[ Jihadists] are going to be against you sooner or later.
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When you talk about cooperation, it means cooperation between two legal governments, not cooperation between foreign government and any faction within Syria.
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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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When you have terrorists, you don’t throw at them balloons or you don’t use rubber sticks, for example. You have to use armaments.
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I am Syrian, I was made in Syria, I have to live in Syria and die in Syria.
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This is the Middle East, where every week you have something new; so whatever you talk about this week will not be valuable next week.
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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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We are dealing with treachery and threats, which accompanied the establishment of Israel.
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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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At the end, I said [chemical weapons] is something not to be discussed with anyone.
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[The Jews] tried to kill the principles of all religions with the same mentality in which they betrayed Jesus Christ and the same way they tried to betray and kill the Prophet Muhammad.
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If it’s not a national army, it cannot have the support, and if it doesn’t have the public support of every sect, it cannot do its job and advance recently. It cannot. The army of the family doesn’t make national war.
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I don’t believe in war, I believe in the principle of deterrence.
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Your policy should be a mixture between your interests and how you reach your ends, but based on values. It cannot be only the end justifies the means, because for the criminals, ends justify the means, for thieves, for every illegal and immoral action, the end justifies the means.
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The United States’ credibility is at an all-time low. So, this war is against the interest of the Untied States.
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For Turkey, they think that if the Muslim Brotherhood take over the rest of the region, they will be very comfortable, they will be very happy, they will make sure that their political future is guaranteed.
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