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LIBYA: AL-QADHDHAFI BANQUET SPEECH
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LD0708201788 TRIPOLI DOMESTIC SERVICE IN ARABIC 1255 GMT 7 AUG
[SPEECH BY LIBYAN LEADER MU'AMMAR AL-QADHDHAFI AT A BANQUET IN
HONOR OF VISITING TUNISIAN PRESIDENT ZINE EL ABIDINE BEN ALI AT BAB
AL-'AZIZIYYAH ON 6 AUGUST -- RECORDED]
[TEXT] GENTLEMEN, PERMIT ME WARMLY AND SINCERELY TO WELCOME MY
DEAR BROTHER PRESIDENT ZINE EL ABIDINE BEN ALL, PRESIDENT OF THE
REPUBLIC OF TUNISIA. I ALSO WELCOME THE HIGH-LEVEL DELEGATION
ACCOMPANYING HIM. IN WELCOMING HIM, WE WELCOME OUR ARAB PEOPLE IN
TUNISIA. SINCE HIS ARRIVAL TODAY TO HIS HOMELAND, HIS HOME AND THE
HOME OF THE KINFOLK, HIS BROTHERS IN LIBYA HAVE BEEN EXPRESSING THIS
SINCERE AND WARM WELCOME, SPONTANEOUSLY, FROM THE HEART.
THE BROTHER PRESIDENT ZINE EL ABIDINE BEN ALI DESERVES THE TYPE
OF WELCOME SHOWN TO HIM TODAY BY THE ARAB PEOPLE IN LIBYA. THE
LIBYAN PEOPLE RARELY TAKE TO THE STREETS TO WELCOME HEADS OF STATE,
BUT TODAY THEY ARE WELCOMING NOT A TRADITIONAL HEAD OF STATE; THEY
ARE WELCOMING ONE OF THE HEROES OF THE ARAB NATION, THE HERO OF 7
NOVEMBER, THE SAVIOR OF THE ARAB PEOPLE IN TUNISIA, THE ONE WHO ON 7
NOVEMBER REMOVED A BIG OBSTACLE FROM THE PATH OF ARAB UNITY,
LIBERATION, AND PROGRESS.
THE BROTHER PRESIDENT ZINE EL ABIDINE BEN ALI DESERVES
APPRECIATION, RESPECT, AND HONOR BEFITTING THE SAVIOR OF A PEOPLE, A
BRAVE MAN WHO FACED UP TO REGIONALISM, SUBSERVIENCE, AGENTRY,
REACTION, AND THE ROTTEN BACKWARDNESS THAT HE REMOVED WITH ALL
CONFIDENCE AND DARING. ON 7 NOVEMBER A NEW DAWN APPEARED OVER
TUNISIA, THE ARAB MAGHREB, AND THE ARAB HOMELAND. IT REINTRODUCED
THE RADIANCE OF THE RISING OF THE START OF NORTH AFRICA. AND, ON 7
NOVEMBER, THE ERA OF SUBSERVIENCE CAME TO AN END IN TUNISIA. IT WAS
ALSO THE END OF THE PERIOD OF STERILITY THAT HAD BURDENED TUNISIA,
NORTH AFRICA, AND A PRECIOUS PART OF THE ARAB HOMELAND. NOVEMBER
THE 7TH ALSO REMOVED THE PERIOD OF DERIDING PAN-ARAB VALUES, THE
PERIOD OF BELITTLING SACRED SACRIFICES OFFERED BY THIS NATION. THE
PRE-7 NOVEMBER ERA BELITTLED THE SCORES OF MARTYRS OFFERED BY THE
ARAB PEOPLE IN TUNISIA, THE BRAVE PEOPLE THAT RESISTED THE HEINOUS
FRENCH COLONIALISM; THE PEOPLE THAT OFFERED, AT THE ETERNAL BATTLE
OF BIZERTA, MORE THAN 1,000 MARTYRS BY STORMING THE FRENCH COLONIAL
BASE. AT THE TIME, AND WITH ALL CONTEMPT, THE FRENCH COLONIAL
GOVERNMENT DECIDED TO USE TUNISIA AS A BASE TO STRIKE AT ALGERIA,
STRIKE AT THE ALGERIAN REVOLUTION BEFORE ITS VICTORY.
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BUT THE SACRIFICES OF 1,000 MARTYRS GENEROUSLY OFFERED BY THE
TUNISIAN PEOPLE IN JUST A FEW HOURS MADE THE COLONIALISTS COME TO
THEIR SENSES. THEY SAW THAT THEY COULD NOT USE AN ARAB COUNTRY,
TUNISIA, TO STRIKE AT ANOTHER ARAB COUNTRY, ALGERIA. THESE
SACRIFICES WERE BELITTLED TERRIBLY. LITTLE REGARD WAS ACCORDED TO
THE TUNISIAN NATIONAL POTENTIALS AND PAN-ARAB POTENTIALS. A CRUDE
SYSTEM WAS IMPOSED, A SYSTEM OF DERISION AND TRIVIALITIES TO TARNISH
ANY SERIOUSNESS, TO CAST DOUBT ON THE ABILITIES OF THE TUNISIANS.
THERE WAS ENCROACHMENT ON TUNISIAN NATIONAL DIGNITY, ON PAN-ARAB
DIGNITY, TO THE POINT THAT COLONIALISTS BELIEVED THAT IT WAS
POSSIBLE TO PROLONG THE LIVES OF TRIVIAL TYPES IN ARAB LAND, AND
THAT A REVOLT AGAINST THESE TYPES WAS IMPOSSIBLE.
