Conflict and Resistance in Libya

I have one question for you.

Why did you wait all this time?

Were you hoping to drive us out of Libya with the little you have?

We fought you.

That's enough.

But didn't your country's destruction matter to you? You are the ones who

are destroying my country.

What would you do if someone occupied your land?

Did you ever consider what your attacks looked like to us?

Ambushes, killings at night, and deception in

the day,

and threats to our farmers. They farm our land. Libya is not your country.

You have no right to it,

not even to a cattle pasture,

no right at all.

Italy has as much right here as any other country.

England has rights in Egypt, France in Tunisia and Algeria,

and Spain in Morocco.

Nor do they have a historical right. We have a right here that goes back hundreds

of years.

Soon you'll strip me of everything, and you want me to

justify your thefts.

No nation has the right to occupy another nation.

We came back here.

That's reality.

Look at this coin.

It's one of the Caesars' coins, and another one was minted in Libya.

You'll find Greek, Turkish, and Phoenician coins

all over Libya,

buried in our sands. Ah, I missed it.

You are shortsighted.

Your glasses,

I think.

The day they brought them to me, I knew you were nearby, in my hands.

My glasses.

We are both your prisoners. I will not be trivial.

Here, take it.

Take it.

Yes, it has a certain antiquity.

But do not try to buy too much with it today.

Your money,

just like your glories, is not eternal.

But I respect your past, and you must respect ours.

We, too, have a history and sciences,

mathematics

and medicine.

During your Dark Ages, we led the world in knowledge.

How many days will you need to arrange your men's surrender?

We will not surrender.

We will win

or die.

And do not think this is the end.

You will have to fight the next generation and the generations that

follow it.

As for me, my life will be longer than

my companion's life.

Why do you think I will hang you?

Perhaps it would be better for me to grant you a pension if

I hang you, I might make a martyr of you,

but I must make an example of you.

You will do nothing to me except what God has decreed for me.

These chains are annoying.

They are

an annoying reality.

Sit down.

Thank you.

You know?

I always hoped that we,

you and I

The two bitter enemies.

One day, we’ll sit together as prisoners.

Let’s look for Caesar, Jarrar.

Omar Mukhtar will not grant you Caesar’s conquests.

I’ve chased you for a long time.

I mean, I know you, and you know me.

An idea.

Can’t we work together for peace?

And today is the day

I work for you.

Aren’t you asking me for your life?

Perhaps I’ll give you

like this.

And what will I give you?

My cooperation.

No.

No. The time for bargaining is over, Mukhtar.

Your time is over. I never asked you for my life.

Don’t tell the world that, in the privacy of this room,

I begged you for my life. No.

I won’t say that.

I won’t lie for you.