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LIBYA: AL-QADHDHAFI BANQUET SPEECH

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August 7, 1988
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Declassif ed and Approved For Release 2012/01/30: CIA-RDP05-01559R000400410053_2 46 Y#.4f 1711 / icej /r(on.-?- 10, 10 ? `,a / ` ?rv 121569. Sun Aug 07 19:46:04 1988 FBIS 077 -(SEE 051 AND ADDS) LIBYA: AL-QADHDHAFI BANQUET SPEECH TAKE 1 OF 7 -- QADHDHAFI SPEECH 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. Declassified and Approved For Release 2012/01/30: CIA-RDP05-01559R000400410053-2 Declassified and Approved For Release 2012/01/30: CIA-RDP05-01559R000400410053-2 a ? T21569 Sun Aug 07 19:46:04 1988 Page 2 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. Declassified and Approved For Release 2012/01/30: CIA-RDP05-01559R000400410053-2 Declassified and Approved For Release 2012/01/30: CIA-RDP05-01559R000400410053-2 ? ? T21577 Sun Aug 07 19:55:27 1988 FBIS 078 -TAKE 2 OF 7 -- 077 (QADHDHAFI SPEECH) Sun Aug 07 19:40:13 1988 [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 Declassified and Approved For Release 2012/01/30: CIA-RDP05-01559R000400410053-2 Declassified and Approved For Release 2012/01/30: CIA-RDP05-01559R000400410053-2 ? ? T21577 Sun Aug 07 19:55:27 1988 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. (MORE) 07 AUG 2340Z JLB Declassified and Approved For Release 2012/01/30: CIA-RDP05-01559R000400410053-2 Declassified and Approved For Release 2012/01/30: CIA-RDP05-01559R000400410053-2 a 49 T21592 Sun Aug 07 19:57:22 1988 FBIS 079 -TAKE 3 OF 7 -- 077 (QADHDHAFI SPEECH) Page 1 [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 Declassified and Approved For Release 2012/01/30: CIA-RDP05-01559R000400410053-2 Declassified and Approved For Release 2012/01/30: CIA-RDP05-01559R000400410053-2 a 49 T21592 Sun Aug 07 19:57:22 1988 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. Declassified and Approved For Release 2012/01/30: CIA-RDP05-01559R000400410053-2 Declassified and Approved For Release 2012/01/30: CIA-RDP05-01559R000400410053-2 ? ? T21619 Sun Aug 07 19:58:31 1988 FBIS 080 -TAKE 4 OF 7 -- 077 (QADHDHAFI SPEECH) Page 1 [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 Declassified and Approved For Release 2012/01/30: CIA-RDP05-01559R000400410053-2 Declassified and Approved For Release 2012/01/30: CIA-RDP05-01559R000400410053-2 ? to 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. Declassified and Approved For Release 2012/01/30: CIA-RDP05-01559R000400410053-2 Declassified and Approved For Release 2012/01/30: CIA-RDP05-01559R000400410053-2 w 0 T21622 Sun Aug 07 19:59:06 1988 FBIS 081 -TAKE 5 OF 7 -- 077 (QADHDHAFI SPEECH) [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 Declassified and Approved For Release 2012/01/30: CIA-RDP05-01559R000400410053-2 Declassified and Approved For Release 2012/01/30: CIA-RDP05-01559R000400410053-2 w 0 T21622 Sun Aug 07 19:59:06 1988 Page 2 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. Declassified and Approved For Release 2012/01/30: CIA-RDP05-01559R000400410053-2 Declassified and Approved For Release 2012/01/30: CIA-RDP05-01559R000400410053-2 w ? T21624 Sun Aug 07 19:59:29 1988 FBIS 082 -TAKE 6 OF 7 -- 077 (QADHDHAFI SPEECH) Sun Aug 07 19:57:09 1988 [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 Declassified and Approved For Release 2012/01/30: CIA-RDP05-01559R000400410053-2 Declassified and Approved For Release 2012/01/30: CIA-RDP05-01559R000400410053-2 w 4P T21624 Sun Aug 07 19:59:29 1988 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. Declassified and Approved For Release 2012/01/30: CIA-RDP05-01559R000400410053-2 Declassified and Approved For Release 2012/01/30: CIA-RDP05-01559R000400410053-2 w i T21625 Sun Aug 07 20:00:05 1988 FBIS 083 -TAKE 7 OF 7 -- 077 (QADHDHAFI SPEECH) Page 1 [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] Declassified and Approved For Release 2012/01/30: CIA-RDP05-01559R000400410053-2

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