BUT 7 NOVEMBER DISAPPOINTED THE COLONIALISTS, PUT AN END TO THEIR
DREAMS AND TO THE ERA OF TRIVIALITY, DERISION, AND [WORD
INDISTINCT]. IT ALSO SHOWED THE WORLD THE REAL FACE OF ARAB AND
MUSLIM TUNISIA, UNIONIST TUNISIA. THE PRE-7 NOVEMBER ERA WORKED
HARD TO DISFIGURE THE REALITY OF ARAB, ISLAMIC TUNISIA. IT WANTED TO
TAKE IT DOWN TO THE LOWEST LEVEL OF SUBSERVIENCE AND REJECTION OF
PAN-ARABISM, ARAB UNITY, AND THE PALESTINIAN CAUSE. BUT WITH THE END
OF THIS NIGHTMARE, AND THE TOPPLING OF THE STATUE [BOURGUIBA --
FBIS], DARKNESS WAS LIFTED FROM THE LAND OF GREEN TUNISIA. TUNISIA
THEN APPEARED AS UNIONIST, PAN-ARABIST, REVOLUTIONARY.
THIS IS A SHINING POINT IN A PERIOD'OF PITCH DARKNESS EXPERIENCED
BY THE ARAB PEOPLE THESE DAYS. THIS SHINING POINT IS 7 NOVEMBER.
NOVEMBER THE 7TH TURNED THE ENMITY AND HOSTILITY IMPOSED ON THE ARAB
PEOPLE IN LIBYA AND TUNISIA INTO BROTHERHOOD AND LOVE. IT REPLACED
ESTRANGEMENT, REGIONALISM, AND ISOLATION WITH INTEGRATION AND UNITY.
WHAT IS NOW TAKING PLACE BETWEEN THE TWO ARAB COUNTRIES, TUNISIA AND
LIBYA, CONFIRMS, WITHOUT SPEECHES AND ADDRESSES, THESE FACTS: WHAT
EXISTED BEFORE 7 NOVEMBER WAS A FALSIFICATION OF REALITY; IT WAS A
REPRESSION OF THE ARAB CHARACTER OF TUNISIA. IT WAS AN ABORTIVE
ATTEMPT TO DISFIGURE ITS ARAB AND ISLAMIC IDENTITY.
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[TEXT] IT WAS A DIRTY ATTEMPT IN RESPONSE TO ORDERS FROM
COLONIALISTS TO FABRICATE ENMITY BETWEEN BROTHERS. HOWEVER, BETWEEN
TUNISIANS AND LIBYANS, WHO ARE BOTH ARAB PEOPLES, THERE WAS
BROTHERHOOD. THEY WERE BROTHERS WHO NEDED ONE ANOTHER. THEY
EMBRACED EACH ANOTHER [AFTER 7 NOVEMBER -- FBIS] AND TRAMPLED THE
ARTIFICIAL BORDERS UNDER FOOT.
BUT THIS IS NOT ENOUGH. THE LESSON LEARNED IS THAT SO FAR IT
REMAINS A MATTER OF LUCK AND A GAMBLE. IF A BAD SORT OF PERSON
TAKES POWER, THEN THINGS ARE FALSIFIED LIKE THEY USED TO BE. IF A
GOOD SORT OF PERSON TRIUMPHS -- AS IS THE CASE NOW AFTER 7 NOVEMBER
IN TUNISIA OR AS WAS THE CASE IN LIBYA BEFORE AND AFTER 1 SEPTEMBER
-- THEN IT IS GOOD LUCK. IN LIGHT OF THIS LESSON, WE MUST NOT
LEAVE THE FUTURE OF OUR COUNTRIES, THE FUTURE OF OUR PEOPLES, TO A
MATTER OF CHANCE OR A GAMBLE. MATTERS MUST NOT BE LEFT TO HOPES
THAT PRAYERS FOR A GOOD RULER TO TAKE OVER ARE FULFILLED. THESE
PRAYERS MIGHT NOT BE FULFILLED AND THEN A BAD RULER TAKES POWER.
AFTER THE ADVENT OF HISTORIC OCCASIONS LIKE 1 SEPTEMBER AND 7
NOVEMBER, WE MUST ENABLE THE PEOPLES TO RULE THEMSELVES, TO DO
WITHOUT A RULER ONCE AND FOR ALL. THERE MUST BE AN END TO THE SILLY
PRAYERS FOR A GOOD RULER TO REPLACE A BAD ONE. PEOPLE MUST ABANDON
SUCH CALLS AND POOR PRAYERS; THEY MUST BEGIN TO RULE THEIR OWN
LIVES. THOSE OF US WHO HAVE ENGAGED IN DANGEROUS ADVENTURES IN ORDER
TO SAVE OUR PEOPLES MUST ENABLE THEM TO EMANCIPATE THEMSELVES IN A
DEFINITIVE WAY. THE POWER OF THE MASSES MUST BE ESTABLISHED SO THAT
THESE TRAGEDIES WILL NOT BE REPEATED, SO THAT UNJUST AND DIRTY ERAS
WILL NOT BE REPEATED, AS WAS THE CASE IN LIBYA BEFORE 1 SEPTEMBER
AND IN TUNISIA BEFORE 7 NOVEMBER.
TODAY WE WELCOME ONE OF THE HEROES OF THE ARAB NATION. HE HAS
REMOVED THE ERA OF FALSIFICATION, SUBSERVIENCE, AND LIES. HE IS NOW
ACTING WITH COMPLETE CONFIDENCE AND RARE COURAGE IN REVEALING FACTS
TO THE MASSES IN TUNISIA, IN THE ARAB HOMELAND, AND IN THE ARAB
MAGHREB SO THEY WILL REALIZE THEIR SITUATION AND DECIDE THEIR OWN
FATE, IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE FACTS BEFORE THEM AND WHICH ARE NOW
BEING FEARLESSLY REVEALED IN TUNISIA OVER THE RADIO.
