The logical thing is to implement the Arab Defense Agreement.
Israel does not care about the international public opinion.
No doubt that the U.S. is a super-power capable of conquering a relatively small country, but is it able to control it?
America is interested in re-arranging the region as it sees fit.
Since its very inception, Israel has been a threat.
We, in Syria, our point of view stems from our experience.
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 circumstance just because Israel did not act on 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.
But the issue has to do with land, which is our land.
The U.S. and Britain are incapable of controlling all of Iraq.
None of us and none of the Arabs trust Israel.
The problem is not the occupation, but how people deal with it.
Israel ranks her priorities in the following way: security, land, and water.
As far as we are concerned, we Syria have not changed.
The problem with the West is that they start with political reform going towards democracy. If you want to go towards democracy, the first thing is to involve the people in decision making, not to make it.
I am Syrian, I was made in Syria, I have to live in Syria and die in Syria.
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 we refused.
Lebanon was under Israeli occupation, up to its capital, but we did not consider that a disaster. Why? Because it was very clear that there are ways to resist.
Despite the ethnic diversity within each nation, the social fabric of the region by and large is one.
When Lebanon started its resistance it was a small and divided country.
Israeli interests are not necessarily in harmony with the American interests.
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