Zawahiri not persuaded by Obama's appeal to Muslims

Reuters/Haaretz:

Al Qaida's deputy leader on Tuesday dismissed U.S. President Barack Obama's expression of concern over killings in Gaza as an empty gesture on Tuesday and said Washington remains a main enemy of Muslims.

"I remind our mujahideen brothers that our enemy in Gaza is not only Israel but the Zionist-crusader coalition, with America, the leader of evil ... at its head," Ayman al-Zawahri said in an audio recording posted on Islamic websites.

"Obama said he was concerned about the killings of civilians in Gaza. We thank Mr. Obama for his concern which we received with thousands of shells and ... white phosphorous," Zawahri said, referring to Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip. "But Obama's concern did not seem to last long as he did not say a word about Gaza in his inauguration speech, as if nothing had happened," he added.

"The Zionist-crusader [Israeli-Western] campaign against Islam and the Muslims cannot be defeated without warfare," Zawahri said, calling the devout to join a jihad (holy war).

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"I think that when you look at the rhetoric that they've been using against me before I even took office ... what that tells me is that their ideas are bankrupt," Obama told Al Arabiya television, according to a transcript of the interview.

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They don't have much in the ways of ideas but they can still rant with the best of the Islamic religious bigots. The Crusaders were far from being Zionist. They in fact murdered Jews who were still in Israel.

Zawahiri appears to combined those who have sought to reclaim the land where Israel lies from Muslims who took it over after the Romans forced many Israelis to run. It is now a conflict between two sides who see the others as squatters. Because of the religious aspects of the war emotions on both sides make compromise impossible.

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