WHOEVER LISTENS TO TUNISIAN RADIO BROADCASTS WILL SENSE THE
BRAVERY AND SINCERITY IN OPENING THE EYES OF THE MASSES TO THEIR
PROBLEMS WITHOUT SHAME OR FEAR. THIS HISTORIC ACTION WHICH YOU,
BROTHER PRESIDENT, AND YOUR BRAVE COMRADES CARRIED OUT ON 7 NOVEMBER
GAVE US THE OPPORTUNITY TO MAKE UP FOR LOSSES CAUSED BY THE ERA OF
DEPENDENCE, ISOLATIONISM, REGIONALISM, AND DEMAGOGUERY AND GAVE US
THE OPPORTUNITY TO DISCOVER FOR OURSELVES SOLUTIONS TO OUR
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PROBLEMS. THE PRACTICAL STEPS YOU HAVE CARRIED OUT ARE PROOF OF
THIS. THE MEETINGS WHICH TOOK PLACE BETWEEN US AFTER 7 NOVEMBER IN
TUNIS OR ON JERBA ISLAND OR ON THE SIDELINES OF THE ARAB SUMMIT IN
ALGIERS OR AT THE MAGHREB SUMMIT, AS WELL AS THE CONTINUOUS
TELEPHONE CONTACTS BETWEEN US AND THIS HISTORIC MEETING TODAY ARE
ALL PRACTICAL STEPS BY WHICH YOU HAVE CONTINUOUSLY PROVEN YOUR
SINCERITY, EFFECTIVENESS, AND SERIOUSNESS. YOU HAVE NOT COME FOR
THE SAKE OF RULING, BUT YOU HAVE COME IN ORDER TO SOLVE THE PROBLEMS
OF THE MASSES. YOU KNOW THAT ISOLATIONISM, REGIONALISM, DEPENDENCE,
AND BEGGING FROM FOREIGN POWERS CANNOT SAVE A PEOPLE, GUARANTEE THE
FUTURE OF A PEOPLE, PROTECT A PEOPLE, SOLVE THE PROBLEMS OF
DEVELOPMENT OF A PEOPLE, OR THE PROBLEMS OF A CITIZEN OR A FAMILY.
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[TEXT] THIS CAN ONLY BE DONE BY SERIOUS WORK AND AS FAR AS WE
ARE CONCERNED UNIONIST WORK IN ORDER TO BRING TOGETHER THE SCATTERED
PEOPLE OF THIS NATION. WE ARE HOLDING DISCUSSIONS TODAY TO FORGE
UNITY AND TO MAKE THE FUTURE OF THE ARAB NATION AND WE ARE CONFIDENT
IN OURSELVES AND OF OUR POTENTIALITIES. THE 7 NOVEMBER MOVEMENT HAS
CONFIRMED THAT THE PERSISTENCE OF THE ANTI-ARAB FORCES WITH THEIR
CHALLENGES, PROVOCATION AND ARROGANCE -- SUCH AS THE REPEATED
ISRAELI RAIDS AGAINST THE PALESTINIAN POSITIONS INSIDE THE TUNISIAN
HOME, INSIDE SOVEREIGN TUNISIAN TERRITORY -- HAVE CONFIRMED THAT
THEY ARE COUNTERPRODUCTIVE FOR THE ENEMIES. THEY BELIEVED THAT WITH
THIS THEY WOULD FRIGHTEN US; HOEWVER, THE REVERSE HAPPENED. THEY
PROVOKED US WITH THIS ARROGANCE AND THERE WAS ANGER, REVOLUTION AND
CHANGE IN TUNISIA.
AS YOU SEE TODAY A TENT IS ATTACHED TO THIS HOUSE. AN OFFICIAL
RECEPTION IS TO BE HELD TONIGHT FOR A HEAD OF STATE. THIS HOUSE
USED TO BE A RESIDENCE FOR HEADS OF STATE DURING THEIR VISITS TO
LIBYA. THE GREATEST WESTERN STATE, THE UNITED STATES, ATTACKED THIS
HOUSE WITH THE GREATEST AIR FLEET BACKED BY ALL THE NATO BASES.
THERE COULD HAVE BEEN A BANQUET LIKE THIS ONE ON THAT NIGHT, AND A
HEAD OF STATE COULD HAVE BEEN ASLEEP IN THIS HOUSE. BUT THE
IMPERIALISTS, THE YANKEES, HAVE NO ETHICS. THEY SUFFER FROM THE
FOLLY OF POWER. AS IN THE ISRAELI RAIDS AGAINST TUNISIA, THEIR AIM
WAS TO INTIMIDATE US, SO THAT WE WOULD BOW OUR HEADS. BUT THE
REVERSE HAPPENED: WE CHALLENGED THEM, AND THEIR ACT CAME AS A
PROVOCATION TO ALL THE REVOLUTIONARY FORCES IN THE WORLD. BLOWS WERE
DEALT TO THE UNITED STATES EVERYWHERE FROM FORCES THAT HAVE NO LINKS
WITH LIBYA AND THAT WE DO NOT KNOW. THE UNITED STATES WAS ATTACKED
IN ALL THE CONTINENTS OF THE WORLD, AND ATTACKS STILL CONTINUE
AGAINST THE UNITED STATES AND BRITAIN FROM FORCES THAT HAVE NEITHER
LINKS NOR TIES WITH LIBYA AND WHICH WE DO NOT KNOW.
