AL-QADHDHAFI ADDRESS

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But I would like to say from the~ Yama riyah, which has become the headquarters of
resistance against imperialism, y lonial: and Zionism, that this land will always be
LD012120 Tripoli Domestic Service in Arabic 1744 GMT 1 Sep 81
[Speech by Libyan Leader(Mu'ammar al-Qadhdhafi t a workers rally at Al-Khadra Square in
Tripoli, on the occasion of the 12th annivers y of the Libyan revolution--live]
[Excerpts] In the name of God. Free Libyan people: It is our duty at this immortal
hour, in which we are celebrating the 12th anniversary of the historic Great al-Fatah
Revolution, to greet the friendly and sister delegations sharing with us these celebrations.
I greet President Oueddei Goukouni president of the Republic of Chad and leader of the
Chadian national liberation movement, Frolinat, leader of the Chadian revolution, we
greet him and we thank God that the 12th anniversary of Great al-Fatah Revolution comes
when the Frolinat revolution has triumped and Chad has become free and united. We should
like to stress again today that our fingers are still on the trigger, we are quite ready
to fight any battle in defense of the Chadian revolution and in defense of the fraternal
Chadian people and in defense of the integrity of Chadian soil. We once more stress to
the world that the security of Chad is linked with the security of Libya, that Chadian
soil is an extention of Libyan soil and Libyan soil is an extention of Chadian soil; that
the Libyan and Chadian peoples are but one people who have been united by common history,
geography, kinsmanship and faith. We, while greeting President Goukouni Queddei, the
leader of Frolinat revolution, address a warning from here this evening to all those who
believe that encroaching on Chadian borders or imposing a war on Chad is an easy matter,
as easy as making statements to the press or as easy as having a drink in pubs. We
address a warning to the filthy, vile and mean agent Numayri: We address a strong warning
to him. On this day, the trans-Saharan tracks are ready to take the troops to Chad at
any moment should the security of Chad be threatened. Since Chadian security is linked
with that of Libya, Libya will fight to the last man and woman or triumph in defense of its
security, in defense of its neighbors, in defense of its (word indistinct] and in defense
of freedom everywhere.
It is also our duty, brethren, to salute a dear African friend who insisted on attending
with you this great anniversary, President Ratsiraka, president of the Republic of
Madagascar--Madagascar which stands in the face of the imperialist expansion in the Indian
Ocean. The forces of the anti-1 September revolution are also surrounding the revolution
of Madagascar and the Island of Madagascar and want to bring it down to its knees and
subject it to imperialist domination so'that they can turn that island into an imperialist
base. But the people of Madagascar, led by President Ratsiraka, the courageous and
progressive revolutionary, are standing fast and with stubborness resisting submission and
American expansion in the Indian Ocean. We must declare our support for them and our
stand with them in the same trench.
Moreover, we salute the dear brother, Daniel Ortega, one of the leaders of the Nicaraguan
revolution and one of the leading members in the Sandinist,. Movement. This courageous
heroic movement resisted the dictatorship of Somoza, which was backed by the forces of
American imperialism. But the revolution of the people of Nicaragua, led by the Sandinist.
Movement and by this hero and his hero colleagues of the Nicaraguan revolution, defeated
Somoza in spite of America--America should not save him while being only a few miles from
its shores.
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Then followed a parade of the various mechanized units of the armed forces headed by
mechanized signal units and reconnaissance vehicles while anti-submarine helicopt~ls
wer"overing over the area.
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transport
also included new vehicles equipped with armour-penetrating missi
etrating portable guns, amphibious armoured transport vehicles,
ehicles equipped with guns and missiles, rocket launchers, som
self-propel
missiles, hi
d field artillery, units of the engineering corps and vari
altitude surface-to-air missiles, four barreled anti-ai
ace missiles and long range missiles. These were fol
surface-to-sur
the administrat
ye affairs and supply, T-72 and T-62 tanks and othe
tanks carriers.
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litary
units of
s anti-aircraft
craft artillery,
wed by units of
The Libyan Arab Na also took part in the military parade anddonducted a naval
display at Tripoli val Port. The military parade held in A Khadra Square lasted
[Speech by PLO Executive Com\ittee Chairman Yasir 'A afat at a workers rally marking the
12th anniversary of the Lib a revolution, at Al-K dra Square in Tripoli--live]
[Excerpts] On this day, on this\glorious annive
in the name of the Palestinian revkutionaries
forces, would like to congratulate a
revolutionaries and the great people
on this day that we are together and sT
be together until victory and until we
Yes, this morning I stood here with my
the Brother Leader Daniel Ortega and
here with you and saw before us the
marched past the platform. In thi
Arab nation, the hope of the rev
er Mu'ammar--my brother the leader Mu'ammar--
ve president of the Republic of Madagascar,
he Jamahiriyah, the armed people, who
s I say victory; I saw the hope of the
is what I saw, Brother Mu'ammar/this morning. I
saw this armed people carrying their
and the Americans, who have tried to
rritorial waters in the Gulf of Sidra.
out an aggression againsft the Jamahiriyah's t
carr
y
I saw them saying from this,6arade: We are here on
his Jamahiriyah land.
Brothers, I have come to you from southern Lebanon, w re the Lebanese fighter is standing
side by side with his brother the Palestinian fighter d with the Syrian soldiers of
the air force. [as heard] We have come here to shake y by the hands and shake the
hands of my Brother Mu'ammar and say to him: We are with you, Brother Mu'ammar, always,
until victory.
Brothers, our path/is difficult and long, particularly in con ronting this imperialist
attack, led by the United States, not against Libya alone, as he aggression against
Libya is an aggression against the Arab nation. Through the ag ression against Libya it
is trying to /ommit aggression against our Arab nation, just as-it is trying to provoke
Syria and as(it pushed its agent Israel in an attempt to dig its nails into the Lebanese-
Palestinian joint forces and against the Lebanese peoples in an attempt to dominate this
Arab region.
sary and at this pan-Arab and inter-
the Great 1 September Revolution, I,
and the joint Lebanese-Palestinian
brother Mu'ammar and your brother
amahiriyah. I would like to say to you
e y side, and this is a promise: We shall always
ikle back Jerusalem.
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Let that be a lesson to the agents of America in Egypt, its agents in the Sudan and
its agents everywhere in the Arab region and in the world. America cannot (?save)
them and it cannot protect them in the face of the people's revolution, in the face of
the popular revolution which fate is bringing to Egypt, to the Sudan, to Somalia, to
Oman and to every land which is under American domination and under reactionary control.
We also salute one of us and not a guest, Yasir 'Arafat, leader of the Palestinian
revolution, representative of the wounded Palestinian people. We tell the.agent As-Sadat,
who is plotting against the Palestinian people, that Yasir 'Arafat, who stands today in
Tripoli, and his brother leaders of the Palestinian resistance, secretaries of the
Palestinian fronts, whom we salute from this platform, they are the ones who have the
decisive word, because it is they who have the Palestinian fighting rifle. When it says
no it means no and if its says yes it is yes. To hell with As-Sadat and with the As-sadat
plot and with the terrorist Begin and with America's plot (?against the Palestinian
people). Here are the Palestinian people, here are the living forces, the fighting forces
which make the Palestinian [word indistinct], Yasir 'Arafat, secretaries of the fronts,
the fighting Palestinian forces, the Palestinian rifle. [as heard] We tell As-Sadat
and his masters and the Israeli terrorists and the American masters you are [word indistinct]
in the sea.
