26 fronted it. This was the third feature of their heroic resistance against foreign invasion, for it helped the revolution to survive and prosper within the warmth of the organic relations connecting the Algerian people and the greater Arab nation. Thus the Algerian Revolution confronted its enemies armed with its heritage. It showed that as division was the door through which colonisation, weakness and backwardness came into the Arab world, our unity and our understanding of our true Arab and Islamic identity are our only route to progress and independence. The fourth and last feature is found in the indisputable truth that the Algerian Revolution achieved its victory, not at negotiating tables but in war and fields of combat. This victory did not happen in hours or months, but after long and arduous years. It was fighters who imposed the solution and not the mediation of the allies and friends of the enemy. These are the lessons we’ve learned, my dear brothers, from theAlgerian Revolution as we’ve learned them from our old and recent history. It is our duty to recall and absorb these lessons here in Algeria or there in Palestine as well as in every part of the greater Arab world. We have come to realise that raising our flags on tattered parts of our nation is not independence. We have come to understand that adopting alien life styles under the pretext of modernity is not progress. Any economic product is by necessity a cultural product. This is not only because the methods and
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