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Israeli interests are not necessarily in harmony with the American interests.

Bashar al-Assad

You cannot have democracy without the institutions. You cannot have a democracy that is built on the moods of self-interested people.
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Democracy People Self
There is no such things as “Islamic terrorism,” because terrorism differs from Islam. There’s just terrorism, not Islamic terrorism. But the term “Islamic terrorism” has become widespread.
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Differ Religious Term Terrorism
We have agreements with many countries including Iran, including Russia, including other countries that are about different things including armament. It’s cooperation like any cooperation between any two countries, which is normal. It’s not related to the crisis.
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Agreement Country Different Things
People do not only live on interests; they also live on beliefs, especially in very ideological areas. Unless you understand the ideological aspect of the region, you cannot understand what is happening.
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Aspect Belief People
Lebanon was under Israeli occupation, up to its capital, but we did not consider that a disaster. Why? Because it was very clear that there are ways to resist.
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Eugenics Lebanon Occupation
There’s a video on YouTube where the terrorists clearly make trials [of chemical weapons] on a rabbit and kill the rabbit and said “this is how we’re going to kill the Syrian people.”
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People Rabbits Video
This is reality. If [the American officials] want to believe, that’s good, that will help them understand the region and be more successful in their policies.
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Believe Reality Successful
You cannot reform your society or institution without opening your mind. So the core issue is how to open the mind, the whole society, and this means everybody in society including everyone.
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Issue Mean Talking
I don’t believe in war, I believe in the principle of deterrence.
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Believe Principles War
The Israeli lobby has clout in the U.S., which means that re-arranging the region and controlling its resources one way or another, will serve Israel through its control over the American administration.
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Another Country Mean Resources
As I said, this [repercussions] may take different forms : direct and indirect. Direct when people want to retaliate, or governments. Indirect when you’re going to have instability and the spread of terrorism all over the region that will influence the west directly.
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Different Government People
We would have disintegration of Syria if that was the case. It can’t be tolerated in Syria. I’m talking about the normal reaction of the people.
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Country Normal People Reaction Tolerate
From Russia for example, we have political support, which is different from the cooperation. We have cooperation for 60 years now, but now we have political support.
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Country Support Years
It is not my democracy as a person; it is our democracy as a society.
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Democracy Persons Society
Those who arrived on America’s tanks are not credible in Iraq.
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Country Credible Tank
Opposition doesn’t mean to take arms and kill people and destroy everything.
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Arms Mean People

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