Hafez al-Assad
Former President of SyriaWikipedia
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Oct 25, 2026
Pete QuiñonesHOST
I'm just obsessed with Syria, have been for a while now.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
I got kicked off a podcast once for saying that Assad was probably one of the best leaders in the world right now.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
And when you look at the post-Nuremberg order, these are two countries that you're supposed to hate.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
So I have great interest in them, and You have information on their relations since this order kicked off, and I want to hear about that.
45 MINS LATER
Thomas777GUEST
This is demonstrative of how heavily the Soviet Union and Russia was and is politically invested in Arab fortunes and specifically Syrian ones.
Thomas777GUEST
But it's also, like, you think the Israelis have, like, good feelings towards Russia? I mean, really? I mean, it's, you know, it's preposterous.
Thomas777GUEST
Closer to the main subject at hand, what Hafez Assad was doing during this period, Hafez Assad himself was a MiG driver.
Thomas777GUEST
He was a fighter pilot.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
And I'm just obsessed with Syria, have been for a while now.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
I got kicked off a podcast once for saying that Assad was probably one of the best leaders in the world right now.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
And when you look at the post-Nuremberg order, these are two countries that you're supposed to hate.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
So I have great interest in them, and...
39 MINS LATER
ThomasGUEST
This is demonstrative of how heavily the Soviet Union and Russia was and is politically invested in Arab fortunes, and specifically Syrian ones.
ThomasGUEST
But it's also, like, you think the Israelis have, like, good feelings towards Russia? I mean, really? I mean, it's, um, you know, it's preposterous.
ThomasGUEST
Um, closer to, um, this, the main subject at hand, what, uh, Hafez Assad was doing during this period, Hafez Assad himself was a MiG driver.
ThomasGUEST
He was a fighter pilot.
Asrar RashidGUEST
Even, unfortunately, Imran Khan, when he went to Pakistan, it was very unfortunate for him to go to the grave of Ataturk.
Asrar RashidGUEST
Hafiz al-Assad, tyrant.
Asrar RashidGUEST
If someone did a ritual at the grave of Hafiz al-Assad, how would we feel? We would be enraged.
Asrar RashidGUEST
Ataturk, how bad was he? Very bad, the worst.
Asrar RashidGUEST
The worst.
Dan BurmawiGUEST
Isaac Rabin, according to the testimony of Muhammad Hussein Mubarak, the former Egyptian president... offered to withdraw from the Golan Heights in exchange for peace.
Dan BurmawiGUEST
And Hussein Mubarak told Hafez al-Assad.
Dan BurmawiGUEST
And Hafez al-Assad said, no, I'm not going to do that.
Dan BurmawiGUEST
And a few months later, Isaac Rabin was assassinated.
Dan BurmawiGUEST
And the deal fell.
Dan BurmawiGUEST
But Hafez al-Assad said, no.
Dan BurmawiGUEST
So Israel wants peace.
Dan BurmawiGUEST
You don't believe that.
Josef OlmertGUEST
It was supposed to be ten thirty in the morning.
Josef OlmertGUEST
They did not show up because Hafez Assad, in a typical way, played another game about this, about that detail, and so James Baker, really, Secretary of State at that time, interesting fellow, sent him a very strict warning.
Josef OlmertGUEST
So they came at ten thirty PM, in the evening, and the meeting ending at about three-something AM.
Josef OlmertGUEST
You can imagine.
Matthew Raphael JohnsonGUEST
Park in South Korea.
Matthew Raphael JohnsonGUEST
Hafez al-Assad in Syria, who broke the back of the landed oligarchy.
Matthew Raphael JohnsonGUEST
They're the ones.
Matthew Raphael JohnsonGUEST
They're national socialists.
Matthew Raphael JohnsonGUEST
Park in South Korea.
Matthew Raphael JohnsonGUEST
Hafez al-Assad in Syria, who broke the back of the landed oligarchy.
Matthew Raphael JohnsonGUEST
They're the ones.
Matthew Raphael JohnsonGUEST
They're national socialists.
speaker_3NARRATOR
Anwar Sadat had become Egypt's president after Gamal Abdel Nasser died in 1970.
speaker_3NARRATOR
In October 1973, Sadat and Syrian President Hafez al-Assad launched a surprise attack on Israel.
speaker_3NARRATOR
Egyptian troops crossed the Suez Canal and broke through Israeli defenses before the war turned into a costly stalemate under superpower pressure.
speaker_3NARRATOR
Militarily, Egypt did not recover all the Sinai Peninsula, which Israel had captured in 1967.
Sam DenbyNARRATOR
Such a presence and relationship has benefited both sides.
Sam DenbyNARRATOR
In 2000, with the death of Hafez al-Assad and subsequent question of who the next Syrian president would be, Syrian officials expressed hope that mediation through Pope John Paul II would be possible.
Sam DenbyNARRATOR
And a decade later, seen as unbiased and not politically motivated, the Pope and the Holy See, not the UN, were again viewed by Muslim leaders as some of the last viable peace brokers once the Syrian civil war erupted.
Sam DenbyNARRATOR
Beyond a broad moral obligation to pursue peace, such good moral standing in Middle Eastern, African, and Muslim majority countries also allows the Holy See to keep tabs on and advocate for the rights of Christian minority populations within such countries too.
Mahmoud KhalilSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
This is what the story that about the march of return that Palestinians decided from the from the, you know, refugee countries from Lebanon, Syria and Jordan to walk to the borders.
Mahmoud KhalilSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And, you know, my father also lived in, you know, all his life in Syria under Hafez Assad, Bashar Assad.
Mahmoud KhalilSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And he had that fear about not engaging, fearing disappearance, fearing that, you know, he would be targeted if he would speak out.
Mahmoud KhalilSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And to me at that young age, I mean, to me it's just like felt I have to do something.
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