We are fully free, not partially, fully free, in everything related to the future of Syria.
BASHAR AL-ASSADIf 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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Think of the war against terrorism. In my view, Washington’s approach can be compared to a doctor constantly banging away at a tumor instead of removing it surgically.
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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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From the first day I took the decision as President to defend my country.
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[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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In the United States, they always talk about subtitles, about chapters in a book without taking the main title of the book. They talk about a subtitle in a chapter and if you ask them about the headline, the main title, they say they do not know.
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We didn’t say that 80% [of terrorists], for example, or the majority or the vast majority, are foreigners. We said the vast majority are Al-Qaeda or Al-Qaeda offshoot organizations in this region.
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Syria is geographically and politically in the middle of the Middle East. That is why we are in contact with most of the problems forever, let us say, whether directly or indirectly.
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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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I am Syrian, I was made in Syria, I have to live in Syria and die in Syria.
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It is natural that we should always expect an Israeli attack, even when it does not threaten.
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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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Worry does not mean fear, but readiness for the confrontation.
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Since its very inception, Israel has been a threat.
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The armament of the government is legal armament. Any other armament is not legal.
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The external support can never substitute internal support, the example that we have to look at very well is Egypt and Tunisia ; they have all the support from the West and from the Gulf and from most of the countries of the world.
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