BUT THESE FORCES KNOW THAT LIBYA IS AN INTERNATIONAL PLATFORM FOR
THE INTERNATIONAL POPULAR REVOLUTION, AND THAT THE LIBYAN PEOPLE ARE
PEOPLE ASPIRING TO FREEDOM AND PEACE, PEOPLE WHICH HAVE BEEN
WRONGED. THEY ALSO KNOW THAT U.S. IMPERIALISM TRANSGRESSED AGAINST
AND KILLED INNOCENT CHILDREN. THEREFORE, ALL THE CHILDREN OF THE
SMALL AND WEAK PEOPLES ARE ON THE MURDER LIST. THERE STILL IS A MAD
IMPERIALIST FORCE. AND THUS, IN DEFENSE OF THE CHILDREN THAT HAVE
NOT YET BEEN MARTYRED, NOT KILLED YET, THE FREEMEN AND
REVOLUTIONARIES OF THE WORLD DEALT BLOWS TO THE UNITED STATES AND TO
BRITAIN EVERYWHERE. THEY STILL CONTINUE TO DO SO, AND THE
INTERNATIONAL STRUGGLE AGAINST IMPERIALISM WILL CONTINUE UNTIL THE
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LATTER DISAPPEARS, BECAUSE PEOPLE ASPIRE TO PEACE, FREEDOM, GROWTH
AND ABUNDANCE. BUT IMPERIALISM WANTS TO TURN EVERYWHERE TO ITS OWN
INTEREST. IT WANTS TO KILL ALL IN ORDER TO SURVIVE.
THESE ACTS, WHICH VICTIMIZED THE TUNISIAN, PALESTINIAN, LIBYAN
AND LEBANESE PEOPLES, HAVE FAILED TO TAME US, TO SUBJUGATE US.
QUITE THE REVERSE: THEY HAVE YIELDED BAD RESULTS FOR THEIR
PERPETRATORS. THEY HAVE YIELDED REVOLUTION IN TUNISIA; THEY
INCREASED CHALLENGES IN LIBYA, AND SUPPORT INCREASED IN THE WORLD
.AROUND THE LIBYAN REVOLUTION, WHILE HATRED AND HOSTILITY INCREASED
ON EARTH AGAINST THE UNITED STATES AND BRITAIN. AND THE STRUGGLE OF
THESE PEOPLES CONTINUE.
BROTHER PRESIDENT; I SAY ONCE AGAIN, AS I SAID DURING THE OPENING
SESSION, A FEW HOURS AGO, THAT WORDS DO NOT GIVE YOU ENOUGH CREDIT
FOR THE HISTORIC ACTION UNDERTAKEN BY YOU AND YOUR COLLEGUES, ACTION
AROUND WHICH THE BRAVE TUNISIAN PEOPLE RALLIED, PEOPLE WHO WERE
HELPLESS AND WHOSE WILL WAS FALSIFIED. THEY WERE ALSO OPPRESSED.
THE 7TH OF NOVEMBER DID NOT COME FROM A VACUUM. IT WAS A NATURAL
REPLY TO THE BETRAYAL OF THE JERBA DECLARATION. AFTER THE
CANCELLATION OF THE JERBA DECLARATION, DESPITE THE WILL OF THE
TUNISIAN AND THE LIBYAN PEOPLE IN 1974, THE STUDENTS' REVOLT ERUPTED
IN TUNISIA BEFORE THE STUDENTS' REVOLT IN LIBYA. THE STUDENTS'
REVOLT BROKE OUT IN TUNISIA IN 1975. UNIVERSITY STUDENTS WERE
TORTURED IN TUNISIA. THAT STUDENTS' REVOLT CAME AS A REACTION TO
THE ABORTING OF THE UNITY OF THE TWO COUNTRIES.
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[TEXT] IN 1978 CAME THE WORKERS' REVOLT IN TUNISIA, YET ANOTHER
ESCALATION OF THE POPULAR REVOLUTION AGAINST ACTS OF ABORTING UNITY
AND FALSIFYING THE WILL OF THE ARAB PEOPLE. THEN IN 1980 CAME THE
ARMED REVOLT IN QAFSAH, WHICH EXPRESSED WITH BLOOD AND GUNFIRE THE
WRATH OF THE TUNISIAN PEOPLE. THEN CAME THE BREAD REVOLT IN 1984,
AND IN 1987 THE REVOLT OF MUSLIM FUNDAMENTALISM. THESE CONTINUOUS
LINKS IN THE CHAIN OF POPULAR REVOLT LED BY THE ARAB PEOPLE IN
TUNISIA WERE CROWNED BY 7 NOVEMBER. IT WAS 7 NOVEMBER THAT REVENTED
THE UNIVERSITY MARTYRS WHO FELL IN 1975. IT CAME AS A CROWNING OF
THE WORKERS' REVOLT IN TUNISIA IN 1978, OF THE ARMED REVOLT BY THE
MARTYRS OF QAFSAH IN 1980. IT WAS REVENGE FOR THE MARTYRS OF THE
BREAD REVOLT IN 1984. IT WAS A RESPONSE TO THE FUNDAMENTALISM THAT
EXPRESSED ITSELF IN THE REVOLT OF THE FUNDAMENTALISTS IN 1987.
THUS, BROTHER ZINE EL ABIDINE BEN ALI WAS THE GOOD SON OF THE
ARAB PEOPLE IN TUNISIA, LOYAL TO THE STRUGGLES OF THE ARAB PEOPLE IN
TUNISIA, WHO RESPONDED TO THE ASPIRATIONS OF TE MASSES OF STUDENTS
AND TOILING MEN.
THE ARAB PEOPLE IN LIBYA EXPRESS TO YOU NOT WITH WORDS BUT
THROUGH THE FEELINGS OF PLEASURE SEEN TODAY, THROUGH SWEAT AND
CHEERS, THEY EXPRESS TO YOU ALL THESE MEANINGS.
