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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Opposition is different from terrorism. Opposition is a political movement.
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Israeli interests are not necessarily in harmony with the American interests.
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We don’t say that we don’t have it, we’re still secular in Syria, but with the time, this secularism will be eroded.
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The Russians always base their policies on values, and these values are the sovereignty of other countries, the international law, respecting other people, other cultures, so they don’t interfere in whatever is related to the future of Syria or the Syrian people.
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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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That the rebels or the terrorists used the chemical weapons in northern Aleppo five months ago [in 2013].
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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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Syria is geographically and politically in the middle of the Middle East.
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You said treaties, and a Russian official said ; we have not agreement… contracts, that we have to fulfill, and those contracts are like any country ; you buy armaments, you buy anything you want.
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At the end, killing is killing. Massacring is massacring.
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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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The Israeli lobby has clout in the U.S., which means that re-arranging the region and controlling its resources one way or another, will serve Israel through its control over the American administration.
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The problem with the West is that they start with political reform going towards democracy.
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I think the Congress is elected by people, it represents the people, and works for their interest. The first question that they should ask themselves : what do wars give America, since Vietnam till now ? Nothing. No political gain, no economic gain, no good reputation.
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Look at the results of regime change in Iraq. You can’t possibly claim that it was successful.
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