None of us and none of the Arabs trust Israel.

Anyone who's not military knows this fact. Why do you use chemical weapons while you're advancing ?

The most important part of [Russian] support is the aerial support, which is very essential, they have very strong firepower, and at the same time they are the main supply of our army for more than sixty years, so our army depends on the Russian support in different military domains.

For the West, they wanted to undermine the Syrian positions. For the petrodollar countries like Saudi Arabia, they're thinking undermining Syria will undermine Iran on sectarian basis.

Without the public support, we cannot withstand two years and a half. Look at the other countries, look what happened in Libya, in Tunisia and in Egypt.

[Hezbollah forces] cannot exist all over Syria anyway, for many reasons, but they exist on the borders.

Israel does not care about the international public opinion.