BROTHER PRESIDENT, YOU ARE THE ONE WHO COINED THE SLOGAN "MAGHREB
WITHOUT BORDERS." EVERY CITIZEN IN THE ARAB MAGHREB ADOPTED THIS
SLOGAN. ALL YOUR FAMILIES TODAY IN LIBYA MADE THEMSELVES THE
PLACARDS WITH WHICH THEY MET YOU: "MAGHREB WITHOUT BORDERS." THE
SLOGANS OF UNITY ARE SPREADING LIKE FIRE IN DRY STICKS OF WOOD. BUT
THE ISOLATIONIST AND REGIONAL SLOGANS ARE DYING, TOGETHER WITH THEIR
BEARERS, AND THEY END UP IN THE ASH HEAP OF HISTORY.
YOUR MOVE ON 7 NOVEMBER MADE THE MASSES OF THE ARAB NATION
EVERYWHERE CONFIDENT THAT THE PEOPLE, DESPITE ATTEMPTS TO FRUSTRATE
THEIR WILL AND DESPITE HEAVY SHACKLES ON THEIR HANDS, LEGS, AND
NECKS, WILL SOMEDAY BREAK THE BONDS, AND THEIR SACRIFICES WILL NOT
BE IN VAIN, AND THE ASPIRATIONS OF THE PEOPLE, EXPRESSED IN SWEAT
AND EVEN BLOOD -- AS HAPPENED RECENTLY IN TUNISIA WILL BE
FULFILILED. THIS GIVES US CONFIDENCE IN THE STRUGGLE OF THE MASSES,
EVEN IF THEY WERE OPPRESSED, AND EVEN IF THE REVOLUTION SEEMS TO
HAVE FAILED. THE FIRE REMAINS ALIVE BENEATH THE ASHES UNTIL THE
STORM COMES AND EXPOSES THE LIVE CINDERS. THE 7TH OF NOVEMBER GAVE
CONFIDENCE TO THE ARAB PEOPLE IN TUNISIA, THE ARAB MAGHREB, THE ARAB
WORLD, AND IN AFRICA, WHERE MANY PEOPLES ARE STRUGGLING FOR
LIBERATION AND SALVATION TO RID THEMSELVES OF HEGEMONY,
DICTATORSHIP, AND ISOLATION. THIS IS PRICELESS. THE 7TH OF
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NOVEMBER GAVE ARAB HOPE A BOOST, WHICH IS PRICELESS, AND CONTRIBUTED
TO VICTORY OVER THE DESPAIR THAT PREVIALS OVER MANY OF THE PEOPLES
OF THE ARAB NATION. ALL THE TYRANTS WILL FALL, ONE AFTER ANOTHER.
THE UNITED STATES CANNOT SAVE ITS CLOSEST AGENT AND MOST DESPICABLE
AND SUBSERVIENT ONE. THEY ARE FALLING, AND THE UNITED STATES IS
WATCHING. THE REST OF THE AGENTS SHOULD SEE A LESSON IN WHAT
HAPPENED IN LIBYA, TUNISIA, AND SUDAN. THEIR FATE WILL BE SIMILAR
TO THE FATE OF THESE EXAMPLES AND THESE IDOLS. WHO AMONG THEM COULD
TRUST, AFTER THESE LESSONS, THAT THE UNITED STATES, FRANCE, BRITAIN,
OR ANY OTHER POWER WHO HAS FOLLOWERS COULD SAVE THEM FROM FALLING
BEFORE THE MARCH OF THE MASSES.
IN ADDITION TO ALL THIS, 7 NOVEMBER GAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO MAKE
THE TWO FRATERNAL COUNTRIES MEET. THEY ARE ONE PEOPLE, ONE COUNTRY,
AND ONE HOMELAND UPON WHICH FALSE ISOLATION AND HATRED WERE IMPOSED.
THE 7TH OF NOVEMBER GAVE US THIS OPPORTUNITY, IN ADDITION TO THE
CHANCE TO WORK TOWARD ACHIEVING UNITY BETWEEN THEM, ARAB MAGHREB
UNITY, AND ARAB NATIONAL UNITY, TO PUT THE RESOURCES OF LIBYA AND
TUNISIA AT THE SERVICE OF THE PEOPLE, THE CAUSE OF THE PALESTINIAN
ARAB PEOPLE, THE CAUSE OF THE PEOPLES OF THE ARAB NATION, THE
AFRICAN PEOPLES. SINCE 7 NOVEMBER, WE MARCH TOGETHER. WE WERE
ALONE IN THIS REGION, BUT NOW WE MARCH TOGETHER, MORE THAN ONE, MORE
THAN TWO, AND WE ARE NOW AN EFFECTIVE FORCE FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF
THE ARAB MAGHREB AND ARAB UNITY.
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[TEXT] BROTHER PRESIDENT, YOU ARE SHOULDERING A GREAT
RESPONSIBILITY IN THE STRUGGLE BY YOUR FRIENDSHIP TO YOUR
PALESTINIAN BROTHERS, THE REFUGEES FROM OCCUPIED PALESTINE. IT IS A
PAN-ARAB RESPONSIBILITY, WHICH IS SHOULDERED BY THE ARAB PEOPLE IN
TUNISIA. YOU ARE PERSONALLY SHOULDERING IT BY EMBRACING YOUR
PALESTINIAN BROTHERS.
THROUGH THIS TUNISIA ENTERED THE CONFRONTATION WITH THE ISRAELI
ENEMY, AND BECAME A FRONTLINE COUNTRY, AS LIBYA IS A FRONTLINE
COUNTRY AGAINST THE UNITED STATES, NOT TO MENTION THE ISRAELIS.
TUNISIA HAS BECOME A DIRECT FRONTLINE COUNTRY AGAINST THE ISRAELIS.