Brethren, we must also salute the sisterly and friendly delegations from Democratic Yemen,
Mauritania, the Sahara, Afghanistan, Portugal, Senegal, Switzerland, Democratic Germany,
Romania, Vietnam, Algeria, Yugoslavia, Guinea, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, Tunisia, Bangladesh,
Brazil, France, Lebanon, Jordan, Djibouti, Poland, Mauritius, Guyana, Benin, Morocco,
people's Hungary, Turkey, Rwanda and the other sisterly and friendly delegations.
Brothers, last year and at this place, while celebrating the 11th anniversary of the historic
Great;:Al-Fatah Revolution, we defined our attitude on that day toward very important and
fateful issues. I said to you on that day last year that unless the Libyan people shoulder
pan-Arab responsibility. together with their Arab nation, I myself will shoulder that
responsibility in my capacity as a fighter and as a fedayeen and as an Arab citizen.
But what happened is that the Libyan people did not disappoint. :They were great and they
were generous. The Libyan people did not disappoint the Arab nation, they were generous
and they were courageous. After that day, the people's congresses all over the Jamahiriyah
decided on the necessity of establishing unity between Libya and Syria -so that
both the Libyan and Syrian peoples can be in the same trench in confronting aggression. I
am ready for unity. At that time Syria responded to the call of unity which was addressed
from here--the popular organizations in Syria, the regional command and the national
command under the leadership of the dear brother and hero President Hafiz al-Asad, the
hero who is standing in the face of aggression and reaction. The Syrian people
declared their response to the call for unity which was addressed to them.
It was expected that the task of historic unity, the unity of challenge, would be
accomplished in the course of last year from 1 September 1980 to 1 September 1981.
But we have to admit that the unity was not accomplished within that period as was
expected by the optimists.
I say that the optimists and the enthusiasts expected unity to take place during last year,
but it did not. The Libyan people decided on unity with Syria and they accepted, through
their people's congresses, all responsibilities and consequences of establishing unity
between Libya and Syria with the geographic challenge, the aggression and the dangers;
it carried within its folds. The Syrian people also responded to the call of unity.
But we admit that regional factors, separatist factors, which strongly influence contem-
porary Arab reality and which affect both the Libyans and the Syrians alike--it seems
that these factors were the reason.
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The second reason was that the executive, practical,'adminstrative and technical
measures for the implementation of the unity decision of the Libyan and Syrian peoples
were left to employees, to technicians and administrators, and perhaps to (?secessionists)
and opportunists, in both countries. I do not care about anyone since I am talking about
a fateful issue.
Once again I say now that the Libyan people must move to achieve unity and the Syrian
people, with their party and popular organizations, must move to achieve unity and not
leave unity' to be determined by the leaderships or administrations or to any hesitant person
or regionalist, to a secessionist or to a coward. The coward cannot take any unity
measures; the regionalist and the secessionist cannot achieve unity. If this unity is
to be achieved for the Arab national in Syria and Libya and in the entire Arab homeland,
then this will be the beginning of the end of regionalism and secessionism between the
ocean and the Gulf, and this unity between Libya and Syria will be the cornerstone in
the building of the desired greater Arab unity which we dream about generation after
generation. If this unity is the unity of fighting for the liberation of the Golan,
Palestine and Jerusalem, the unity of removing borders and dams between the sons of the
single nation; if this unity is the unity of challenge, the challenge of the Arab will;
if this unity is a challenge to the Israelis and to the Americans and the reactionaries,
and proves that this nation is one nation [words indistinct], the establishment of unity
between the Libyan and the Syrian people, one situated in Asia and the other in Africa;
and if this unity is established in a manner proving that the Arab nation is one nation,
the Arab people are one people, the Arab homeland is one homeland--if the unity is all
this then it means life, history, future and destiny. Then a courageous and challenging
mass movement must take place, Syrian and Libyan, that will achieve unity. Impose it on
Mu'ammar al-Qadhdhafi, impose it on Hafiz al-Asad, impose it on the regional and national
command and on the popular organizations, on the trade unions and even on the conferences
[word indistinct] and the Libyan popular committees. I hesitated in welcoming the Syrian
delegation and found it strange to place it on the list of guests because we have taken
the unity decision between the two countries. Nevertheless, we welcome this delegation
once more.
As?for the other fateful and serious issues which this fateful, serious and historic
decision entails--the decision of unity--a call was made for this unity on this day
last year, that the Libyans should move to take part side by side and shoulder to
shoulder with the Lebanese and the Palestinians to confront aggression. What did happen
is that the Libyans responded to the call and came forward by the hundreds and thousands
to volunteer on the side of the Lebanese National Movement and the Palestinian resistance.
The world knows that some of the Libyans fell martyrs in Ad-Damur, in An-Nabatiyah, in
Tyre and Sidon and in the trenches of the Palestinians while confronting aggression
The Libyans are still ready. I find them in universities, at schools and institutes, in
factories, in towns and villages--I meet them in all these places. They ask me for
immediate facilities to enable them to volunteer to fight on the side of the Palestinian
people. Thus, the Libyans have fulfilled the pledge they made when I told them: Either
you fight or [word indistinct] call myself a fighter.
The balance of military strength has changed considerably since last September because of
Libyan arms entering the battle on the side of the Palestinian revolution and its allies.
We would like to say to the Israeli settlers: Donot expect to live in security forever,
because you are occupying others' land; you are occupying Palestinian towns: If you have
lived in tranquillity for the past 30 years this does not mean that you will continue to
do so.
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This year Palestinian guns and missiles reached you: The Palestinian missiles and guns
will not retreat until the full liberation of Palestinian soil: We are behind the Palestinians
as is the Arab nation: We shall urge on fighting until complete liberation. Volunteering
to fight on the side of the Palestinian resistance must continue to make these slogans come
true and liberate Palestine by blood: The Pan-Arabism of the fedayeen action must become a
reality on Lebanese and Palestinian territory. I urged the youth of Democratic Yemen to open
recrutiing offices and fight with their Libyan, Palestinian and Lebanese brothers against
the usurping Israeli enemy.
Bretheren, this is the stage of applying all slogans and chants which the Arabs have reiter-
ated and which have echoed in the Arab world. This is the stage of seriousness, the stage
of fedayeen, the stage of genuine fighting. This is the stage of applying all slogans raised
for unity and liberation. This is the stage of seriousness, the stage of fighting, the
stage of fedayeen, the stage of blood and fire, because the enemy has gone beyond the
limit and the Arab nation is in danger--the Arab homeland is in true danger--America is
establishing military bases in Egypt, in the Sudan, in Somalia and in Oman; Israeli colonial-
ism under the American umbrella is [words indistinct] Egypt and yields to its will diverting
Nile water to the Negev Desert. It alters the Koran and changes the [words indistinct]
brethern by force because of the 1973 defeat when the Israeli enemy defeated and imposed
its will on Egypt. The Israeli enemy imposed on Egypt [words indistinct] the Nile Valley
to the Negev Desert so he could absorb 2 million more Israelis in the occupied territory
who would live on the Nile water. The Egyptian people are urged to make a dam out of their
children before the Nile Valley so the water will not reach the Negev Desret. Diverting
water from the Nile is a shame and a disgrace. [chants]
Bretheren, we shall continue to urge the Arab youths from the ocean to the gulf to fight
for the sake of Palestine--to fight against America, to fight against any obstacles which
prevent establishing Arab unity and liberating Arab land, just as I have urged on the Libyan
youths who came forward to fight and the Libyan [words indistinct] in Lebanon and along the
Palestine borders. Recently I called upon the youths of Democratic Yemen and we shall con-
tinue to call upon the Arab youths untilthe slogan "The pan-Arabism of the fedayeen action
and the pan-Arabism of the battle" is achieved.
