ALGIERS TV INTERVIEWS AL-QADHDHAFI

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 2, 2012
• Sequence Number: 37
• Publication Date: September 6, 1988
• Content Type: CABLE

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COUNTRY: LIBYA
SUBJ: TAKE 2 OF 8 -- ALGIERS TV INTERVIEWS AL-QADHDHAFI
REF: LD0609234188 TRIPOLI TELEVISION ARABIC 062010///WAY, AREN'T
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((EXCERPTS)) ((AL-QADHDHAFI CONTINUES)) IN FACT, THE
BLOODLETTING AND INFIGHTING AMONG ARABS IS AN EMBARRASSMENT
BEFORE THE WORLD AND IS USELESS. WE HAVE NOT EVEN SEEN
SERIOUS ORIENTATIONS FOR WHICH EVERYONE WOULD MAKE
SACRIFICES. IF THE POLISARIO WAS A REVOLUTION AIMED AT
CHANGING THE BORDERS, THE ECONOMIC SYSTEM, AND THE POLITICAL
SYSTEM IN THE ENTIRE REGION AND AT MOBILIZING THE POWERS IN
THE REGION TO DIRECT THEM TOWARD PALESTINE OR AT ACHIEVING
ARAB UNITY, FAIR ENOUGH; IT WOULD HAVE HAD THE SUPPORT OF
EVEN THE MOROCCAN, LIBYAN, AND ALGERIAN YOUTH AND IT WOULD
HAVE BECOME WIDER.
WE SUPPORTED THE POLISARIO IN THE BEGINNING BECAUSE IT
WAS A REVOLUTIONARY EXPLOSION BUT WHEN IT BECAME A MOVEMENT
FOR THE INDEPENDENCE OF TENS OF THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE IN ORDER
TO ADD A NEW MINI-ARAB STATE, THIS DEMAND IS NOT ENCOURAGING
FOR US NOR FOR THE ENTIRE NATION. WITH 20 STATES, THERE IS
NO NEED TO ADD A 21ST STATE, ANOTHER MINI-STATE. WE ARE
PROTESTING AGAINST THE EXISTENCE OF ALL THESE STATELETS,
WHICH SHOULD BE ONE SINGLE STATE. SO HOW CAN WE ACCEPT THE
ADDITION OF ANOTHER SMALL STATE?
HAVING SAID THAT, THE INHABITANTS OF SAQIA AL-HAMRA AND
RIO DE ORO ARE HUMAN BEINGS AND THEY ARE A PEOPLE WHOSE WILL
MUST BE RESPECTED. WE MUST NOT INVADE THEM OR ATTACK THEM
AS WE WOULD ATTACK A FLOCK OF SHEEP OR WILD ANIMALS. THIS
IS THE REASON WHY WE IN FACT SUPPORTED THE STANDS OF THE
POLISARIO ((WORDS, INDISTINCT)) BECAUSE THE WILL OF THIS
PEOPLE MUST BE RESPECTED, REGARDLESS OF WHETHER IT IS BIG OR
SMALL. THE HUMAN WILL AND THE ASPIRATIONS ARE NOT MEASURED
IN NUMBERS; THESE THINGS ARE MORAL AND NOT MATERIAL. THE
SAHRAWI PEOPLE MUST HAVE THE RIGHT FOR SELF-DETERMINATION
AND IN THIS WE AGREE WITH THE ALGERIAN LEADERSHIP AND WE
AGREE ON THE NEED FOR THE SAHRAWI PEOPLE TO HAVE SELF-
DETERMINATION. I BELIEVE THAT THE CURRENT MEASURES ARE
AIMED AT GIVING THE SAHRAWI PEOPLE THE OPPORTUNITY TO DECIDE
ITS FUTURE WITH A YES OR A NO. THIS IS THE RIGHT THING TO
DO. ALL THE EFFORTS MUST BE NOW MADE TO ENSURE THE SUCCESS
OF THE REFERENDUM, REGARDLESS OF WHETHER THEY SAY YES OR NO.
THIS IS THE RIGHT THING TO DO IN FACT.
WITH REGARD TO THE MAGHREBIAN TRENDS, WE ARE INDEED VERY
GLAD, BECAUSE THE ARABS' AWARENESS HAS REACHED A STAGE WHERE
THEY KNOW THAT UNITY IS A NECESSITY. WE HAVE BEEN RAISING
THIS SLOGAN FOR THE PAST 20 YEARS, AND WE HAVE BEEN SAYING
THATUNITY WAS NECESSARY AND THAT THESE MINI-STATES COULD
NOT SURVIVE HENCEFORTH. THE WORLD HAS NOW TURNED INTO GREAT
BLOCS. LUCKILY A GREAT POLITICAL, ECONOMIC, AND MILITARY
BLOC HAS EMERGED BESIDE US -- NAMELY THE EEC THIS BLOC MIGHT
BECOME A SINGLE STATE IN 1992. THIS HAS PROVOKED US AND HAS
BROUGHT HOME TO THE ARABS THAT THE WORLD HAD INDEED TURNED
INTO GREAT BLOCS. ((PASSAGE OMITTED REITERATING THEME,))
IF THE UNITY OF THE MAGHREB IS NOT A STEP TOWARD ARAB
UNITY, IT WIL BE INCOMPLETE, AND IT MIGHT EVEN HARM THE ARAB
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UNITY AS A NATION, BECAUSE THE COLONIALISTS ARE TRYING TO
.PREVENT THE ARAB NATION FROM BEING THE SAME NATION. FOR
TIME THE COLONIALISTS HAD BEEN TALKING ABOUT THE UNITY OF
THE FERTILE CRESCENT, THE UNITY OF THE NILE VALLEY, THE
UNITY OF THE MAGHREB IN ORDER TO INCITE THE POPULISTS WHO
DID NOT BELIEVE THAT THEY WERE ARABS. THEY HOPED TO SEE A
POPULIST MOVEMENT SET UP A NON-ARAB STATE IN NORTH AFRICA,
ANOTHER NON-ARAB STATE IN THE NILE VALLEY, AND A THIRD STATE
IN THE FERTILE CRESCENT. THE OBJECTIVE OF ALL THESE UNITIES
WAS TO SEE THE POPULIST NON-ARAB DEFEAT THE ARAB. OBVIOUSLY
THERE IS A BIG FALLACY WITH REGARD TO THE BERBERS IN THE
ARAB HOMELAND; THEY ARE ARABS, ESPECIALLY IN NORTH AFRICA.
WE DO NOT CONSIDER THEM A MINORITY. I DO NOT KNOW HOW THIS
TOPIC IS DEALT WITH IN ALGERIA. WE DO NOT CONSIDER THE
BERBERS A MINORITY. THE MINORITY IS THE ONE THAT DOES NOT
BELONG TO THIS NATION; IT IS A MINORITY OF A DIFFERENT RACE,
SUCH AS THE KURDS OR THE ARMENIANS -- THEY ARE MINORITIES.
AS FOR THE BERBERS, THEY ARE PRE-ISLAM ARABS, CONSEQUENTLY
WE CANNOT CONSIDER THEM A MINORITY AT ALL. THE HISTORICAL
EVIDENCE AND TESTIMONIES CONFIRM THE BERBERS' ARABISM.
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