WHEN THE WORLD NOW SAYS ISRAEL, IT MEANS THE UNITED STATES, AND
WHEN IT SAYS THE UNITED STATES IT MEANS ISRAEL. WE CANNOT DECEIVE
OURSELVES OR BE DECEIVED BY ANYONE THAT THERE IS ANY DIFFERENCE
WHATSOEVER BETWEEN SO-CALLED ISRAEL AND THE UNITED STATES., EVEN THE
NON-ARABS -- LET US ASK ANY OBSERVER IN THE WORLD -- HE CANNOT FIND
A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SO-CALLED ISRAEL AND THE UNITED STATES. WHEN
TUNISIA IS IN THE FRONTLINE AGAINST THE ISRAELIS, THEN IT HAS COME
IN THE FRONTLINE AGAINST THE UNITED STATES. INDEED, THE U.S. 6TH
FLEET USED ITS RESOURCES AND MADE THE ISRAELI RAID ON TUNIS
POSSIBLE. THE UNITED STATES IS STILL PUTTING ITS RESOURCES AT THE
DISPOSAL OF THE ISRAELIS TO STRIKE AT TUNISIA AND ANY OTHER ARAB
COUNTRY STANDING BY ITS PALESTINIAN BROTHER.
IF THE UNITED STATES, ON ONE HAND, CLAIMS THAT IT IS OUR FRIEND,
AND ON THE OTHER HAND GRANTS ALL ITS ECONOMIC AND MILITARY RESOURCES
AND MEANS OF DESTRUCTION TO THE ISRAELIS IN ORDER TO HIT (?US), THEN
THIS INSULTS OUR INTELLIGENCE. THIS MEANS THAT THE UNITED STATES IS
MOCKING US AND THINKS THAT WE ARE CHILDREN. IT EXTENDS ONE HAND TO
US AND STABS US IN THE BACK WITH THE OTHER. THIS MEANS THAT WE ARE
FOOLS. WE DENY THIS DESCRIPTION. WE KNOW THAT THE UNITED STATES IS
THE MORTAL ENEMY OF THE ARAB NATION AND IS THE DEFENDER OF THE
ZIONIST ENTITY, TOGETHER WITH THE OTHER EUROPEAN COUNTRIES, WHICH
ENABLED THIS ENEMY TO MANUFACTURE THE NUCLEAR BOMB. NOW IT ENABLES
THE ENEMY TO MANUFACTURE MISSILES THAT COULD REACH EVERY ARAB
CAPITAL.
WE CANNOT BELIEVE THAT THE UNITED SATES GIVES ASSISTANCE TO TUNIS
AND GIVES A MISSILE TO THE ISRAELIS TO DESTROY TUNIS. IF WE BELIEVE
THAT, THEN WE WILL BE AS THE UNITED STATES THINKS, CHILDREN OR
FOOLS. IN THIS CASE WE SAY THAT THE UNITED STATES IS THE FOOL
BECAUSE IT THINKS THAT THIS WILL DECEIVE US.
IN THIS REGARD THERE IS NOTHING TO STOP US SUPPORTING THE
ESTABLISHMENT OF A PALESTINIAN GOVERNMENT. I ASKED THE PALESTINIANS
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SOME YEARS AGO TO FORM A PALESTINIAN GOVERNMENT AND TO MAKE THE
PALESTINIAN RESISTANCE FORCES INTO A PALESTINIAN LIBERATION ARMY,
AND TO MAKE THE PLO REPRESENTATIVES IN THE WORLD INTO AMBASSADORS OF
THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE. THROUGH THIS WE WOULD UNDERLINE THAT'THERE
IS A PEOPLE, THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE, AND THAT THERE IS A GOVERNMENT,
THE PALESTINIAN GOVERNMENT, AND THERE IS AN ARMY, THE PALESTINIAN
LIBERATION ARMY, AND THAT THERE IS AN OCCUPIED LAND, PALESTINE. WE
WILL TALK ABOUT THAT IN THE FUTURE.
IN ADDITION IT IS IMPORTANT TO DECLARE OUR SUPPORT FOR THE
ACCEPTANCE OF A CEASE-FIRE BETWEEN IRAQ AND IRAN, BUT AT THE SAME
TIME, WE EXPRESS OUR DISGUST WITH THE LACK OF CREDIBLITY OF THIS
WAR, WHICH WAS UNREASONABLE AT THE BEGINNING AND HAS REMAINED SO, AS
SHOWN BY ITS ACTIONS AT ITS END -- UNTIL WHAT WE THINK IS ITS END.
THE CONTINUATION OF THE FIGHTING, IN SPITE OF THE ACCEPTANCE BY BOTH
SIDES OF THE UN SECURITY COUNCIL RESOLUTION ON A CEASE-FIRE, IS IN
FACT RIDICULOUS AND DOES NOT CALL FOR RESPECT. THE WORLD IS NEARLY
WASHING ITS HANDS OF THIS WAR AND LEAVING IT TO FALL ON THE HEADS OF
THOSE FIGHTING IT. REASON AND WISDOM HAVE STEERED AWAY FROM THIS
IRAN HAS ACCEPTED THE CEASE-FIRE AT THE INSISTENCE OF LIBYA AND
ACCEPTED THE SECURITY COUNCIL RESOLUTION. NOW I CAN SAY THAT FORCES
FROM ALGERIA, INDONESIA AND NIGERIA, ISLAMIC FORCES THAT WERE
SUGGESTED BY LIBYA, AND WITH THE SUPERVISION OF LIBYA, ARE ABLE TO
IMPLEMENT THE CEASE-FIRE IN THE GULF MORE THAN THE MISERABLE
ATTEMPTS OF THE UN SECRETARY GENERAL, [WORDS INDISTINCT], MORE THAN
THE FAILED ATTEMPTS OF THE SECURITY COUNCIL.
