Al Qaeda is officially weighing in, and they say: Kill all the Jews. And oh, yeah—the Christians, too.
CAIRO, Egypt Jul 27, 2006 (AP)— Al-Qaida’s No. 2 leader issued a worldwide call in a new videotape released Thursday for Muslims to rise up in a holy war against Israel and join the fighting in Lebanon and Gaza until Islam reigns from “Spain to Iraq.”
In the message broadcast by Al-Jazeera television, Ayman al-Zawahri, second in command to Osama bin Laden, said that al-Qaida now views “all the world as a battlefield open in front of us.”
Just in case you thought this was just a war of grievances about, say, borders—this should help you figure it out.
“It is a Jihad for the sake of God and will last until (our) religion prevails … from Spain to Iraq,” al-Zawahri said. “We will attack everywhere.” Spain was controlled by Arab Muslims until they were driven from power at the turn of the 16th century.
Actually, the headline should be “Al-Qaida Calls for Holy War Against Infidels,” but when has the AP ever gotten things right?
Ehud Olmert is going to do what must be done: The Israeli Cabinet has refused to authorize a full-scale invasion. Pinpoint strikes aren’t working, Ehud. Rockets are still raining down on northern Israel. What’s it going to take? A strike on Tel Aviv?
Reuters has discovered that Israelis aren’t going to roll over and play dead:
Rather than being impressed by Hizbollah’s strength — it was a well-laid ambush that trapped the soldiers killed on Wednesday, raising to 32 the number who have died since the conflict began — Shavit was surprised by Israel’s weakness.
“It just shows that we need to be harder. The air force needs to bomb more. We can’t leave troops on the ground in hand-to-hand combat,” he said, standing on Haifa’s Ben Gurion Avenue, a main street deserted since rockets began landing.
So marked was the sense of defiance that an Israeli activist planning an anti-war rally in Haifa was keeping a low profile on Thursday for fear of being denounced, and played down earlier expectations for the size of the demonstration.
“It’s just going to be a small thing, perhaps a couple of dozen people,” said Aneet, who would only give his first name. “We’re almost certainly going to be arrested. People aren’t going to be happy.”
Neither is Reuters, I’m sure.
Iran is now actively planning strategy with Hezbullah; when is the UN going to condemn those scumbags?
A top Iranian envoy was in Syria on Thursday for talks on the Israeli-Hezbollah conflict, in a gathering of the Lebanese guerrilla’s two key sponsors, according to Iranian news reports.
Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah was taking part in the session, according to Kuwait’s Al-Siyassah newspaper, known for its opposition to the Syrian regime. It said the meeting was designed to discuss ways to maintain supplies to Hezbollah fighters with “Iranian arms flowing through Syrian territories.”
The newspaper said it learned of the meeting from “well-informed Syrian sources” it did not identify. It said Nasrallah was moving through Damascus with Syrian guards in an intelligence agency car. He was dressed in civilian clothes, not his normal clerical garb.
The Kuwaiti newspaper said the Iranian official would meet with Syrian President Hafez Assad and Nasrallah.
If ever we needed a good Mossad agent, we need him now. Get that effer. Better still, time to drop a bomb or two on Baby Assad’s palace.
And look, just in time: The “smart bombs” are coming. And would you believe, CAIR is mentioned?
According to the report, the US is stressing that the early shipment should not be seen as an emergency supply to help Israel, but rather as a change of schedule in a deal which was previously agreed upon.
An American – Islamic group – Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) called on the Bush administration to stop the deal, saying that the rush delivery at a time of war would be “unconscionable.”
Actually, delivery at a time of war is known as “resupplying.” You know, what the Syrians and Iranians are doing to the terrorists? Oh, but that’s not “unconscionable,” is it, CAIR?
Speaking of unconscionable, our pals the pals were marching in the West Bank—for Hezbullah, of course.
About 2,000 Palestinians demonstrated in the West Bank on Thursday to show support for Hizbullah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah.
“Dear Nasrallah, blow up Tel Aviv,” the marchers chanted as they waved Lebanese and Hizbullah flags. Some carried pictures of Nasrallah and overthrown Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, while two dozen gunmen fired in the air.
Sure. These people want peace with Israel, and a two-state solution. Uh-huh. Yeah.
Right.
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