It is natural that we should always expect an Israeli attack, even when it does not threaten.
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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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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It’s our right to defend our country against any kind of invasion.
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The Russians are fighting for us, for the world, and for their self.
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None of us and none of the Arabs trust Israel.
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[United States] are sovereign country, they are an independent country, but this is their limit; they don’t have to interfere in any other country.
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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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We’ve been living in difficult circumstances and we prepare ourselves for every possibility. But that doesn’t mean if you’re prepared things will be better ; it’s going to get worse with any foolish strike or stupid war.
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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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[ Jihadists] are going to be against you sooner or later.
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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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There is no good war.
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You look at [terrorists] faces, they look foreigners, but where are they coming from ? How precise this estimate is difficult to tell, but definitely the majority are Al-Qaeda.
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It’s a dangerous thing when someone gets up in the morning and has nothing to eat.
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Israel does not care about the international public opinion.
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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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