Since its very inception, Israel has been a threat.

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

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

Israel does not care about the international public opinion.

Hamas will not disappear. Hamas will not raise the white flag. Hamas has the trust of the people, and anyone who wishes to destroy it must destroy an entire people.

We learned that lesson very well, especially in the eighties, that terrorists cannot be used as a political card, you cannot put it in your pocket, because it's like a scorpion; it will bite you someday.

The first thing you have to learn is how to conduct dialogue and how to make it productive.