al-Zawahri Calls For Jihad to Break Isreal's Blockade of Gaza

Seems to me that al Qaida is shifting it's focus away from Iraq. Especially since it has been getting it's ass kicked over in IRaq. Fox News

CAIRO, Egypt — Al Qaeda's No. 2 leader called on Muslims to launch a holy war to break Israel's economic blockade of the Gaza Strip, in an audio recording posted Wednesday on an Islamic militant Internet site.

In the 11-minute tape, a voice purportedly belonging to Ayman al-Zawahri says in Arabic that the "salvation of the Muslim nation is through the march of its sons on the path of jihad."

An accompanying banner says the message was issued to mark the 41st anniversary of the 1967 Arab-Israeli war, during which Egypt lost the Gaza Strip and Sinai Peninsula, Syria lost the Golan Heights and Jordan lost the West Bank and east Jerusalem.

Oh I see, so the Gaza Strip and the West Bank never belonged to an alleged country called Palestine....

n al-Zawahri's recording, titled "In Memory of the Naksa ... Break the Siege of Gaza," Usama bin Laden's deputy blames Arab regimes for the 1967 defeat. He says Arab governments were "impotent and unable to protect the Muslim nation, its sanctuaries and its wealth."

"The sons of the nation should break the shackles of the treacherous regimes and move to wage jihad, which has become a duty," al-Zawahri says.

The tape follows a audio message from Bin Laden on May 18 in which he criticized Arab states for not waging war against Israel.

Al-Zawahri's message seemed especially directed at Hamas, the Islamic militant group that seized control of the Gaza Strip last June in fighting with supporters of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. Abbas' government is now based in the West Bank, leaving the Palestinian territories split.