Brethren, nothing is more important now than urging the Arab nation to fight, to confront
aggression and to destroy the wall of fear. To hell with America, Israel and their traitorous
agents. [chants of "To hell with America"]
Thousands of Palestinians living in Libya are invited to volunteer for fighting; thousands
of Palestinians live in Libya but do not participate in the fight. The mobilization of these
Palestinians in Libya will start tomorrow; thousands of Palestinians must go to Palestine
[words indistinct]. Yasir 'Arafat and the secretaries of the Palestinian fronts and other.
[words indistinct] must receive the volunteers and urge all sons of the Arab nation to
volunteer.
Brethren, Palestine is the land of all Arabs; the battle is the battle of all Arabs; the
enemy is the enemy of all Arabs--not just the enemy of the Palestinians. What happened
after Palestine was occupied? Egypt was occupied; Jordan and Syria were occupied; Lebanon
was occupied; and the rest of the Arab countries were hit. It is inevitable that we all
must confront this enemy. Let the Arab youths in Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, Mauritania,
occupied Egypt, Sudan and the rest of the Arab homeland hear: This is your common enemy; this
is a usurped land.
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Tomorrow the mobilization of thousands of Palestinians will start so they can go to the
front--from Libyan territory to Palestinian territory. The Palestinians must be-provided
with all the facilities and guarantees of help to perform this sacred mission.
In addition to participating with the Palestinian revolution and the realization of Arab
unity through Arab revolution, I am also committed to participate in the' revolutions in
Nicaragua, Guatemala, El Salvador, Namibia and to fight U.S. colonialism everywhere. The
United States must be smashed on the rock of the people's resistance.
Brothers, we have to understand that there is neither the possibility of nor any use in
coming to an understanding with the U.S. Government. Let everyone know that it is no use
and there is not even the possibility of coming to an understanding with the United States.
We have tried all cordial and peaceful methods to no avail in the face of the power madness
which has infected America, in the face of the crusade spirit which has penetrated deep
into American society, in the face of its deep historic hatred of Islam, the Arabs, the
(?Orient) and all peoples seeking freedom.
Brothers, we accuse the United States of being hostile to Semitism, hostile to [word
indistinct]; the Semites are the Arabs and the United States is hostile to the Arabs,
hostile to Semitism. The United States is also very rancorous toward Islam and it approves
only of the Islam of wine, palaces and slave girls, as is the case now in some Muslim
countries. This constitutes an insult to the Prophet Mohammad, to God, to the Koran and
to Islam.
The United States is waging crusades against Islam and it only accepts the falsification
of Islam and the alteration of the Koran as happened with [words indistinct]. Now As-Sadat
has agreed to alter the verses of the Holy Koran, the verses in which God scolds the Jews.
As-Sadat has agreed to alter these verses and has banned their recital in the mosques or their
being taught to students.
Yes, the U.S. 6th Fleet, by attacking the Gulf of Sidra, represents a new crusade against
Islam, against the Arabs and Muslims. Let the Muslims everywhere hear: The United States
is leading a crusade. We declare that we shall stand up against the new crusade courageously.
We will stand up against the 6th and other U.S. fleets. We shall defeat the new crusades.
Brothers, it has become our duty to consolidate this international solidarity with the Libyan
people and charge Libya with the task of becoming the international headquarters of the
resistance against imperialism. I personally have a duty to place all my abilities with the
Palestinian revolution against racist Zionism; and with the revolution in El Salvador, in
Guatemala, and in Nicaragua against American imperialism; and with Angola and the people of
Namibia against the racist colonialism supported by U.S. forces in South Africa. We shall
fight it everywhere, brothers. We shall fight it everywhere after being convinced that it
is impossible for us to reach any peaceful understanding with the United States because
the United States is suffering from megalomania and has become an outlaw as far as inter-
national law is concerned.
We want to tell the world today, before the representatives of the foreign countries, the
international delegations and the representatives of the international press, that the
report which the U.S. President submitted to the world in the form of a memo--to the states
of the world and to the Security Council and to the General Assembly, and at the emergency
meeting of NATO on the day when the aggression took place on the Gulf of Sidra--this memo
has no basis of truth, and the U.S. President has lied to the world and told them that Libya
has decided to extend its territorial waters to 200 miles. This is a lie. I declare today
for the whole world to hear and from a position of responsibility, that the U.S. President
is lying.
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The President has received the world and presented a report, a deceitful report, about the
events which took place in the Gulf of Sidra. I would like to say that Libya has not ex-
tended its territorial waters to 200 miles at all. The foreign ambassadors and the repre-
sentatives of the international press should put this responsible statement on record, as
this is the truth which refutes the lie and the irresponsible and cheap words of the U.S.
President. I would like to say that Libya has not decided that its territorial waters go
as far as 200 miles. Libya, like all members of the international community, insists on
12 miles as territorial waters, despite the fact that there is no principle which determines
this issue as yet. Libya insists on 12 miles, as do the other members of the international
community. As for the Gulf of Sidra, it is part of the Libyan mainland. We shall defend
it ourselves--it will be transformed into a red gulf if necessary. The Gulf of Sidra does
not mean that the territorial waters have been extended to 200 miles.
Malta believed the lie of the U.S. President. The U.S. President deceived Malta in order
to ensure his own interests sacrificing in the process the interest of the Maltese people,
the fraternal friends of the Libyan people--the Maltese people who know full well the
assistance which the Libyan people gave them and the Libyan people's readiness today and
even tomorrow to stand by the Maltese people and support the neutrality and independence
of Malta. We are the ones who have given assistance, generous assistance, to the Maltese
people. We are the ones who have reaffirmed Malta's independence and its neutrality, and
not the U.S. President, who wants Malta to be a base for the U.S. 6th Fleet and wants to
turn it into a battlefield, as it was during the World War II when it was destroyed in a
war in which it had no interest. The U.S. President wants to bring back destruction to the
Island of Malta in a new war.
He misled Malta and told it that Libyan territorial waters had been extended to 200 miles;
this would have meant that Malta is within Libyan territorial waters. Listen to this lie
from a person who is supposed to be responsible. But no one like this U.S. President
can be responsible: He was born to be an insignificant and unsuccessful actor; all his
acting dealt with the smuggling of funds outside America; how could he become the president
of the greatest state on Earth? What a comedy--the comedy of the 20th century, the
absurdity of the 20th century, the triviality of the 20th century.
Today we address the fraternal friendly Maltese people and we say to them that the Libyan
territorial waters facing Malta extend only to 12 miles from the Libyan shores. Whoever
told you that the Libyan territorial waters have extended to 200 miles to include the Maltese
island of Kemmuna is a liar. Such a lie can only be told by a brazen face, the face of the
U.S. President.