IN ACTUAL FACT, THE CEASE-FIRE ITSELF DOES NOT INTEREST US AS
MUCH AS WE ARE INTERESTED IN DEDICATING THESE FORCES TO FIGHTING THE
REAL ENEMY IN THE REGION -- THE ISRAELI ENEMY, WHICH HAS STARTED NOW
TO ARM ITSELF WITH NUCLEAR WEAPONS. NOW THE UNITED STATED ENABLES
IT TO MANUFACTURE MISSILES WITH A RANGE OF 400KM, WHICH ARE DIRECTED
AGAINST THE ARAB HOMELAND FROM THE OCEAN TO THE GULF, INCLUDING
IRAN. THIS REQUIRES CONFRONTATION WITH THE BASE OF AGGRESSION AND
DEALING WITH THIS DANGER.
IN ADDITION, AS AFRICANS, WHEN WE MEET WE DO NO FORGET AFRICA AND
ITS PROBLEMS, BURDENS AND OUR DUTY TO HELP IT. TODAY WE TALKED, AND
TOMORROW -- GOD WILLING -- WE WILL ALSO TALK, ABOUT OUR AFRICAN DUTY
TOWARDS AFRICA, OF UNLIMITED SUPPORT FOR THE STRUGGLE OF THE AFRICAN
PEOPLE IN SOUTH AFRICA AND IN NAMIBIA, AND THE NECESSITY OF GRANTING
NAMIBIA IMMEDIATE INDEPENDENCE WITHOUT ANY CONDITIONS, AND SUPPORT
SWAPO'S ARMED STRUGGLE TO LIBERATE NAMIBIA.
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[TEXT] WE ALSO TALKED ABOUT CHAD AND WE WILL TALK MORE ABOUT
IT. WE STRESS THIS LIBYAN INITIATIVE ON THE OAU'S SILVER JUBILEE.
LIBYA IS COMMITTED TO THIS INITIATIVE. LIBYA INSISTS ON EXTENDING A
HELPING HAND TO THE CHADIAN PEOPLE. LIBYA WAS INVOLVED IN A CHADIAN
WAR IN CHAD. LIBYA WAS INVOLVED IN A CHADIAN INTERNAL WAR FOR VERY
LOGICAL REASONS: FROLINA, THE CHADIAN NATIONAL LIBERATION MOVEMENT,
WAS FIGHTING AGAINST MINORITY CONTROL, WHICH WAS SUPPORTED BY
FRANCE. HOWEVER, AFTER DIVISIONS APPEARED IN FROLINA, LIBYA BECAME
INVOLVED IN THE FIGHTING BETWEEN THE FACTIONS OF FROLINA. LIBYA HAS
ENOUGH COURAGE TO DECLARE THIS AND TO DECLARE THAT IT IS NEUTRAL IN
THE CHADIAN CONFLICT. WE KNOW THAT CURRENTLY THE GREATEST PROBLEM
FACING CHAD IS THE CONFLICT BETWEEN GOUKOUNI AND HABRE. HOWEVER,.
AFTER OUR TALKS TODAY, WE CAN ANNOUNCE THAT THE CONFLICT BETWEEN
GOUKOUNI AND HABRE IS AN INTERNAL CONFLICT, A CHADIAN-CHADIAN
CONFLICT, WHICH HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH LIBYA. LIBYA CANNOT MAKE
SETTLING THE CONFLICT BETWEEN THE TWO SIDES A CONDITION FOR
NORMALIZING ITS RELATIONS WITH CHAD.
LIBYA DECLARES ITS READINESS, BEFORE BROTHER PRESIDENT ZINE EL
ABIDINE BEN ALI, TO OPEN A PEOPLE'S BUREAU IN N'DJAMENA AND TO
ACCEPT AN EMBASSY FROM N'DJAMENA IN LIBYA, AND TO COMPLETELY
NORMALIZE RELATIONS WITHOUT MAKING THE SETTLEMENT OF THE CONFLICT
BETWEEN GOUKOUNI AND HABRE A CONDITION FOR THAT. WE CAN DECLARE
THAT THE CONFLICT BETWEEN THEM IS AN INTERNAL ONE, AND LIBYA IS NOT
INTERESTED IN WHETHER THIS CONFLICT CONTINUES BY WAR OR PEACE.
LIBYA WILL NOT INTERFERE IN THIS UNLESS THE CONFLICTING CHADIAN
SIDES ASK IT TO PARTICIPATE IN A PEACEFUL SOLUTION. THEN THIS WILL
BE OUR DUTY.
IN THIS MEETING, WE STRESS THAT WE STAND WITH ALL OUR RESOURCES
BY THE UPRISING OF OUR PEOPLE IN PALESTINE. WE CALL ON THEM TO
EXTEND THE UPRISING ALL OVER THE AREA FROM THE RIVER [RIVER JORDAN -
- FBIS] TO THE SEA [MEDITERRANEAN -- FBIS], AND FROM SOUTHERN
LEBANON TO SOUTHERN PALESTINE UNDER THE SLOGAN: LIBERATION FROM THE
SOUTH TO THE SOUTH AND FROM THE RIVER TO THE SEA. WE CALL ON THE
GENERATION OF ANGER, WHICH LEADS THE REVOLUTION IN PALESTINE TO
SECRETLY SABOTAGE THE INSTITUTIONS OF THE ENEMY, TO CARRY OUT SECRET
SABOTAGE IN THE INSTITUTIONS OF THE ZIONIST ENEMY AND TO CARRY OUT
SECRET VIOLENT RESISTANCE, TO ENGAGE IN POPULAR REJECTION AND CIVIL
DISOBEDIENCE.
WE WILL DO OUR UTMOST TO MOBILIZE THE RESOURCES OF THE ARAB
NATION BEHIND THE UPRISING OF THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE. WE, THE
ARABS, CANNOT SLEEP AS LONG AS PALESTINE IS OCCUPIED, BECAUSE THE
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EXISTENCE OF THE ZIONIST ENEMY ON THE LAND OF PALESTINE NOT ONLY IS
A DANGER TO THE PALESTINIANS, BUT IS ALSO A DANGER TO ALL ARABS.
