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.
BASHAR AL-ASSADWhether [Turkey] is a NATO country or not, it doesn’t have the right to invade any other country according to the international law or to any other moral value.
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We believe that Lebanon has been the first real experience for all the Arabs.
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I don’t believe the United States will be ready to join Russia in fighting terrorists in Syria.
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When people interact and integrate with each other on daily basis in every detail. So, I think in this regard I am more assured that Syria will be more unified. So, the only problem now that we face is not the partition, but terrorism.
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This war [in Syria] is going to support Al-Qaeda and the same people that killed Americans in the 11th of September.
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Regarding fighting terrorism, we are ready to cooperate with anyone in this world with no conditions. That’s crux of our policy, not today, not yesterday; for years, even before the war on Syria, we always said that.
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In any war, people will pay the price.
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You in Lebanon, your power is no match to Israel. Israel, militarily, is more powerful than you and maybe it is more powerful than all the Arab countries, or most of them.
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The army is made of the people ; it cannot be made of robots.
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The United States accused Syria, and because you accused you have to bring evidence [of chemical weapons], this first of all. We have to find evidences when we are there.
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We have the precedent of Collin Powell ten years ago, when he showed the evidence, it was false, and it was forged.
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The fact that there are people who criticize me doesn’t mean that people hate me.
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Look at the results of regime change in Iraq. You can’t possibly claim that it was successful.
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Let’s talk… we have indications, let me just finish this point, because how can use WMD while your troops are only 100 meters away from it ? Is it logical ? It doesn’t happen. It cannot be used like this.
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Israel has WMD, and it has to sign [chemical warfare agreement], and Israel is occupying our land, so that’s we talked about the Middle East, not Syria, not Israel ; it should be comprehensive.
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There can be no peace without unity.
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