HAFEZ AL-ASSAD

(Hafez al-Assad)


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Pave the Arab roads with the skulls of the Jews.
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Fellow Peasants: No hand will after this day be above your hand… You are the producers. Yours is the power.
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Despite his speeches like this one, he was a ruthless dictator who then before his death in 2000 handed power to his son.

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Strike the enemy's settlements, turn them into dust, pave the Arab roads with the skulls of Jews.
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Negotiations can create conditions that can lead to solutions.
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Force in today's world, just as in the past, is what determines rights.
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It is important to gain respect rather than sympathy.
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How could we live without the sword?
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It was high time … [for Syria] to take the initiative in destroying the Zionist presence in the Arab homeland.
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Just before the Six Day War. Syria did take the initiative and provoked the war which the Arabs lost badly. Ironically, Egypt and Jordan, pushed into the war by Syria, lost the most in manpower and territory.

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Hafez Al-Assad
  • Born: October 6, 1930
  • Died: June 10, 2000
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Biography

Hafez al-Assad was a Syrian politician who served as President of Syria from 1971 to 2000. He was also Prime Minister of Syria from 1970 to 1971, as well as regional secretary of the regional command of the Syrian regional branch of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party and secretary general of the National Command of the Ba'ath Party from 1970 to 2000.