There are groups that are frustrated and want to frustrate others. We must always have a far-sighted view on national issues.
President al-Assad continued: Where does this point matter to us? We are interested in what is called the Fifth Column. The Fifth Column, you know, is basically a story that I think happened in Spain. There were four military columns, and they said to the commander, how are you going to enter? He said there is a fifth column working with him from the inside. The fifth column in our concepts now is not necessarily agents and traitors, no, there are groups that are frustrated and they are frustrated because they want to frustrate others, because when they frustrate others they feel like they are in a natural place, there is a trivial person who wants to see others as trivial, because he feels that he is in his natural place, in the natural environment. There is a coward, there is a stakeholder who wants to believe that all people think like him, so he markets his way of telling, these people. When they measure things, the comparisons that I made, I didn't ask how many captives versus how many captives? How many prisoners for how many martyrs, or how many tanks have we destroyed versus how many buildings have we lost? Matters in issues, in countries, and among peoples are not measured in this way. It is not an exchange for us to calculate profit and loss.
Here we must be careful of the way our issues are discussed, Most of them may be out of good intentions, but they are very dangerous, and this is the same point I made a while ago, when they say why did Syria not stand in certain positions with Western countries? We go back to the example of Iraq, we knew perfectly well that there was an effort before the war in 2002 for the sectarian division of Iraq, and this sectarian division meant that it would move to Syria, and we fully noticed that the discourse at the beginning of the war was absolutely sectarian, and it was supposed, if it were not for the social awareness in Syria, to blow up the country within weeks, and perhaps within months, so we must always have a far-sighted vision that we present, and comparisons that start from the way we talk about national issues, not from the issue of material calculations that have begun to dominate the existing dialogue. Here is the difference between political discourse, professional political discourse, and amateur speech. An amateur can establish a political position through digital calculations. The same thing is with the economy, there are those who say that the economy before the war had a growth rate of 7 percent, and the country was rising like a rocket, but who said that the seven percent was leading to comprehensive development? This is not true. When I asked about the economic situation before the war, I say no, the economic situation was not as good as some assume, good numbers but the reality was not good, and perhaps this contributed to the establishment of the state of war, which the West exploited, as it saw it. Perhaps most of us did not see this reality, so we must be attentive to these superficial discourses and confront them with a convincing and logical discourse based on a method of political and national measurement at the same time.
All of the above gives the answer about profit and loss, and confirms that the Zionist entity is much weaker than most people in the Arab or Islamic world or the Middle East, or perhaps in the world as a whole, imagine. It is weak because it carries internal factors of death, but it lives on with Arab oxygen, so many things that many Arabs do not understand. Unfortunately, today we see a plan - and this is also the talk of the fifth column in the issue of accounts - the Israeli plan regarding the displacement of Palestinians from the Gaza Strip towards Jordan, the alternative homeland. What is the lifespan of the alternative homeland? Declared, I think for more than five decades, and undeclared since the inception of Israel, the Palestinians have been displaced to another place, the closest is Jordan, and the same thing with the displacement of the population of Gaza towards Sinai or towards Egypt. Have all Arab tactics changed the reality of this project? Isn't it presented in the same way today? Displacement, isn't the war in Gaza and the West Bank for displacement? We ask the fifth column who was asking us in different areas, why don't we go here and not go there? What did the Arab marches offer to the Arab people, including presidents or kings? It doesn't matter the position, heads of state who have walked America for decades, did that intercede for them with America? Is there a model that says that going along at the expense of national principles will protect the homeland? If the logic of this column is correct, I will become part of the fifth column, and we will all become part of the fifth column in order to achieve the national interest, but all the facts have proven the opposite. Today it became clear that the plan is continuing without stopping. Israel will not stop its plan for Greater Israel, and it will not intercede for anyone who opened with Israel that he will be outside this plan, starting from nearby countries, to farther countries. And threats, that the Arab countries are making, rejection, denunciation and red lines, and that what is happening is a declaration of war, and a declaration of... that will not change anything. The plan is proceeding and will include everyone.
note to self : stop cutting and pasting as you go! So huge points to you for making sense of it 
