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.
BASHAR AL-ASSADIt should be known that Israel is based on treachery.
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When you talk about cooperation, it means cooperation between two legal governments, not cooperation between foreign government and any faction within Syria.
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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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There can be no peace without unity.
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Israeli interests are not necessarily in harmony with the American interests.
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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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Despite the ethnic diversity within each nation, the social fabric of the region by and large is one.
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Actually, the terrorists have been killing our people since the beginning of this crisis two years and a half ago, and the Syrian people wanted the government and the state institutions and the army and the police to defend them, and that’s what happened.
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It would be a mistake to link anything that Israel does to a certain circumstance. And it is a mistake to feel comfortable in any circumstance just because Israel did not act on it.
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The American officials should learn to deal with reality. Why did the United States fail in most of its wars ? Because it always based its wars on the wrong information. So, whether they believe or not, this is not reality.
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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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Without the public support, we cannot withstand two years and a half. Look at the other countries, look what happened in Libya, in Tunisia and in Egypt.
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We have to be there to get the evidence like what happened in Aleppo when we had evidence. And because the United States didn’t send the team, we sent the evidence to the Russians.
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We’re not in the area where the alleged chemical attack happened. I said alleged. We’re not sure that anything happened.
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History teaches us that nobody can prevent a resistance group from arming when it has the support of the people.
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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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