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We’re talking about the responsibility, my responsibility according to the Syrian constitution that said we have to defend ourselves.

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Conversely, it is correct to say that bringing about peace would be the best way to fight terror.
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Fighting Peace Terror
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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Terrorism War West
No government in the world kills its people, unless it’s led by a crazy person.
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Crazy Government People
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
I don’t believe that in a couple of months Erdogan and the United States regime, and the Western regimes in general, and of course Saudi Arabia and Qatar, are going to stop the support of the terrorists.
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Believe Couple Qatar
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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Country Match Military Powerful
We always say we have wishful thinking that the Unites States would be unbiased, respect the international law, doesn’t interfere in other countries around the world, and of course to stop supporting terrorists in Syria.
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Country Law Thinking
You cannot be desperate when the army is making advances. That should have happened – if we take into consideration that this presumption is correct and this is reality – you use it when you’re in a desperate situation.
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Army Desperate Reality Situations
Israel does not care about the international public opinion.
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Country International Public Opinion
Almost all countries have natural dividing lines, and when ethnic and religious partition occurs in one country, it’ll soon happen elsewhere.
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Country Lines Religious
From the first day I took the decision as President to defend my country.
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Country Decision President
Freedom and democracy are nothing but instruments, just like stability. The goal is called progress and growth. Anyone who puts freedom ahead of stability is hurting growth.
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Goal Growth Hurt
Israeli interests are not necessarily in harmony with the American interests.
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Country Harmony Interest
Syria is geographically and politically in the middle of the Middle East.
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East Geographical Middle Political
As I said, this [repercussions] may take different forms : direct and indirect. Direct when people want to retaliate, or governments. Indirect when you’re going to have instability and the spread of terrorism all over the region that will influence the west directly.
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Different Government People
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

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