Excerpt one:
"[..]If Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak is toppled, Israel will lose one of its very few friends in a hostile neighbourhood and U.S. President Barack Obama will bear a large share of the blame [..]" (source)
Translation: Leave Mubarak alone as he is keeping us safe we don't really care about anybody or anything else :P
Translation: Leave Mubarak alone as he is keeping us safe we don't really care about anybody or anything else :P
Excerpt two:
"[..]WSJ: And do you think that the West or the US will have less influence or less inability to dictate because of these changes?
President Assad: This is the first time to hear the word 'dictate' from the West because we are called 'dictators,' and a 'dictator' should dictate. [...] (source )
Wall Street Journal not beating around the bush at all :P