THIS IS A USURPATION OF PART OF THE ARAB HOMELAND AND A BLATANT
AGGRESSION BY THE WORLD ON ARABS. WE SHOULD NOT PAY FOR THE CRIME
OF HITLER. WE DO NOT ACCEPT DIVIDING THE WORLD ON A RELIGIOUS
BASIS, LETTING THE FOLLOWERS OF EVERY RELIGION ESTABLISH A STATE FOR
THEMSELVES. EVEN IF THIS WERE TO HAPPEN, WE DO NOT ACCEPT THAT
THESE STATES SHOULD BE ESTABLISHED AT THE EXPENSE OF OTHERS. EVEN
IF THE WORLD DECIDED TO ESTABLISH A STATE FOR THE JEWS, WE REFUSE TO
ACCEPT THAT THIS SHOULD BE AT THE EXPENSE OF US, THE ARABS. THOSE
WHO WANT TO ESTABLISH THIS STATE ON A RELIGIOUS BASIS, LET THEM
DONATE A PART OF THEIR LAND TO ESTABLISH THIS RELIGIOUS STATE. THIS
SHOULD NOT BE AT THE EXPENSE OF THE ARAB PEOPLE.
LET THE ARMED STRUGGLE BETWEEN US AND THE ENEMY CONTINUE. WE
WOULD RATHER ACCEPT BEING ANNIHILATED IN BATTLE THAN ALLOWING A TIME
BOMB TO BE PLANTED WITHIN THE ARAB HOMELAND THAT WOULD LEAD TO
SUCCESSIVE EXPLOSIONS AT OUR EXPENSE. WE DECLARE THAT THE CONFLICT
IS A CONFLICT FOR SURVIVAL AND NOT FOR BORDERS. ANYONE WHO SAYS
OTHERWISE IS A LIAR, HYPOCRITE, AND COWARD, WHO WANTS TO FALSIFY THE
FACTS AND WILL FALL -- AS AL-SADAT FELL, AS KING 'ABDALLAH FELL, AS
NURI AL-SA'ID, AND AS ALL THOSE WHO WANTED TO FALSIFY THE TRUTH
FELL.
WE CANNOT DECEIVE OURSELVES AND (?CLAIM) THAT THERE IS PEACE. THE
SO-CALLED INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE IS THE BIGGEST DECEPTION,
PARTICULARLY SINCE THE PLO DOES NOT ENJOY THE STATUS OF AN
INDEPENDENT DELEGATION. EVEN IF IT DID HAVE SUCH STATUS, THE
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE REMAINS A DECEPTION THAT WOULD ENSURE THE
IMPOSITION OF CAMP DAVID ON THE ARABS. HENCE, LIBYA REJECTS IT AND
STANDS IN SOLIDARITY WITH THE PALESTINIAN REVOLUTION FORCES IN THEIR
REJECTION OF THE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE DECEPTION.
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[TEXT] WE DO NOT NEGOTIATE WITH THE ISRAELIS EXCEPT WITHIN THE
UNITED NATIONS AND AT ITS FORUM ONLY. ON THE GROUND THERE IS
NOTHING BETWEEN US EXCEPT FIGHTING. THE ARAB NATION HAS CONFIDENCE
IN ITSELF AND IN ITS CAPABILITY TO CONTINUE THE STRUGGLE REGARDLESS
OF TIME. IT POSSESSES THE HUMAN AND MATERIAL STRENGTH AND HAS THE
RIGHT TO CONTINUE THE STRUGGLE FOR THE JUST CAUSE, AND IT WILL
TRIUMPH IN THE END.
AS FOR OUR TWO COUNTRIES, DEAR BROTHER, LET THE AMBASSADORS OF
FOREIGN COUNTRIES AND THE GUESTS HEAR THIS: THERE IS NO PROBLEM
BETWEEN TUNISIA AND LIBYA SINCE 7 NOVEMBER. THERE IS UNITY EXISTING
NOW BETWEEN THE TWO PEOPLES WITHOUT DECLARATION, AND POLITICAL UNITY
BETWEEN US WITHOUT A CONSTITUTION. THIS IS NOT AN ACTION IMPOSED BY
US, BUT RATHER REALITY; WE ARE ONE THRONE, ONE PEOPLE, ONE FAMILY.
IT WAS FALSENESS AND THOUGHTLESSNESS THAT SEPARATED US, AND NOW,
SINCE THAT FALSENESS HAS FALLEN, THE TRUTH REMAINS: NAMELY, WE ARE
BROTHERS.
WE WELCOME YOU ONCE MORE, BROTHER PRESIDENT, HERO OF 7 NOVEMBER,
AND WE WISH THAT YOU WILL PROLONG YOUR STAY AMONG YOUR BROTHERS IN
LIBYA SO THAT THE LIBYANS WILL KNOW YOU AND YOUR COUNTRY BETTER.
LIBYA IS OPEN TO YOU, AND YOU CAN SPEAK TO THE LIBYANS AT THE
PEOPLE'S CONGRESSES, AT THE PEOPLE'S COMMITTEES, AT THE
REVOLUTIONARY COMMITTEES, AND ON TELEVISION AND RADIO.
WE SHOULD SEIZE THIS OPPORTUNITY TO EXPRESS TO YOU, IN YOUR
COUNTRY LIBYA THE APPRECIATION AND SUPPORT YOU CAN PERSONALLY
ASCERTAIN, AND I EXPRESS TONIGHT MY OVERWHELMING HAPPINESS AND THE
HAPPINESS OF ALL LIBYANS AT YOUR PRESENCE AMONG THEM. MAY GOD GUIDE
YOU TOWARD SUCCESS. [APPLAUSE]
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