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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