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.
BASHAR AL-ASSADWhen you talk about Al-Qaeda it doesn’t matter if he’s Syrian or American or from Europe or from Asia or Africa.
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[Hezbollah forces] cannot exist all over Syria anyway, for many reasons, but they exist on the borders.
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Israel does not care about the international public opinion.
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At the end, killing is killing. Massacring is massacring.
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Terrorism is a state of mind that on the one hand has to do with ignorance and, on the other hand, can be attributed to a feeling of desperation over the political situation, which at some point takes the form of revenge.
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Any strike will be as direct support to Al-Qaeda offshoot that’s called Jabhat al-Nusra and the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria. You’re right about this. It’s going to be direct support.
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We’re talking about one region, bigger regions, not only about Syria. This interlinked region, this intermingled, interlocked, whatever you want to call it ; if you strike somewhere, you have to expect the repercussions somewhere else in different forms in ways you don’t expect.
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Revolution should be Syrian, cannot be revolution imported from abroad.
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We believe that Lebanon has been the first real experience for all the Arabs.
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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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If you don’t win and the terrorists win, Syria wouldn’t exist anymore.
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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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The logical thing is to implement the Arab Defense Agreement.
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That’s all before the crisis. We always have this kind of cooperation with Iran [Supplies, weaponry].
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[Enemies of Syria] are the enemies of the people and the enemies of God. And the enemies of God will go to hell.
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You should expect everything. Not necessarily through the government, the governments are not the only player in [Middle East] region.
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