Israel Quotes by Bashar al-Assad

Since its very inception, Israel has been a threat.

— Bashar al-Assad

Hizbullah is not a militia.

— Bashar al-Assad

It should be known that Israel is based on treachery.

— Bashar al-Assad

None of us and none of the Arabs trust Israel.

— Bashar al-Assad

We cannot use jihadists because it's like shooting yourself in the foot.

— Bashar al-Assad

Look at the results of regime change in Iraq. You can't possibly claim that it was successful.

— Bashar al-Assad

That's all before the crisis. We always have this kind of cooperation with Iran [Supplies, weaponry].

— Bashar al-Assad

The logical thing is to implement the Arab Defense Agreement.

— Bashar al-Assad

I believe that the United States is not genuine regarding having a cessation of violence in Syria.

— Bashar al-Assad

Using terrorism or jihadists or extremists for any political agenda is immoral.

— Bashar al-Assad

If you want to kill the Syrian people, who's going to support us as a government, as officials? No one.

— Bashar al-Assad

Israeli interests are not necessarily in harmony with the American interests.

— Bashar al-Assad

We learned that lesson very well, especially in the eighties, that terrorists cannot be used as a political card, you cannot put…

— Bashar al-Assad

Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he is willing…

— Bashar al-Assad

Any external support, if you want to call it support, let's use this world, is... how to say... it's going to be…

— Bashar al-Assad

We are ready to cooperate in any way to achieve stability in Syria, of course taking into consideration the interest of the…

— Bashar al-Assad

In Aleppo we had the missile itself, and the material, and the sample from the sand, from the soil, and samples from…

— Bashar al-Assad

You in Lebanon, your power is no match to Israel. Israel, militarily, is more powerful than you and maybe it is more…

— Bashar al-Assad

You have different parties, different factions, you have different ideologies ; you have everything in Middle East region now.

— Bashar al-Assad

It's not religious war, but Al-Qaeda always use religions, Islam - actually, as a pretext and as a cover and as a…

— Bashar al-Assad

It's very simple ; once the Western countries stop supporting those terrorists and making pressure on their puppet countries and client states…

— Bashar al-Assad

You have to look at the reality in Syria. Whenever we liberate any city or village from the terrorists, the civilians will…

— Bashar al-Assad

Since the beginning of the crisis, since the terrorists started to control some areas within Syria, the majority of the Syrian civilians…

— Bashar al-Assad

The hope for an American is different from the hope of a Syrian. For me, I should be the hope of the…

— Bashar al-Assad

From the first day I took the decision as President to defend my country. So, who killed ? That's another question. Actually,…

— Bashar al-Assad

At the very beginning, it was fully political. When you have these terrorists, the first part of the same plan which is…

— Bashar al-Assad

The army is making good advancement on daily basis against the terrorists. Of course, they still have the support of Turkey, Qatar,…

— Bashar al-Assad

According to what we've been seeing recently in the area where the terrorists control, where they ban people from going to schools,…

— Bashar al-Assad

From our side, from our part as government, we have two missions: the first one is to fight those terrorists to liberate…

— Bashar al-Assad

We wouldn't have withstood for two years and a half. We would have disintegration of the army, disintegration of the whole institution…

— Bashar al-Assad

We are dealing with treachery and threats, which accompanied the establishment of Israel.

— Bashar al-Assad

Those who arrived on America's tanks are not credible in Iraq.

— Bashar al-Assad

If there is any change regarding that hope, we should ask the Syrian people, not anyone else in the world.

— Bashar al-Assad

Iran doesn't have any soldier in Syria, so how could Iran help me ?

— Bashar al-Assad

[Peace in Syria] is [António Guterres] priority, and of course it's our priority, that's self-evident.

— Bashar al-Assad

The U.S. and Britain are incapable of controlling all of Iraq.

— Bashar al-Assad

[ Jihadists] are going to be against you sooner or later.

— Bashar al-Assad

Nobody knows [who they are] because when [terrorists] are dead and they are killed, they don't have any ID.

— Bashar al-Assad

It is natural that we should always expect an Israeli attack, even when it does not threaten.

— Bashar al-Assad

When Lebanon started its resistance it was a small and divided country.

— Bashar al-Assad