President Saddam Husseins Message to the Urgent Arab Summit Conference, Cairo 21-22/October/2000.
The labour manifested by the Arab nation through the Great Uprising bearing the banner of the people has materialized as a sign indicating the right road and as a stream of light pointing to the nation's potential to be better in more than one Arab country. This stream of light represents the whole Arab nation or points to its potentials which are detained by factors that need not be mentioned to anyone, foremost of which is that which we have referred to in connection with its rulers. The Arab Intifada has come. The Arab masses have filled the streets from the farthest Arab East to the farthest Arab West and from the Atlantic Ocean to the Arab Gulf. In their tremendous rage, ignited by the Intifada of our Arab Palestinian freedom fighters, the fuse which has exploded the revolution, the Arab masses wanted to tell all of those who are hesitant, double dealers and cowards among the rank and file, and even among those who speak with Arab tongues but whose hearts are locked towards the Arabs but open to the enemies of the nation...(he rambles) (snip)
The main issue which should come first among the issues to be discussed thoroughly by the Summit, for he who ignores it will be ignoring the whole Arab nation, is Palestine: the stand towards it, the stand towards its Zionist occupants and how we express the potential and legitimate stand of the nation truthfully, honestly and confidently. (snip)
Iraq's stand in this issue has been obvious for a long time. We reiterate it here now. If he who represents Iraq in any Arab or non-Arab gathering, whether official or popular, ignores the stand of his people in Iraq, he will be like one ignoring the will of this truthful, loyal and striving people, besides ignoring the principles on which the Glorious 17-30 July Revolution was founded after this great people had sacrificed lines and lines of martyrs and wounded before the altar of its march. We do not think that any honourable person among the whole of our Arab nation ignores this stand or denies it. (snip)
On the basis of this, and as an expression of the conscience of the nation and the people, the manifest stand of Iraq is the call and endeavour to liberate Palestine through jihad. For jihad alone is capable of liberating Palestine and the Arab lands occupied by the filthy Jews in their freak Zionist entity. Jihad through fighting is the right description and the firm basis for him who trusts in Allah and endeavours to liberate Palestine with all that supports and facilitates his mission in all its aspects and to the depth of its mobilization. Any other description will remain short of restoring Palestine, the whole of Palestine, releasing al-Quds and its Mosque from captivity and liberating the other occupied Arab lands. Our saying that any other description of jihad save that of fighting the band of evil in Palestine and inflicting defeat upon them, will fall short of the mark as it is but a softened description of any other alternative...<snip>
We, in Iraq, say that the Arabs are capable of following a policywhich will make America turn away from its biasesupport of the Zionist entity at the expense of the Arabs. This policy will be supported by the policy of mobilizing potentials and capabilities and alerting and organizing eagerness on the road of jihad for liberation. It is not the policy of lowering themselves before America and getting along with it. When will that be possible? It will be possible when the Arabs harmonize with themselves and with their principles, when their insistence on liberation becomes manifest and when they meet harm with harm on the doctrine of eye for eye, tooth for tooth and wounds equal for equal. When America chooses as it does now to harm the Arabs through its bias to the Zionist entity, and when the Arabs decide not to secure for America its interests and to neglect its views and stop any cooperation with it in all fields, or in certain fields, America then will change its stand-- and it will change it in a short time. (snip)
The Arabs are the aggrieved party. Their sanctuaries are wronged. They are daily killed at the hands of the Zionists. He who wants their friendship, should not take sides with their enemy to strengthen him against them. If he does so, he deserves to be confronted by the potentials of the Arabs, of which Allah has given them plenty and has also given them great high-mindedness and great trust in their people. If America resorts to arms besides Zionism, we must raise arms against it while we are on our land. An aggrieved party cannot be defeated while on his own land and amongst his own people. Great Allah will help him and America will be defeated. And before it announces its defeat, those in charge of its affairs will force their people to be separated from the Zionist entity. (snip)
HE is the liar.
