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For 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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Those fighters, the Syrian part that you’re talking about, lost its natural incubators in the Syrian society – they don’t have incubators anymore ; that’s why they have incubators abroad.
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Political Support Talking
In Great Britain, an author published a book in which he claimed that Jesus Christ had children. Such statements don’t trigger civil unrest and bloodshed in Europe. But write similar statements about Islam in Syria and you might see bloody uprisings.
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Book Children Jesus
When they don’t have support within their country, they couldn’t continue more than – how many weeks ? – three weeks. So, the only reason we stand here for two years and a half is because we have internal support, public support.
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Continue Country More Support Week
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.
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Secular Society Style Time Worry Yes
Trust that the thing in life that excites you the most comes complete with all the tools necessary to support you in the doing of that thing. It is automatic; it is built in. All you need to do is act on the opportunities that doing that situation brings to you.
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Life Opportunity Support Thing
It is not my democracy as a person; it is our democracy as a society.
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Democracy Persons Society
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
First of all, when you have a doctor who cut the leg to prevent the patient from the gangrene if you have to, we don’t call butcher ; you call him a doctor, and thank you for saving the lives.
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Cutting Doctors Legs
There’s a video about one of those women who they consider as rebel or fighter who worked with those terrorists and she said “they didn’t tell us how to use the chemical weapons” and one of those weapons exploded in one of the tunnels and killed twelve. That’s what she said.
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Rebel Tunnels Twelve
You should expect everything. Not necessarily through the government, the governments are not the only player in [Middle East] region.
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East Government Middle Player
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
The army is made of the people ; it cannot be made of robots.
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Army People Robots
As we see now the American officials, they say something in the morning and they do the opposite in the evening. So, you cannot judge those people according to what they say. You cannot take them at their words, to be frank.
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Morning Opposites People
Under Syrian law, a journalist is not allowed to report on military matters. This may be wrong or right, but that’s just the way it is.
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Law May Military
Something that many officials in the West don’t see or don’t realize or don’t acknowledge – and in the interest of the Russian people, because they have been facing terrorists for decades now.
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Acknowledge Decade Terrorist Interest Something
We are dealing with treachery and threats, which accompanied the establishment of Israel.
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Country Establishment Threat
Worry does not mean fear, but readiness for the confrontation.
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Confrontation Mean Worry
They need money from abroad, they need moral support and political support from abroad. They don’t have any grassroots, any incubator. So, when you stop the smuggling, we don’t have problems.
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Abroad Border Country Smuggle Terrorist
Opposition doesn’t mean to take arms and kill people and destroy everything.
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Arms Mean People
Revolution should be Syrian, cannot be revolution imported from abroad.
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Abroad Imported Revolution Should
At the end, I said [chemical weapons] is something not to be discussed with anyone.
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Chemicals Ends Weapons
You cannot have democracy without the institutions. You cannot have a democracy that is built on the moods of self-interested people.
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Democracy People Self
I don’t want to talk about methods of killing. But what is the difference between a bomb worn on the body and one dropped from an airplane? Both of them kill people.
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Airplane Differences People
Before the 11th of September, in my discussions with many officials of the United States, some of them are Congressmen, I used to say that “don’t deal with terrorists as playing games.” It’s a different story. You’re going to pay the price if you’re not wise in dealing with terrorists.
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Games Pay Playing Price Wise
You have different parties, different factions, you have different ideologies ; you have everything in Middle East region now.
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Different East Middle Party
Without the public support, we cannot withstand two years and a half. Look at the other countries, look what happened in Libya, in Tunisia and in Egypt.
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Country Half Look Year

For 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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For 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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