We say that the problem is not that of territorial waters, because Libya did not extend
its territorial waters at all. The problem is one of U.S. strategy, which is bent on
crushing the revolution, on killing freedom, on subjugating the world to imperialist
domination. This is the problem, brothers. The United States wants to control the strategic
positions in the world and all the energy sources. It wants to enable its forward base,
Israel, to dominate the Arab homeland on its behalf and enable the racist Zionist nationalism
to replace Arab nationalism.
Brothers, this the U.S. policy in the world: dominating all the seas, all the oceans and
all the continents and also the sources of power in the world. America wants to sacrifice
all the peoples so as to [words indistinct] of the globe. This is its policy in the world.
As for its policy in the Arab region, it is saturated with a crusade-like spirit--the
new [word indistinct] crusade-like spirit, as I have said. There is a right of jihad from
Indonesia to Nigeria against the new American crusades.
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This campaign in the Gulf of Sidra, in addition to it being a part of the U.S. strategy
to dominate the world, is motivated in this region with a crusade-like spirit: It is
a crusade just like that of Louis IX. The battle took place in the Gulf of Sidra. The
Gulf of Sidra is internal waters, a part of Libyan sovereignty. We are prepared to die
for the Gulf of Sidra and turn it into a red gulf, if need be, as I have said--and I
repeat this now and assert it.
Brothers, we say to the world that the United States is playing with fire. We declare
that should the U.S. 6th Fleet or other U.S. force return to the Gulf of Sidra, which
we have decided to make part of the Libyan [word indistinct], we shall engage in fighting
with the air force, the navy and missiles against the U.S. fleets, regardless of conse-
quence, regardless of what disaster comes after that.
Brothers, we warn the peoples of Western Europe, and in particular the people of Sicily
and Crete, the peoples of Greece and Turkey, that the United States, which is playing with
fire,, will cause a disaster for these peoples. We warn all the peoples of the Mediterranean
that if the United States attacks us on the Gulf of Sidra we shall deliberately attack the
nuclear missiles and bases and the United States will cause a nuclear disaster in the
Mediterranean. The United States will be responsible for this grave disaster which might
happen at any time. Yes, brothers, the U.S. 6th Fleet carries missiles with nuclear
warheads. When this fleet attacks us we shall attack the units which carry the missiles
and which do not have the missiles and we shall not distinguish between nuclear dumps and
other arms dumps. If the U.S. bases in Western Europe and the Mediterranean countries
take part in this attack and support this attack it will be our right, in self-defense,
to attack these bases if we have the military means to reach these bases. Let Sicily
hear, let Crete, Greece and Turkey and Western Europe hear. They are in danger and the
United States is placing these peoples in danger. Today we salute the German people, who
as of yesterday began to respond to incitement and embarked on attacking the U.S. airbases.
For 2 days the explosions have been continuing at the U.S. airbases.
Brethren, the Libyans must take this matter seriously. Some Libyans said there is no
American threat, no American 6th Fleet, and that this is mere propaganda [words indistinct].
Some shortsighted people who did not take the matter seriously wanted to believe that the
story of the clash with the 6th Fleet was a myth and not true. How many times did I warn
you and tell you--and I told the journalists and I told you and the world that I consider
it possible at any moment for a clash to occur between Libya and America. Before the
clash occurred how many times did I say it? Why? Because I know that America wants to
enter the territorial waters, it wants to enter the Gulf of Sidra, which is territorial
waters, internal waters. We cannot possibly let America enter, America or anyone else.
We anticipated an American folly that would lead to war. Now it has been confirmed to
all that America is prepared to enter a war with Libya; it is prepared to enter terri-
torial waters and accept the (?consequences).
I stress this anew, because how many times in the past did our planes and theirs inter-
cept each other at the mouth of the Gulf of Sidra. However, in the past they did not
enter the Gulf of Sidra. In minutes and seconds flying clashes take place. Together with
them we were continuously on the contact line, the entrance to the Gulf of Sidra. Every
month or two they carry out maneuvers. We drew the attention of the world to this but
no one would pay attention. We draw its attention once more because any further folly
will cause a disaster in the Mediterranean. As-Sadat laughs. The reasons [words indis-
tinct] disaster. The first one is to remove the map because his country is involved in
the battle, because it is an American sphere of influence, because it is an American
base. [sentence as heard]
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Brothers, we sent representatives and mediators, we sent notables so that America....
[sentence as heard] Why the enmity between America and Libya? [Words indistinct] I
told them that I was leaving for such and such a place. The U.S. President appears with
a cowboy gun and then we are supposed to have a duel.
If the matter is a personal one, Al-Qadhdhafi as Al-Qadhdhafi and they start thinking of
how to get rid of A1-Qadhdhafi personally, then this is their latest foolishness. We do
not want to add to what Major 'Abd as-Salam said yesterday at the solidarity conference.
The latest thing now is the American superpower is thinking about killing Al-Qadhdhafi
with poison. The latest thing is that the House of Representatives has summoned the
intelligence people and the CIA and the American electronic computers. They told them
that this is the way to get rid of Al-Qadhdhafi. They said there is no other way but
to kill him with poison. This is the latest in American ingenuity [words indistinct]
Reagan. How is the poison to be administered? Like the mice and the cat with bells
around its neck, but they found no one to put the bells around the cat's neck.
The truth is that the scandal of the assassination was published by NEWSWEEK--they have
problems at home and they expose each other. The scandal of the assassination by poison-
ing, the latest sound plan, was exposed by the Washington POST. The Washington POST
wrote about it. It said that after the plan for assassination by poison was formulated,
they tried to find someone to administer the poison. They said that efforts should be
made to find someone close to Al-Qadhdhafi to give him a drink of water or something and
put the poison in the drink. They asked the Central Intelligence Agency about the poison.
The Agency said: Yes we have poison, but a decision, which was issued in 1978, prohibits
the use of this poison for assassination purposes. If you allow us then we shall use it.
They asked: How effective is this poison? The Agency replied: 2 days after taking the
poison he will have symptoms of fever, as if he is suffering from a virus infection and
no one will imagine that he has died from poison. They wanted Reagan to issue instruc-
tions permitting the use of this kind of poison which was banned in 1978, just once, to
carry out this great U.S. mission.
At any rate, all this has become a joke being told and retold by the whole world. I do
not fear death. You should not fear America. The most important thing is that we have
made every effort to convince the Libyans that there is no alternative to death at any
given hour in the Gulf of Sidra. Popular and nonpopular delegations, intermediaries,
foreigners and others went to the United States: We went to all states and asked them
to mediate with the United States so that we might have normal relations with the United
States. We did not want to be enemies or friends [as heard] with the United States. We
wanted to have diplomatic relations with the United States, and if there was any room for
mutual interests then we would welcome it. But the United States insists that there should
be no relations as long'as there is revolution in Libya. They said that we should abandon
the question of Palestine: They told us not to stand by the Palestinian resistance, nor
with the Lebanese National Movement, nor with Syria, nor with the people of Namibia. nor
with the question of freedom. They told us: You should leave Chad to be occupied by the
United States. You should bring the popular war, the civil war, back to Chad. They told
us not recognize Goukouni Oueddei as president of Chad. They said: Take him back to
Libya to be as he was before. This indicates that the United States, which knows that we
are revolutionaries and free and do not retreat in Chad or Namibia or Palestine--in fact
we have decided to die on these fronts, men and women, let the whole world hear this--these
are the Libyans, let the United States hear this: This is not what Mu'ammar is saying
but what the Libyans themselves are saying--they are ready to die. [sentence as heard]
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Therefore, brothers, we should rest: Do not have any ambition of reaching an understanding
with the United States, because it is the United States which has decided to consider you
as (its) number one enemy, has decided to occupy your territory, has decided to enslave you.
