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.
BASHAR AL-ASSADWe’re talking about the responsibility, my responsibility according to the Syrian constitution that said we have to defend ourselves.
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Circumstances don’t matter, only my state of being matters. What state of being are you choosing?
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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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It’s very simple ; once the Western countries stop supporting those terrorists and making pressure on their puppet countries and client states like Saudi Arabia and Turkey and others, you’ll have no problem in Syria. It will be solved easily.
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It’s not religious war, but Al-Qaeda always use religions, Islam – actually, as a pretext and as a cover and as a mantle for their war and for their terrorism and for their killing and beheading and so on.
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This is where we can discuss the evidence [of the chemical weapons ], but he doesn’t have it. He didn’t present it because he doesn’t have it, Kerry doesn’t have it. No one in your administration has it. If they had it, they would have presented it to you as media from the first day.
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When you have terrorism, you have a war. When you have a war, you always have innocent lives that could be the victim of any war, so, we don’t have to discuss what the image in the west before discussing the image in Syria. That’s the question.
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You hardly find any military base in distant areas from the [Syria] cities unless it’s an airport or something like this, but most of the military bases or centers within inhabited areas.
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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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I will tell [Barack Obama] very simply : present what you have as evidence to the public, be transparent.
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Hizbullah is not a militia.
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You should expect everything. Not necessarily through the government, the governments are not the only player in [Middle East] region.
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In the end a lie is a lie.
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Opposition is different from terrorism. Opposition is a political movement.
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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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We asked for a delegation [of the Red Cross] in March 2013 when the first attack happened in Aleppo in the north of Syria,
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