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-ASSADThe question is who threw chemicals on the same day on our soldiers. That’s the same question. Technically, not the soldiers. Soldiers don’t throw missiles on themselves. So, either the rebels, the terrorists, or a third party. We don’t have any clue yet.
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This is reality. If [the American officials] want to believe, that’s good, that will help them understand the region and be more successful in their policies.
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Hizbullah is not a militia.
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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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In any war, people will pay the price.
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“Winning” is a subjective word, but we are making advancement. This is the correct word, because winning for some people is when you finish completely.
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We wouldn’t have withstood for two years and a half. We would have disintegration of the army, disintegration of the whole institution in the state.
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Any external support, if you want to call it support, let’s use this world, is… how to say… it’s going to be additional, but it’s not the base to depend on more than the Syrian support.
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You have different parties, different factions, you have different ideologies ; you have everything in Middle East region now.
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If you don’t win and the terrorists win, Syria wouldn’t exist anymore.
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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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The problem is not the occupation, but how people deal with it.
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It’s not exactly fair to make a mistake yourself and then start blaming others for it.
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No doubt that the U.S. is a super-power capable of conquering a relatively small country, but is it able to control it?
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That the rebels or the terrorists used the chemical weapons in northern Aleppo five months ago [in 2013].
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There can be no peace without unity.
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