I don’t believe the United States will be ready to join Russia in fighting terrorists in Syria.
BASHAR AL-ASSADSince its very inception, Israel has been a threat.
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This is cooperation [with Hezbollah, Iran , from Russia], I don’t know what you mean by support. We have cooperation with countries for decades. Why talk about this cooperation now ?
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We’re not sure that if there’s chemical weapon used and who used it. We can’t talk about virtual things, we have to talk about facts.
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It’s our right to defend our country against any kind of invasion.
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Think of the war against terrorism. In my view, Washington’s approach can be compared to a doctor constantly banging away at a tumor instead of removing it surgically.
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We learned that lesson very well, especially in the eighties, that terrorists cannot be used as a political card, you cannot put it in your pocket, because it’s like a scorpion; it will bite you someday.
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Hamas will not disappear. Hamas will not raise the white flag. Hamas has the trust of the people, and anyone who wishes to destroy it must destroy an entire people.
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Israeli interests are not necessarily in harmony with the American interests.
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If you don’t win and the terrorists win, Syria wouldn’t exist anymore.
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The captain doesn’t think about death, or life, he thinks about saving his ship.
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Any cooperation that doesn’t go through the Syrian government is not legal. If it’s not legal, we cannot cooperate with, and we don’t recognize and we don’t accept.
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Any American strike will not destroy as much as the terrorists have already destroyed in Syria ; sometimes the repercussions could be many doubles the strike itself.
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Opposition is different from terrorism. Opposition is a political movement.
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It’s a dangerous thing when someone gets up in the morning and has nothing to eat.
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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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Tayyip Erdoğan is megalomaniac President, he is not stable. He lives during the Ottoman era, he doesn’t live in the current time. He’s out of touch with the reality.
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