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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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Simply naming objectives isn’t sufficient for a vision. If I say that I’m going to build a large palace, but I don’t have any money to do so, then that is not a vision – it’s an illusion.
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Illusion Palaces Vision
Revolution should be Syrian, cannot be revolution imported from abroad.
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Abroad Imported Revolution Should
The army is making good advancement on daily basis against the terrorists. Of course, they still have the support of Turkey, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and some Western countries including the United States, but the only option that we have in that regard is to win.
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Army Country Winning
I don’t believe the United States will be ready to join Russia in fighting terrorists in Syria.
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Believe Country Fighting Join
Israeli interests are not necessarily in harmony with the American interests.
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Country Harmony Interest
From Russia for example, we have political support, which is different from the cooperation. We have cooperation for 60 years now, but now we have political support.
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Country Support Years
Opposition doesn’t mean to take arms and kill people and destroy everything.
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Arms Mean People
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
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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Circumstances Comfortable Country Mistake
I believe that the United States is not genuine regarding having a cessation of violence in Syria.
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Believe United States Violence
None of us and none of the Arabs trust Israel.
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Country Hope Trust
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
[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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Country Independent Years
No government in the world kills its people, unless it’s led by a crazy person.
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Crazy Government People
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
Its not about learning to trust. Its about learning what it is I place my trust in and why. Its like learning to see the forest for the trees. You cannot see the forest for the trees unless you are outside the forest.
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Awareness Forests Tree

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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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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