The war against the Jews (12)

Monday, 24th March 2008

Al Qaeda’s number two, Ayman al Zawahiri, has illustrated yet again how for the Islamists there is no meaningful distinction to be drawn between Israel, America and the Jews. As the Jerusalem Post reports, he called on Muslims to strike Israeli, Jewish and American interests in revenge for Israel's incursion into Gaza earlier this month.

‘Muslims, this is our day,’ Zawahiri said. ‘Strike the interests of Jews and Americans, and all those who wield aggression against the Muslims. Today no one can say that we are battling the Jews in Palestine alone.’

With the Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah having threatened to take revenge for the killing last month of the arch-terrorist Imad Mughniyeh in Damascus at the end of the ritual 40 days period of mourning (a killing which Nasrallah has laid at the door of Israel, which has denied it), and with security agencies agreed that on past form this is likely to target Jews in the diaspora rather than in Israel, the agenda becomes ever clearer for those who have eyes to see.

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field

March 25th, 2008 2:02am

No surprise there. But surprising perhaps that Jonathan Powell wants us to have tea and buns with people bent on genocide. Does he think it would have worked with the Nazis? Perhaps he really does - plenty of people back in the 30s thought it would.

epaminondas

March 25th, 2008 11:52am

Anyone working in a jewish community center in the rest of the planet ought be paying very close attention to their surroundings

phil

March 25th, 2008 12:35pm

How about a a little poll ,london ,WAheed .ET AL ---if you saw an American ,Brit or what you would call a Jew walking towards you ,together with a militant Islamist ,who would you think more likely to do you harm ?how long must the West put up with threats from these people ,The crazy lefties brought hitler upon us are we going to let them do it again ?I dont advocate war or harm ,just stop the moral support these crazies offer them before they too become victims along with us

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Melanie Phillips is a Daily Mail columnist. She also writes for the Jewish Chronicle and is a panellist on BBC Radio Four's Moral Maze. Her most recent book is 'Londonistan', published by Encounter and Gibson Square.

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