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It is difficult for anyone to tell you what is going to happen. [Middle East] is an area where everything is on the brink of explosion.

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Israel does not care about the international public opinion.
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Country International Public Opinion
Using terrorism or jihadists or extremists for any political agenda is immoral.
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Agendas Political Terrorism
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
Foreigners cannot bring freedom, cannot bring democracy, because this is related to the culture, to the different factors that affect or influence that society. You cannot bring it, you cannot import it.
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Culture Democracy Different
[It is important] to have stability and to have security, which means humanitarian equals fighting terrorists. You cannot talk about humanitarian aid and supporting the terrorists at the same time. You cannot, you have to choose.
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Fighting Important Mean
For the West, they wanted to undermine the Syrian positions. For the petrodollar countries like Saudi Arabia, they’re thinking undermining Syria will undermine Iran on sectarian basis.
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Country Petrodollar Thinking Undermining
Fighting the terrorists in Syria is not only in the interest of Syria or the Syrian people; in the interest of the Middle East, of Europe itself.
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Fighting People Something Terrorist
Circumstances don’t matter, only my state of being matters. What state of being are you choosing?
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Attitude Matter States
That’s all before the crisis. We always have this kind of cooperation with Iran [Supplies, weaponry].
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Cooperation Country Kind
We are dealing with treachery and threats, which accompanied the establishment of Israel.
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Country Establishment Threat
According to what we’ve been seeing recently in the area where the terrorists control, where they ban people from going to schools, ban young men from shaving their beards, and women have to be covered from head to toe.
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Men People School
I don’t want to talk about methods of killing. But what is the difference between a bomb worn on the body and one dropped from an airplane? Both of them kill people.
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Airplane Differences People
The logical thing is to implement the Arab Defense Agreement.
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Agreement Defense Logical
Did the President order anyone to kill civilians, did he order the destruction, did he order supporting terrorism in his country? Of course not.
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Country Order President
It’s not religious war, but Al-Qaeda always use religions, Islam – actually, as a pretext and as a cover and as a mantle for their war and for their terrorism and for their killing and beheading and so on.
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Islam Religious War
The army is making good advancement on daily basis against the terrorists. Of course, they still have the support of Turkey, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and some Western countries including the United States, but the only option that we have in that regard is to win.
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Army Country Winning

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