Why the Launching of an Amazigh-Israeli Friendship Association Interviewer: “Why are the Amazigh [Berber people] – or some of them, lets not generalize – launching an Amazigh-Israeli friendship association?
” Yahya Abu Zakariya, Algerian writer: “Fuad, let me make it clear that, in principle, the Amazigh, throughout the history of the Maghreb, fought off all the colonialist attacks. They stood up to the Vandals, the Romans, and the French who came to the Arab Maghreb. Even before the French, they stood up to the Spaniards. They were the epitome of steadfastness, resistance, and confrontation. Moreover, they did a great service to Islamic civilization, and contributed to it to the greatest degree. The fact that such calls are emerging from the Arab Maghreb – the calls for rapprochement with the Zionist entity, which as the entire world knows, has penetrated our territory, and taken away our security… These calls are, obviously, dubious.” […] “There has been a transformation among certain groups, which are saying that the Arab Maghreb has nothing to do with the Arab world, that there are no bridges connecting this region of North Africa with the Arab world, and that relations with the Z
