Such use of this report will have big, serious repercussions on the already tense situation which our region goes through, at a time we are more in need to have objective and constructive positions that would help the countries of the region to achieve stability, |
Syria had nothing to do with this murder, absolutely nothing. |
Syria is innocent in the absolute sense, ... Syria is not involved at the government level or at the individual level. The problem is merely a political one in the context of events. |
The Israeli factor was suspiciously present in all the events witnessed by the region, and the developments proved that Israel was the most prominent and the major benefactor from these events, |
The man who has become president is the same man who was a doctor and an officer and first and foremost is the citizen. |
The ultimate objective of all this is the destruction of Arab identity; for the enemies of the Arab nation are opposed to our possessing any identity or upholding any creed that could protect our existence and cohesion, guide our vision and direction, or on which we can rely in our steadfastness, |
there will be Arab popular resistance anyway and this has begun. |
This (assassination) is against our principles and my principles, and I would never do such a thing in my life, ... What do we achieve? I think what happened targeted Syria. |
We are longing for the return of the Golan, ... However long it takes, this land is ours, and it will return to us in full. We are not ready to pay the price of the inability of Israeli governments to take a decision for peace. |
We cannot accept what we see on our television every day of the bombing of innocent civilians. There are hundreds now every day. |
We have an interest in the investigation, because we are convinced that we will be given a clean slate -- if the results are not falsified for political reasons, ... Syria had nothing to do with this murder, absolutely nothing. |
We have the urge to reach a state of peace, but we have no urge to compromise an inch of our territory nor do we accept our sovereignty to be impinged on, |
We must face this situation with great awareness, responsibility and defiance. |
We will play their game ... stop when Syria is going to be harmed. |
While we are after peace, Israel is after war, |