Hafez al-Assad
President of Syria from 1971 to 2000 · Politicians · Lived 1930 to 2000 · aged 69
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Something wrong?Syrian president for three decades who ruled through coups, purges, and the machinery of a police state - remembered most for the Hama massacre and for engineering a family dynasty that held power until 2024.
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A propaganda reprint of Hafez al-Assad's speech of October 6, 1973, regarding the outbreak of the Yom Kippur War, produced and published in 1977
Abdullah Al-Ahmad with President Hafez Al-Assad
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An image in a Syrian newspaper showing Syrian President and Ba'ath Party Regional Command leader Hafez al-Assad with Lebanese Ba'ath Party martyrs
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, Our forces are now entirely ready not only to repulse the aggression, but to initiate the act of liberation itself, and to explode the Zionist presence in the Arab homeland.
Why should we not boycott the Soviet Union and its supporters inside the country? If we do so, we can force them to review their stand.
Strike the enemy’s settlements, turn them into dust, pave the Arab roads with the skulls of Jews.
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Hafez al-Assad rose through the Syrian Air Force and helped bring the Ba'ath Party to power in a 1963 coup. He participated in a second coup in 1966, becoming defense minister, then staged a third in 1970 to seize the presidency for himself. He pivoted Syria's foreign policy toward the Soviet Union while painting himself as defender of Palestinians, fought Israel in the October War of 1973, and intervened in Lebanon starting in 1976. To maintain absolute control he built a cult of personality and crushed an Islamist uprising in a series of crackdowns that culminated in the Hama massacre, which destroyed two thirds of that city. After his brother Rifaat's failed power grab and his eldest son Bassel's death in a 1994 car crash, Assad groomed his younger son Bashar - then a medical student with no political experience - to inherit the presidency. He died on June 10, 2000, and Bashar ruled until his overthrow in December 2024.
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