The United States is neither prepared to establish a friendly relationship with the Libyan
people nor is it prepared to have a normal relationship. The United States has decided
to clash with the Libyan people, to overthrow the Libyan people, to humiliate the Libyan
people, so that it can reach other parts of the Arab homeland. We are standing up to the
United States. Regrettably, we have to accept the established fact that the United States
is a real enemy and is not prepared to come to any understanding.
Furthermore, the United States wants to invade Libya militarily. The 6th Fleet, when it
was in the Gulf of Sidra, was planning for an attack on Benghazi. This means that the
United States wanted to forcefully invade Libya openly. In return, we can only declare
that we have decided to die and if the United States wants to take over Libya without
people, there will be an Arab nation which will oppose it. We will be able to repel the
United States, to defeat the United States as it was defeated in the Gulf of Sidra. Then,
brothers, when you face such a power as the United States you will realize that there is
no comparison between the Libyan and the U.S. military forces: The United States is a
superpower and the most powerful state on earth. We are a small state and we can decide
to die, but this does not mean that we can match U.S. military forces.
We want to say calmly: We are a small state but we have a considerable military force.-
not when compared with the United States, but a small state which has armed people and
long-range missiles. We have hundreds of types of aircraft, tanks, guns and all modern
conventional weapons. We have considerable defense power in the region, at least in North
Africa and the Middle East. But there is no comparison between us and the United States,
which has atomic bombs, ICBM's and satellities. But a small stone can stop and damage
a big machine. Libya can be a stone in the U.S. kidney; it can be a stone in the U.S.
machine, causing damage; it can be an eyesore to the United States; it can be a small
[word indistinct] that enters a large body and make it sick, perhaps causing it to die.
Nevertheless, it is not a simple matter for the United States to attack Libya militarily.
Why? Because regardless of how small Libya is compared with the United States, it can
deal some blows either to aircraft carriers or to U.S. bases in Europe or to U.S. naval
or air force units, or it can cause a disaster. We shall act as a small people who were
victims of a great power. If the great power does not respect humanity's law or rules which
we respect, then we will be free from all considerations, acting (?as) mad people and with
all stupidity.
America did not treat us in a friendly manner. If there was a difference regarding the
Gulf of Sidra, for example, if we accept that there was a difference regarding a sea area,
then the United States should have gone to the United Nations, to the International Court
of Justice: There is a law of the sea. But from the very first day it came with force,
with aircraft. This means that we are living in a jungle where international law is no
longer respected. Therefore, when America confronts us we should not discriminate between
a civilian and a soldier; atom and nonatom; near and far: We should then shut our eyes
and think about our children and say: On our heads and the heads of our enemies. The
Libyans, the United States and peoples of the Mediterranean should realize this. [slogans
and shouts] .
At the same time, the United States is not alone: The United States is a member of NATO.
Had it not been for U.S. facilities and bases in Western Europe -- which is a member of
NATO--the United States would not have been able to stay in the Mediterranean and have a
free hand. The truth is that the U.S. forces do not leave from the United States but from
its allies' territories--from Sicily, Crete, Germany, Italy, Greece, Turkey and Britian.
The United States, despite its strength, is a member of an alliance which includes Western
Europe.
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The United States is in need--the United States, the great superpower--of allies
militarily. Therefore, it is correct to say that we Libyans--a small revolutionary state
which the United States and NATO stand against--need allies militarily as well. The
Libyans should realize what a serious phase we are in. If the U.S. superpower--the number
one power--needs military allies, then why can't Libya--the small state confronting the
United States, which has the atomic bomb and NATO--need allies as well? For this reason
we desperately need to be in military alliances with any ally who will stand by us
against the United States. In war there is no neutrality. Those who remain neutral
during war are capitulators who raise white flags so armies of both sides can cross
their territory. Belgium, Luxembourg and Holland were neutrals during previous world
wars. The neutral territories became a bridge over which the invading armies crosses.
Neutrality became mere capitulation.
There is no such thing as neutrality during a time of war or in a widescale confrontation
such as the one now between Libya and the United States. If a world war breaks out there
will be nothing called neutrality, because if you are neutral then you would raise a white
flag and capitulate. You would be invaded and would have opened your territories to the
invading armies from all directions. You saw Libya when it was neutral during World War II--
now Libyan territories are mined. A great number of Libyans have died in war; their
animals have died in war; and Libyan territories have been destroyed by war. The honor of
Libyans has been violated in war.
The enemy respects only those who are fighting him. There is no neutrality. Now brothers,
we are entering a grave stage. Neutrality becomes [word indistinct]; neutrality to be
reconsidered: (?In wartime) the world is divided into only two parts--there is no third
part. The third part is the bridges for crossing: These white flags; the neutralists
[word indistinct]--this is the third part. In war the world is divided into two parts:
The Libyans have to choose with their free will--through peoples' congresses and with the
instigation of the revolutionary committees--the part on whose side they are to fight.
We adhered to (?serious) positive neutrality. We hope to remain in positive neutrality
and nonalignment and to consolidate and strengthen it: This is our decision--if we remain
free and without pressures and without U.S. challenges, we will remain in positive
neutrality and nonalignment forever. This is our decision [words indistinct]. We do not
look for axes or for war; but the United States reached an extent which made us reconsider
our neutrality. For 12 years we did not allow the ships of our friends to get supplies
at our-ports--12 years after the revolution. Since the outbreak of the revolution we
have not allowed any warship of friends or foes to visit our shores. This meant that we
wanted real neutrality: Even to friends we said we are friends but [words indistinct].
Did the United States say that Libya is a neutral state and must keep it as such and that
we must not make any provocations against it lest it become biased? Never. The United
States exploited our neutrality and attacked us with its 6th Fleet. The United States
(?thinks) that Libya is neutral and therefore it is not a member of an alliance. Therefore,
it has no one to come to its rescue. This is an opportunity to pounce on Libya--Libya,
(?they thought), had no military treaty with anyone and is not aligned to anyone, nor is
it a member in any military alliance. They said Libya is on its own without allies and
is not a member of a military alliance. Therefore, we have to pounce on it quickly.
These words are to be the policy of the future after you study them at the people's
congresses and after you reconsider neutrality.
In the end, our existence is more'important than neutrality. The defeat of our enemy is
the goal and is more important than neutrality. By God, if we were faced by a small state
we would not have any need for alignment or to enter into alliance with others.
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But to be attacked by the United States and with the 6th Fleet, by aircraft carriers and
nuclear missiles [words indistinct]. Therefore we are forced to reconsider our life
[words indistinct). We must know ourselves: Free and neutral and reject alignment, but
after the United States reached this extent we will reconsider this position. Unless
we do so we will be ignorant [word indistinct] and stupid. There is no neutrality. In
case war breaks out we must join (?one of the) camps and fight our enemy: We must join
the enemy of our enemy, because he is our friend.
As to those who took part in the war, sacrificed their lives in the war, fought in the
war, wrote the end of the war with their blood, they have the right for a peace treaty
ending the war. They have the right to demand their dignified positions and stand with
others on equal footing, because they are partners in war--determined the fate of the
war and determined the end of the war and the beginning of the [word indistinct]. We
cannot possibly be the [word indistinct] and we do not raise white flags. We do not allow
our territory if [words indistinct] fought, and then partition it between them. From
the beginning, from now on we decide on whose side to fight.
