TODAY’S MESOP QUOTATIONS: PRESSURE ON REBELS
TALKING WITH ASSAD / PRESSURE ON THE REBELS
“Assad doesn’t have a future, he knows this,” a senior Russian official said. “But he is not a fool. He will not just go voluntarily. All sides must sit down and negotiate a way out of this. That means we talk to Assad but those who back the rebels must put pressure on them.”
THE TRUE VOICE OF A REAL DIALOGUE PARTNER
Pro-Assad Syrian Commentator Taleb Ibrahim Calls Opponent ‘Ape’ and Says: ‘My
Shoe and My Urine Are More Dignified than You’
Following are excerpts from a debate between Syrian commentator Taleb Ibrahim and Lebanese MP Khaled Al-Dhaher, which aired on Al-Jadeed/New TV and posted on the Internet on December 16, 2012: