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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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Israel has WMD, and it has to sign [chemical warfare agreement], and Israel is occupying our land, so that’s we talked about the Middle East, not Syria, not Israel ; it should be comprehensive.
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Agreement Country Occupy
Let’s presume that a country or army has this weapon ; this kind of armaments cannot be used by infantry for example or by anyone. This kind of armament should be used by specialized units, so it cannot be in the hand of anyone.
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Army Country Hands
The army is making good advancement on daily basis against the terrorists. Of course, they still have the support of Turkey, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and some Western countries including the United States, but the only option that we have in that regard is to win.
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Army Country Winning
Hizbullah is not a militia.
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Country Militia People World
We’re not sure that if there’s chemical weapon used and who used it. We can’t talk about virtual things, we have to talk about facts.
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Chemicals Fact Weapons
I don’t believe in war, I believe in the principle of deterrence.
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Believe Principles War
Opposition doesn’t mean to take arms and kill people and destroy everything.
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Arms Mean People
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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Government Mean Two
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
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
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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Support Use World
[Hezbollah forces] cannot exist all over Syria anyway, for many reasons, but they exist on the borders.
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Borders Hezbollah Reason
We’re not in the area where the alleged chemical attack happened. I said alleged. We’re not sure that anything happened.
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Alleged Chemicals Happen Sure
It is difficult for anyone to tell you what is going to happen. [Middle East] is an area where everything is on the brink of explosion.
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Difficult East Explosions Middle
In the end a lie is a lie.
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Ends Lie Lying
We feel pain for every Syrian victim.
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Feels Pain Victim
In Aleppo we had the missile itself, and the material, and the sample from the sand, from the soil, and samples from the blood [of chemical weapons].
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Blood Soil Weapons
Many people do not understand the difference between peace and a peace treaty. If you want to have real peace with normal relations between people, you need to have comprehensive peace.
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Differences People Real
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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Army Country Government
Opposition is different from terrorism. Opposition is a political movement.
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Different Movement Political
Russia is very important, Iran is very important, Hezbollah is very important. All of them are important. Each one made important achievements against the terrorists in Syria, so it’s difficult to say who is more important than the other.
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Achievement Country Hope Important
Freedom and democracy are nothing but instruments, just like stability. The goal is called progress and growth. Anyone who puts freedom ahead of stability is hurting growth.
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Goal Growth Hurt
[United States] are sovereign country, they are an independent country, but this is their limit; they don’t have to interfere in any other country.
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Country Independent Years
It would be a mistake to link anything that Israel does to a certain circumstance. And it is a mistake to feel comfortable in any circumstance just because Israel did not act on it.
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Circumstances Comfortable Country Mistake
It is natural that we should always expect an Israeli attack, even when it does not threaten.
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Doe Hair Natural
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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Awareness Forests Tree
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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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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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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