We are now in need of allies against America, because we do not want to surrender to
America. There is no [word indistinct] surrender to America if you raise the white flag
and surrender to America and get down on your knees to America like As-Sadat, Numayri and
the rest of the stupid and filthy. If you accept a destiny like theirs and give up your
dignity and freedom and nod.your heads before America, [words indistinct] then America
would not fight you. It (?anesthetizes) you without war. It establishes bases, it brings
the American Army to land in the Gulf of Sidra with a welcome. It takes oil and takes up
the strategic positions. The sailors return to visit the shops and brandish empty bottles
of liquor: They did it in 1969 just one day before the revolution.
The American soldier, with his bag of liquor, used to drive drunk in his Chevrolet: He
used to brandish the empty bottle at the Libyan who was crossing the road. America wants
to return anew to humiliate you and to [word indistinct] with the empty cans of beer.
We do not accept such destiny. We cannot turn back at all. America reached this degree,
disregarded international law, the law of the seas, the International Court of Justice,
and the United Nations and ruled immediately by the U.S. 6th Fleet and with weapons.
The matter has therefore become very serious. It has become very serious.
At the forthcoming sessions of the popular committees, I shall personally present to them
the question of discussing Libya's foreign policy and the question of neutrality and our
position in the world.
If the Arab nation were united today, this would have been sufficient. It would be suffi-
cient that we the Arab nation would stand from the gulf to the ocean against America,
because it would then be the third or fourth force in the world. But this is the Arab
reality. Libya is Libya, as if it is a state which [words indistinct]. Even he cannot
cross the borders. If a (?Libyan) crosses the border they would slaughter him. Therefore,
the forthcoming conferences will be on the level of responsibility and we shall attend
them, both men and women--those who cannot attend the first day will attend the second
day and those who cannot attend the second day will attend the third day until all the
Libyans comprehend this question and define their foreign policy. I have no authority.
The authority is for the people. If I had authority we would know how to adopt the
decision, but my decision is that it is the Libyan people who determine their fate.
This is my decision.
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Therefore, if Libya is forced to change its position, the course of events in the
Mediterranean region will change, if not in the whole world. The United States would
be sorry when it would be too late: The United States would inevitably be the loser.
The U.S. citizen will then become sure, that is if this citizen returns to his senses
or rises to the level of other human beings, a person who gives his vote to an insignificant
actor for him to become a president. We respect an actor as an actor and a singer as
a singer, but to become the president of the greatest state on earth is a comedy. I
respect all actors and singers when they stay in their profession. We cannot respect a
president who becomes an actor: It is not his place and we cannot respect him. The
citizen who gives his vote to an actor to become the president of the greatest state shows
by this action that he is very backward and does not understand anything in the world.
This (?insignificant) citizen will then know that U.S. policy is a policy of great gravity
to the U.S. people and that it will bring destruction to the United States.
The Mediterranean, North Africa and Europe must either become neutral or divide into
two sides, because there is danger if only one is neutral in this region where NATO
extends to Turkey. Naturally, we incite the peoples in West Europe, in Turkey and in
Greece to constantly oppose U.S. colonialism in their countries and to attack the U.S.
bases. The German people have woken up. For 2 or 3 days fire has been blazing at
U.S. bases in West Germany where there is no Al-Qadhdhafi or no revolutionary committees.
Nor do the German people accept money. Usually when there is a revolution it is said
Libya gave them money. The German people do not receive Libyan money: The German people
reject American colonialism. America is America and Germany is Germany. America is
colonizing Germany. Now there are fires for 2 or 3 days: These are widespread fedayeen
operations at the U.S. military bases in West Germany. There are no Libyans nor Libyan
terrorists, as they say, nor [words indistinct] or Libyan money, or revolutionary committees.
America has made the decsion that the Arab countries which are friendly to it produce
the-largest quantity of oil at the cheapest prices, so that states will not buy Libyan
and Algerian'oil. But now Kuwait, the Emirates, Nigeria and Gabon have suffered harm.
Now there are friendly contacts taking place which we do not want to confuse. But in
the coming days we shall reveal what is happening. The present situation can no longer
be tolerated. It is a dangerous conspiracy by way of using Arab oil against the Arab
nation. It is a dangerous conspiracy to strengthen the United States--U.S. factories and
U.S. banks. It is a dangerous conspiracy to increase U.S. military support for Israel
to strike against the Lebanese people, the Syrian people, the Iraqi people and the Palestinian
people. This is a dangerous conspiracy, brothers. The United States gives billions of
dollars to Israel--billions of dollars from Arab oil. The United States generously
gives Israel the most modern aircraft, which are being financed by Arab oil. Had it
not been for Arab oil, the United States would be facing killer inflation and unemployment
and its economy would have deteriorated. But Arab oil, regrettably, has saved the United
States From collapse. What kind of an Arab is he who gives such money--billions--to the
United States, the enemy of the Arabs and the enemy of Islam and the protector of Israel?
What kind of an Arab is he? To hell with such an Arab! If Arabism is of this type
then to hell with it. If this is Arabism, which is pro-U.S. and pro-Israel and Anti-Arab,
then to hell with it! [applause]
When Israel carried out air raids on Beirut and killed hundreds of people, our Arab
brothers--the owners of the oil--donated approximately $24 million to the PLO. By
God, I was so surprised and could not believe my ears when I heard the amount. I
thought I had misheard it.
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I thought they meant $24 billion. But in actual fact it was $24 million. This is what
they could donate to Abu 'Ammar [Yasir 'Arafat]. By God, the rich in Libya who used to
exploit the Libyan people used to donate such a sum to [word indistinct]. By God, a
citizen from Saudi Arabia, or from Abu Dhabi, and even from Libya, can donate $24 million
to the people of Palestine. Twenty four million dollars--equal to 8 million dinars.
Our brothers in the Arab Peninsula gave Abu 'Ammar, we thought, $24 billion. I said God
bless them--$24 billion from the Arab oil they gave to the Palestinian people in this .
tribulation. Then. I was told: No, the figure is $24 million--that is, 8 million dinars.
How many millions do the U.S. companies take every year? How many millions? How ma'ay?
They take $36 billion from the Arab oil. Billions. Oh people, the U.S. takes tens of
billions of dollars free from the Arab oil. The United States is poor and needy: It
is living on the charities of the UN relief works administration, a partner-in the
rights of the Muslim Arabs who are truthful to God, which always give alms to the poor
and needy. Poor America. It is entitled to the charities usually given to the needy
and the poor! It is so poor that the Arabs give it alms in billions of dollars every
year! What a joke! As for those who are our kith and kin, and who are in need, and
those who are struggling--the Palestinian people--they take$24 million, that is, 8
million dinars. Tomorrow we will collect.this sum, even if we sell our shoes, and give
it to the Palestinian resistance so that it can return it to those who made the donation.
This is shameful: It is shameful that the Palestinian people should accept this. [applause]
The U.S. made a decision that oil should drown the market and be very cheap so that
Libya, Algeria, Nigeria, Kuwait, the UAE will fall. This is because there are signs of a
rebellion in Kuwait and in the UAE by their governments. These governments are expected
to toe the line. How come the Kuwaiti foreign minister visited the Soviet Union? How
come the amir of Kuwait visited the socialist states? This is a rebellion, a mutiny.
