They need money from abroad, they need moral support and political support from abroad. They don’t have any grassroots, any incubator. So, when you stop the smuggling, we don’t have problems.
BASHAR AL-ASSADWhen you have terrorists, you don’t throw at them balloons or you don’t use rubber sticks, for example. You have to use armaments.
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We’re talking about one region, bigger regions, not only about Syria. This interlinked region, this intermingled, interlocked, whatever you want to call it ; if you strike somewhere, you have to expect the repercussions somewhere else in different forms in ways you don’t expect.
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Despite the ethnic diversity within each nation, the social fabric of the region by and large is one.
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It is natural that we should always expect an Israeli attack, even when it does not threaten.
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We believe that Lebanon has been the first real experience for all the Arabs.
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It should be known that Israel is based on treachery.
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We don’t discuss this issue [ chemical weapons ] in public because we never said that we have it, and we never said that we don’t have it. It’s a Syrian issue ; it’s a military issue we never discuss in public with anyone.
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We are dealing with treachery and threats, which accompanied the establishment of Israel.
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Every friend of Syria is looking for peaceful solution, and we are convinced about that. We have this advice, and without this advice we are convinced about it.
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At the end, killing is killing. Massacring is massacring.
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We are fully free, not partially, fully free, in everything related to the future of Syria.
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If you ask Americans whether they’ve been successful at sealing the border with Mexico, they’ll tell you that it’s a very difficult proposition.
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My country and me, we are part of this region, we’re not separated. We cannot discuss it as Syria or as me ; it should be as part, as a whole, as comprehensive. That’s how we have to look at it.
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We can say, you can win the war only when you restore stability in Syria.
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From the first day I took the decision as President to defend my country.
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Whenever you have a war, the civilians and the innocents will pay the price. That’s in any war, any war is a bad war.
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