In the initiative that we issued at the beginning of year 2013 we said every party with no exceptions as long as they give up their armaments.
BASHAR AL-ASSADUnder 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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The only one who can fight for these values like democracy and freedoms are the people of any country or any society, not the foreigners.
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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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And let’s say in brief they live the Taliban style in Afghanistan, completely the same style.
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We cannot use jihadists because it’s like shooting yourself in the foot.
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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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Any external support, if you want to call it support, let’s use this world, is… how to say… it’s going to be additional, but it’s not the base to depend on more than the Syrian support.
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That’s the problem with the American position; they think that they are the police of the world.
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Actually, he gave false evidence [of chemical weapons]. In this case,[John] Kerry didn’t even present any evidence. He talked “we have evidence” and he didn’t present anything. Not yet, nothing so far ; not a single shred of evidence.
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They delayed it till just a few days before al-Ghouta when they sent those team, and the team itself said in its report that he did everything as he wanted. There was not a single obstacle.
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Every country has criminals who have to be fought. They can exist anywhere, including the government or the army – or outside the government and army.
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Circumstances don’t matter, only my state of being matters. What state of being are you choosing?
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This is where we can discuss the evidence [of the chemical weapons ], but he doesn’t have it. He didn’t present it because he doesn’t have it, Kerry doesn’t have it. No one in your administration has it. If they had it, they would have presented it to you as media from the first day.
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We believe that Lebanon has been the first real experience for all the Arabs.
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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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Syria is geographically and politically in the middle of the Middle East.
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