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How could that army do that if it’s a family army or a sect army ? What about the rest of the country who support the government ? It’s not realistic, it doesn’t happen. Otherwise, the whole country will collapse.

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When 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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Example Rubber Use
It is natural that we should always expect an Israeli attack, even when it does not threaten.
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Doe Hair Natural
The United States’ credibility is at an all-time low. So, this war is against the interest of the Untied States.
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All Low Time United States War
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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Issues Military Weapons
I think sadness prevails in Syria now. We don’t feel anything else but sadness because we have this killing every day, whether with chemical or any other kind.
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Kind Sadness Thinking
The problem is not the occupation, but how people deal with it.
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Occupation People Problem
We don’t have a lot of expectations [for Donald J. Trump] because the American administration is not only about the President; it’s about different powers within this administration, the different lobbies that they are going to influence any President.
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Administration Expectations President
History teaches us that nobody can prevent a resistance group from arming when it has the support of the people.
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Groups People Support
The problem with every American candidate regarding the presidency, I am not talking only about this campaign or elections, but generally, that they say something during the campaign and they do the opposite after the campaign.
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Campaigns Opposites Talking
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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Border Country Proposition Successful
Why should you use a term [rebels] in the United States and England and maybe other countries and use another term in Syria ? This is a double standard that we don’t accept.
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Country Rebel United States
If there is any change regarding that hope, we should ask the Syrian people, not anyone else in the world.
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Anyone People Regard World
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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Firsts United States Weapons
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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Country Half Look Year
The Israeli lobby has clout in the U.S., which means that re-arranging the region and controlling its resources one way or another, will serve Israel through its control over the American administration.
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Another Country Mean Resources
Even a president makes mistakes.
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Making Mistake President
Syria is geographically and politically in the middle of the Middle East.
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East Geographical Middle Political
Because of this interference for the last fifty years, that’s why they are very good only in creating problems, not in solving problems. That’s the problem with the American role.
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We don’t say that we don’t have it, we’re still secular in Syria, but with the time, this secularism will be eroded.
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Country Secular Secularism
Syria is geographically and politically in the middle of the Middle East. That is why we are in contact with most of the problems forever, let us say, whether directly or indirectly.
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East Forever Middle Problem
We have agreements with many countries including Iran, including Russia, including other countries that are about different things including armament. It’s cooperation like any cooperation between any two countries, which is normal. It’s not related to the crisis.
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Agreement Country Different Things
[The Jews] tried to kill the principles of all religions with the same mentality in which they betrayed Jesus Christ and the same way they tried to betray and kill the Prophet Muhammad.
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Betrayed Jesus Principles
We didn’t say that 80% [of terrorists], for example, or the majority or the vast majority, are foreigners. We said the vast majority are Al-Qaeda or Al-Qaeda offshoot organizations in this region.
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Example Majority Organization
The logical thing is to implement the Arab Defense Agreement.
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Agreement Defense Logical
In the United States, they always talk about subtitles, about chapters in a book without taking the main title of the book. They talk about a subtitle in a chapter and if you ask them about the headline, the main title, they say they do not know.
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Book Titles United States
Israel does not care about the international public opinion.
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Country International Public Opinion
As soon as the legitimate Lebanese government is convinced that the conditions have ripened and that Lebanon is able to maintain stability on its own… Then, the Syrian forces will return to their homeland.
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Government Lebanon

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