Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad
Light of the Alawites...
has lashed out at the Arab League
...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing...
and its decision to hand Syria's seat to the opposition, saying the body "lacks legitimacy," according to comments published on Thursday.
"The Arab League lacks legitimacy. It's a League that represents the Arab states, not the Arab people, so it can't grant or retract legitimacy," Assad said in extracts from an interview with Turkish media published on the presidency's Facebook page.
The Arab League last month granted the opposition rebel Syrian National Coalition grouping Syria's seat at the beginning during a session in Qatar attended by key rebel official and former Coalition chief Ahmed Moaz al-Khatib.
"Real legitimacy is not accorded by organizations or foreign officials or other country... legitimacy is that which is granted by the people," Assad said.
"All these theatrics have no value in our eyes," he added.