They want these governments to be subdued. How can they make these countries obey orders?
They decided to stop them selling oil. The UAE visits Libya [as heard] and makes statements
supporting Afghanistan. This is rebellion and a mutiny. They have to make these
countries toe the line. How? They prevent them from selling their oil. The Arabs and
Muslims--our brothers in Saudi Arabia, with whom we are still talking in a friendly
manner, particularly now that there are negotiations between us--should realize that
they have either to reduce oil production so that oil prices can be raised, so that we
reach a solution, or this policy will lead to a real tragedy for the Algerian, Libyan,
Kuwaiti, UAE, Nigerian and Gabonese peoples. Nigeria, which is a Muslim state--its
position has collapsed.
The situation in Nigeria now is deteriorating: It used to export 2 million barrels a
day, but now it cannot even export 200,000. It cannot pay salaries: It has oil but
they do not want to buy it. Why? They said Saudi oil is cheap and is flooding the
market. Saudi Arabia produces 12 million barrels a day at $32 a barrel. They said they
will not buy the Libyan oil at $40, nor Algerian and Nigerian oil. The economic
situation in Nigeria is'collapsing now as a result of this policy. Our brothers in
Saudi Arabia--we are drawing the attention of the Arab nation and the Muslim world to
this--are directing their policy against Islam and against the Arabs and the Palestinian
people. It is in the interests of United States and Israel. If there is an Arab and
Islamic conscience it must wake up. Before we reach [words indistinct] and abuse
and before we reach the red line there is still an opportunity for Saudi Arabic to
reconsider its policy.
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We do not interfere in internal affairs, but this policy was greatly harmed the Libyan
people and the Algerian people and the Kuwaiti people and the Gulf people and the
Nigerian people. Otherwise, Saudi Arabia goes and pays billions of dollars which are
frozen in the United States to the Algerian, Libyan, Nigerian and Palestinian people so
as to (?allow) it to continue its oil policy. We have stopped. The companies do not want
to buy our oil: We have our oil in front of us. [Words indistinct] reduce its price.
But the companies said they will not buy Libyan oil because Saudi oil is cheap and flooding
the market. [Words indistinct] the Libyans [words indistinct] prepared for a challenge,
they live for years without oil and they do not reduce the price of oil', They do not
submit or yield.
We are not poor, we are rich. Those who are selling their oil at a cheap price will
become poor tomorrow, but our oil will remain on our land. We are rich: We have reserves,
we have the oil--but we are not selling at a cheap price as the United States wants us
to do.
The general popular committee shall explain this issue to the popular conferences at
their final session of this year. The revolutionary committees must do their best at
the popular conferences to make the popular conferences aware of the gravity of this
period. When the people comprehend the issue they are free to adopt the decision they want.
As for the statement I made on 11 June about the search for joint Arab action against the
common enemy, particularly after the destruction of the Iraqi nuclear reactor, and as a
further development to this statement and in continuation of the same rearch, for joint
Arab action, the relations which were unilaterally severed by Iraq have been restored
and relations with Morocco have also been restored, and we now have a Moroccan Embassy
and a Libyan People's Bureau in Morocco. This is in response to that initiative and a
step toward reaching a joint Arab action. But what is required is not a united Arab
rank, because I personally do not want to be identified with those oil-rich Arabs because
the appearance of such a rank does not encourage one to stand in this rank. I never
search for a united Arab rank because the Arab rank is a rank of contradictions.
[Passage indistinct] one is wearing silk and the other has no clothes on. The one who
wears silk does not permit the one with no clothes to stand by him. Therefore, the united
Arab rank is meangingless and is not required. The united Arab action against
the common enemy--to return the enemy's blow, to check the enemy, to gather as many of
the Arab forces as possible to confront the enemy, this is what I am referring to.
On this basis we shall accept the restoration of relations with Saudi Arabia or any other
state: Without this we do not need relations of this kind. What did we lose when
relations with Saudi Arabia were severed, when Saudi Arabia severed relations with us?
Nothing. We can live without relations with Saudi Arabia or with any other country until
doomsday. We say to the brothers who have restored relations with us: Welcome. We
are still determined to stop the war in the Sahara and see the referendum succeed. We
al.sn:wantto see the Moroccan army leave the fighting in the Sahara and move to fight
in Palestine and see the brave revolutionaries of the Polisario leave the fighting
against the Moroccan Army and join in battle against the Israeli and American enemies.
This is our aim. For this reason we have made and are still making every effort to solve
this problem. We thank the brothers who have responded have taken steps forward. Both
the Moroccan and Saharan sides expressed their desire to negotiate and participate in a
referendum. We are still backing this noble effort.
There is a bloody and bitter problem, the problem of Lebanon. The entire leadership of
the Lebanese National Movement is here on this platform, the leadership of the Palestinian
resistance, official representatives of the Lebanese Government.
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There is no Arab in Lebanon or outside Lebanon who is pleased to see the fighting in
Beirut or elsewhere in Lebanon between Lebanese and Lebanese. There is no honorable
Arab who can accept seeing a Lebanese fighting a Lebanese, and the two being killed by
Israel. I have talked at length about this subject with my Brother president Hafiz
al-Asad, and there is no difference of opinion between him and myself with regard to all
strategic Arab issues. I would like to say that the Palestinian resistance should be
defended and protected and should be allowed to devote itself to the fighting. Any person
who stabs the Palestinian resistance in the back and deprives it of its ability to act is
a traitor. We should discriminate between this traitor and the Israeli and the American
enemies. On this glorious day we salute the Lebanese National Movement.
We are with the Lebanese people, Muslims and Christians alike: We are with the Lebanese
man and woman, both Muslims and Christians. We are with the east and west of Beirut. We
must be prepared to exert any effort we are asked to exert. President Hafiz al-Asad and
I discussed this issue: I found President al-Asad's heart to be with all the Lebanese
and the Palestinians, both Muslims and Christians. But there is also a national issue
and a pan-Arab issue. I say that the Libyans, in agreement with their Syrian brothers,
should enter the Lebanese arena, not as a new party but to resolve the issue so that the
civil war in Lebanon ends and so that the Palestinian resistance in Lebanon is protected;
so that political balance returns to Lebanon; so that the Lebanese Front is cleansed of
traitors; so that peace, unity and security return to Lebanon; and so that Lebanon will
use its potentials with the Arab nation against the common enemy, the Israeli enemy, who,
from behind the Litani and the borders seeks to occupy Lebanon and [words indistinct]
Muslims and Christians.
I believe that it is time that we, as Arabs, enter the battle, enter Lebanon, get control
of the guns that are fighting--fighting against each other--and point them against the
enemy. The red line in the heart of Beirut should be wiped out. West Beirut and east
Beirut should embrace each other. Lebanon is Arab, with its Muslims and Christians.
The enemy wanted to see them fighting. The Syrian Army entered Lebanon in order to end
this civil war, in order to protect the Palestinian resistance, to protect the Lebanese
from each other, to end the civil war and the fighting. Regrettably, the situation is
still tragic, very tragic, and is weakening Lebanon every day.
