An Original

Lee Smith sent me this:-

"We as the original people and inhabitants of this region, want peace. And when I said original inhabitants, I don't mean those who were imported from abroad. Only the original ones, meaning those who have lived here throughout history."

That was Basher Assad.

The original:-

.ونحن كشعوب وسكان أصليين لهذه المنطقة نريد السلام.. وعندما أقول سكانا أصليين لا اقصد ابدا المستوردين من الخارج فقط الأصليين يعني الذين يعيشون هنا عبر التاريخ.

More:-

...President al-Assad added, "My Brother Prime Minister Erdogan has said in one of his speeches recently that Jerusalem is the same as Istanbul and what happens in the Palestinian territories happens on Turkish lands, and I say to him that the Arab blood and the Turkish blood are the same. This is not new. This is a historical issue and today Turkey stands by Gaza, and the Ottoman Turkey a little more than one hundred years ago rejected to give Palestine to the Jews. This is well known, so we are talking about one blood throughout history"...

...President al-Assad said "Israel is addicted to biased mediations. Addiction to biased mediations is similar to drug addiction. When we prevent drugs from reaching an addict, he/she will pass through a state of rampage and could do anything." He added that the Turkish fair mediation is similar to preventing the drug from reaching to this addict...

..."The important thing is to know that what has happened was not a mere crime, but was a part of the nature of Israel which was founded as a state on the blood of the Palestinians… What has happened was not the first time and it was not an accident that happens for the first time… This act has begun a century ago and it is still happening… What has happened was not a mere mistake perpetrated by soldiers or a mistake in a decision adopted by the Israeli government or what is called the inner cabinet of the Israeli government.. It is a state that reflects an instinct existed in Israel and has built up throughout history,"...

...This is a historical issue and today Turkey stands by Gaza, and the Ottoman Turkey a little more than one hundred years ago rejected to give Palestine to the Jews. This is well known, so we are talking about one blood throughout history"...

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