The fact that there are people who criticize me doesn't mean that people hate me.

The problem is not the occupation, but how people deal with it.

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.

First of all, when you have a doctor who cut the leg to prevent the patient from the gangrene if you have to, we don't call butcher ; you call him a doctor, and thank you for saving the lives.

Whenever you have a war, the civilians and the innocents will pay the price. That's in any war, any war is a bad war.

When you have terrorism, you have a war. When you have a war, you always have innocent lives that could be the victim of any war, so, we don't have to discuss what the image in the west before discussing the image in Syria. That's the question.

We're talking about the responsibility, my responsibility according to the Syrian constitution that said we have to defend ourselves.