Bashar al-Assad Quotes

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• As soon as the legitimate Lebanese government is convinced that the conditions have ripened and that Lebanon is able to maintain stability on its own...…
• It should be known that Israel is based on treachery.
• Armies are not only for offensives.
• But the issue has to do with land, which is our land.
• America is interested in re-arranging the region as it sees fit.
• Despite the ethnic diversity within each nation, the social fabric of the region by and large is one.
• No doubt that the U.S. is a super-power capable of conquering a relatively small country, but is it able to control it?
• When our interests matched, the Americans have been good to us, and when the interests differed, they wanted us to mold ourselves to them, which…
• Israel does not care about the international public opinion.
• It is even more so when it comes to Iraq, which is a large Arab country with scientific, material, and human resources and is able…
• 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…
• The problem is not the occupation, but how people deal with it.
• Israeli interests are not necessarily in harmony with the American interests.
• Hizbullah is not a militia.
• Syria is geographically and politically in the middle of the Middle East.
• The captain doesn't think about death, or life, he thinks about saving his ship,
• Israel ranks her priorities in the following way: security, land, and water.
• I am not a puppet. I was not made by the West to go to the West or to any other country.
• You cannot reform your society or institution without opening your mind.
• We have more difficult circumstances than most of the Arab countries but in spite of that Syria is stable. Why? Because you have to be…

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