President Hafiz al-Asad has said that with nationalist guarantees the brothers in Libya
and elsewhere should enter Lebanon: They should help us, the Lebanese and the Palestinians
to solve this problem. The Syrian Army is prepared to withdraw to its positions and
leave the security duty to the Lebanese themselves: It is prepared to withdraw to its
positions facing the enemy, if the problem of Lebanon is solved. Syria is losing in
Lebanon: It gets no benefit from being there. This is because it is protecting the
security of Lebanon and is defending Lebanon. Lebanon should be able to provide its own
security. How can this be achieved? it can be achieved by restoring unity in Lebanon and
returning the Arab army of Lebanon--the Lebanese Army which is composed of Lebanese. I
believe that the traditional sectarian division in Lebanon has gone forever: It has been
burned by bombs. I believe that the bombs of the civil war in Lebanon have burned the
disturbed sectarian equilibrium. I do not believe that there is any person who speaks about
the necessity of having a Maronite president, Druze interior minister, a Sunni defense
minister and so on and so forth. Returning to this situation means a new civil war.
We Libyans, who are concerned with Arab unity and the unity of Arab action and who are
interested in the Palestinian resistance, are at the same time brothers of all Lebanese.
We should give a gift to the Lebanese on the occasion of the 12th anniversary of the
Great al-Fatah Revolution, the revolution of all Arabs.
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The gift should be an initiative that ends the war in Lebanon, protects the Palestinian
resistance and returns the Palestinian resistance to their true positions in confronting
the enemy while the backbone of this resistance is protected. These are the basic
principles we present as a gift to the Lebanese people and to the Arab nation on this
occasion. As for the details: Later. [applause]
During their past sessions the popular conferences decided to elevate our friendship with
certain peoples in the region to the level of alliance: This columinated in our treaty
with Ethiopia and Aden. Those who protested and are disturbed and alarmed by this treaty
include Numayri, As-Sadat, Somalia and Oman. What does this mean? It means that this
treaty is truly in the interest of the Libyan people and against the agents, against
the enemies. It gives the Arab revolutionary forces further strength: It gives the Arabs
further strength in confronting the enemies. Proof of this is the fact that the agents of
America, the agents of Israel, are the ones who protested and were disturbed and alarmed.
Numayri was alarmed, As-Sadat was alarmed, Barre was alarmed, Qabus was alarmed. See the
four examples--the agents of Israel, Israel's bridgehead in the Arab homeland and the
agents of America. It is they who were alarmed at this treaty. It is they who protested
and were disturbed by it. This means that the treaty is in our interests, the interest
of the Arab nation, the interest of Libya, the interest of Aden, the interest of Ethiopia.
This alliance must be widened to become an historic alliance between the Arab nation and
the Ethiopian nation. It is worthy of the Libyan revolution to interpret the genuine
Arab historic revolution; the Libyan revolution is the (?conscience) of the Arab nation
that expresses its aspirations and ambitions to freedom, unity and.happiness. What the
Libyan revolution does is (?fit) for all the Arab masses, is accepted by all the Arab
masses, is supported by all the Arab masses. We are the vanguard of the Arab revolution.
We have supporters beyond the borders--underground. They will come to light one day in
Egypt or in the Sudan, in Somalia, in Oman and in other places, from the Gulf to the
ocean. The Arab who does not pursue this course is a traitor to Arabism.
This alliance, brethren, must be widened to include all the anti-American and anti-Israeli
forces, so that we can defeat America and Israel. We must be determined to defeat aggres-
sion, to defeat the enemy who entered our house and fought us inside our house. America
fought us inside the Gulf of Sidra, leaving Benghazi and Misratah behind it and entering
the [word indistinct]. For security reasons connected with our existence in Libya [word
indistinct], we shall not allow the Gulf of Sidra to be anything but an indivisible part
of the mainland, because the Gulf of Sidra divides Libya into two parts: It enters the
heart of Libya. The Gulf of Sidra is a very sensitive security region for Libya. The
American President said Libya had extended its- territorial waters to 200 miles. Libya
has not extended its territorial waters to 200 miles. Libya adheres to 12 miles. As for
the Gulf of Sidra, it is a very sensitive security region. We shall not allow the entry
of any foreign forces, either Anerican or non-American, into the Gulf of Sidra. We shall
fight them and turn the Gulf into a red gulf, as I have told you. [applause]
On this occasion I would like to salute the 80 states and 240 political organizations
that stood beside Libya against the American aggression. I salute all the political
figures and the prominent cultured figures in the world. This shows that we were right
and America was wrong. Who was left on America's side when 80 states came to*Tripoli;
the United Nations (?stands) by Libya. As this big international group has endorsed, we
shall turn Libya into a world resistance center against imperialism everywhere. [applause]
We shall work with this group that supports us, this overwhelming majority of the world.
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We shall work to incite all peoples to resist America everywhere so that America pays the
price for its aggression against the Arab nation, for belittling the Arab nation and for
establishing bases in Egypt, Somalia, Oman and the Sudan. The United States must regret
its absolute support for the Israeli occupation of Arab territory. We must make the
United States feel sorry some day, after it is too late, for its complete bias for the
Israeli enemy, the enemy of the Arab nation--for its disregard of the Arab nation and
for its'belittling of the Arabs. It takes their oil and then spits on them. America
spits on the Arabs; gets their oil and spits on them. What dignity have the Arab friends
of America? The friends of America are the friends [words indistinct] this is a fact which
all the Arabs must know.
The Ethiopian people are not Arab, but are friends of the Arab nation. Millions took to
the streets and marched'onto Revolution Square in Addis Ababa on the second day of the
aggression in the Gulf of Sidra, supporting the Libyan people against the United States.
They want to make us doubt this friend and dependable ally. If we lose this people--who
on the second day of the aggression went out in their millions supporting the Libyan
people and were ready to die with the Libyan people--if we lose them, will the base
Numayri replace them or [words indistinct].
I have explained to you the situation which has now become grave: a real military con-
frontation with the United States from which there is no retreat--no retreat at the Gulf
of Sidra. Not even one drop of the Gulf of Sidra shall be surrendered or ceded. There-
fore, brothers, our alliance is not only with Ethiopia; it includes all the anti-American
forces. We make our way by challenge, by awareness, by revolution: We befriend those who
befriend us and we become the enemies of those who want to be our enemies. The struggle
is continuing forward until liberation, until unity, until world imperialism is defeated,
brothers.
[Speech by Daniel Ortega, member of the junta of the Prov.Lsional Government of National
Reconstruction of Nica&agua, at a workers rally marki g the 12th anniversary of the Libyan
revolution, at Al-Khadra quare in Tripoli, in Spanish with superimposed Arabic translation--
live]
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separate us, the ocean separates
Jamahiriyah are very united because
which is the heart which rouses the peo
the people of the Jamahiriyah and its
that we condemn the aggressions which
the same aggression which our peopl
because in this month of September
triumph of the Jamahiriyah--we a
managed for the first time to
which made possible the defea
the revolutionary triumph i
factor in making it possib
of our brother Mu'ammar
in the achievement of f
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have suffere
-when with great
has suffered from imperialism. This is
nd suffer on the part of imperialism,
o remember how in 18
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of Yankee intervention at tli
Nicaragua--the participation of
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-Qadhdhafi when he says that the masse
reason we repeat the words
a long way from each other; many kilometers
ite of this distance Nicaragua and the
act and fight with one and the same heart,
le I should like to give a great embrace to
der Mu'ammar al-Qadhdhafi and tell them
iness we celebrate the revolutionary
Nicaragua, also in September,
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