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"We are the enemies of one another, I'm sad to say. We all hate one another, we deceive one another, we gloat at the misfortune of one another, and we conspire against one another. Our intelligence agencies conspire against one another, instead of defending us against the enemy. We are the enemies of one another, and an Arab's enemy is another Arab's friend. If only we used such ferocity against the enemy... " "We meet in Syria, which is an Arab country. But the relations Syria has with Russia, Iran, or Turkey are a thousand times better than its relations with its Arab neighbors. The relations that Libya has with Italy are a thousand times better than its relations with its neighbors, Egypt and Tunisia. This is the situation of the Arabs." - Mu'ammar Al-Qadhafi (translated to English courtesy of the controversial MEMRI).
While I am certainly no fan of the Libyan dictator Mu'ammar Al-Qadhafi, who is suspected of being behind the disappearance of a very well known and respected Muslim Lebanese leader, Imam Musa Al-Sadr, the man did give a speech at the last Arab League summit in Syria that really should have hit home for Arabs of all walks of life and most especially the Arab leaders, whether they were in attendance at the conference or not. A number of them were not in attendance; possibly because they were busy conspiring against some of the other Arab leaders who were in attendance at the summit?As I was watching Qadhafi speak, the cameras would focus from time to time on an Arab leader or representative, and the expressions on their faces went from expressionless to uncomfortable smirks of conformity. I know that I certainly related to that speech and I know many other Arabs by birth who also related to it, even though they, like me, have no personal love, trust, or even like for Qadhafi. Aside from whatever his intentions were for giving such a speech, and we might correctly suspect it was at least partially based on some selfish or paranoid motives stemming from a dictatorial background, Qadhafi brought forth in his speech the sad state of many of the leaders of the Arabs and through them the Arab people.See the full content of this document
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Arabs Are the Enemies of One Another
"We are the enemies of one another, I'm sad to say. We all hate one another, we deceive one another, we gloat at the misfortune of one another, and we conspire against one another. Our intelligence agencies conspire against one another, instead of defending us against the enemy. We are the enemies of one another, and an Arab's enemy is another Arab's friend. If only we used...
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