades and violence and closed streets. And this goes on year after year.
What's at risk for that child and other children, on both sides of this conflict, is trust that peace can ever be real. That is an attitude they will carry into adult life if we don't make a difference now.
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