With the time, yes we can be worried, because the secular state should reflect secular society, and this secular society, with the time, if you don’t get rid of those terrorists and these extremists and the Wahabi style, of course it will influence at least the new and the coming generations.
BASHAR AL-ASSADFor the West, they wanted to undermine the Syrian positions. For the petrodollar countries like Saudi Arabia, they’re thinking undermining Syria will undermine Iran on sectarian basis.
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If there is any change regarding that hope, we should ask the Syrian people, not anyone else in the world.
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History teaches us that nobody can prevent a resistance group from arming when it has the support of the people.
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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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We don’t discuss this issue [conversations with Russia] as a government, but we discuss the repercussions, which is more important because sometimes repercussions could be more destroying than the strike itself.
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Lebanon was under Israeli occupation, up to its capital, but we did not consider that a disaster. Why? Because it was very clear that there are ways to resist.
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It is natural that we should always expect an Israeli attack, even when it does not threaten.
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No government in the world kills its people, unless it’s led by a crazy person.
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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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It is not my democracy as a person; it is our democracy as a society.
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Many people do not understand the difference between peace and a peace treaty. If you want to have real peace with normal relations between people, you need to have comprehensive peace.
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None of us and none of the Arabs trust Israel.
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We’ve been dealing with this kind of terrorism since the fifties, since the Muslim Brotherhood came to Syria at that time.
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Syria is geographically and politically in the middle of the Middle East.
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Iran doesn’t have any soldier in Syria, so how could Iran help me ?
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Fighting the terrorists in Syria is not only in the interest of Syria or the Syrian people; in the interest of the Middle East, of Europe itself.
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