The Jihad Media Battalion Presents English Translation of
Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri’s speech (may Allah preserve him)
“Free Blockade on the Gaza Strip”
10-06-2008
In the Name of Allah, all the praises and thanks be to Him,
and may peace and blessings of Allah be upon our prophet Mohammed, his family
and all his companions.
O Muslim brothers everywhere! Assalamu Alikum Wa Rahmatu Allahi Wa Barakatu
Forty one years ago, our Umma (nation) was subjected to the worst catastrophe it
had ever had; it was the “Naksah”(Setback) of 1967. That catastrophe which we
still suffer from until now, which was the turning point in our history , lives,
and the lives of the next generations as well.
People of our Ummah- especially in the Arabic region- were deeply affected, some
positively was affected and started the sincere search for the causes behind
that catastrophe. So Allah guided them towards the way of salvation, which is
holding fast to the Quran , practicing the Islam fully and following the path
given to us by Allah, so they stuck to the path of Islam, the truthfulness and
the sincerity , and realized how many problems and catastrophes the deviated
secular paths had brought to the nation.
Thus, they have cleaved to their religion and belief, realizing that the rights
of the nation wouldn’t be back without sacrifices. So they sacrificed and are
still sacrificing, they stayed firm and still they are, they never compromise
and they will never do with the grace of Allah.
On the contrary, others were negatively affected by the setback of 1967, they
fell down, and they are falling down more, first by acceptance of the Resolution
242 , till they directly collaboration with the MOSAD by directing them to their
own people, even torturing them and helping to kill them for Israel’s security.
Talking about the 1967 ‘setback’ will take us so long, so I will give just hints
about that major catastrophe which we are still suffering from its effects until
now.
This setback revealed how deeply corrupted our governments was, till their
armies which kept assaulting and humiliating the civilians, ran away defeated
from the battle field after only six hours of the battle.
The military and political leadership which brought us the worst catastrophe in
our current history was the same leadership which turned the military jail of
Egypt into a slaughterhouse of the Muslim youth. And sent its troops to fight
the unknown and endure losses in Yemen and Congo, but when the time of fighting
came, it ran away.
This setback revealed the size of destruction we suffered due to the secular
regimes, which are still destroying our communities and countries, and which
caused us the major catastrophes in our current history from the 1948 setback
till today.
Even the partial victory which was achieved on 6 October 1973, was soon wasted
by the traitor leadership, for after one day from the beginning of the war,
“Al-Sadat” sent his famous telegram to the Americans saying that he is not
willing to deepen the clashes or widen the confrontation. Then the
American-Israeli reply was shelling very deep into Syria and Egypt plus
besieging the Third army.
This setback revealed the collapse of the Arabic regimes and its total failure
to protect the Muslim nation, its wealth and holy places, however it revealed
that these regimes was the main cause of its calamities and catastrophes.
The setback also revealed that the regime in Palestine doesn’t have any
principles or values except maintaining the tyrants over the chairs of power.
This regime which kept trading with the Palestinian issue, is the regime that
began the compromising series, that abandoned 4/5 of Palestine and is the same
regime which besieges Gaza today to subjugate it to the Israeli will, and to
torture its people to extract information from them to give it to the CIA and
the MOSAD.
This setback exposed the severe weakness of the Arab nationalism, which sold the
most important Arabian issue, for a cheap price, and its symbols of rebellion
turned to be agents for America and Israel, and who leaves their obedience one
bit, will be poisoned, and the rest of the comrades in the march of treason.
They used to say ‘We cooperate with Satan himself for liberating Palestine,” so
they cooperated with Satan and they lost Palestine; they forgot Allah’s saying:
{”Whoever, forsaking Allah, takes Satan for a friend, hath of a surety suffered
a loss that is manifest. Satan makes them promises, and creates in them false
hopes; but Satan’s promises are nothing but deception.”}(4/119-120)
This setback also revealed that the salvation of this nation is the Jihad, for
the governments already sold, treasured, siege its subjects, chase them and
torture them, however the Muslim institutes wait for the permission of the
presidents to begin Jihad, and to shorten the way, they better ask for the
permission of the Caesar of the White House. So the sons of the Ummah must
destroy the restrictions of the treasonous regimes and the frailty institutes,
and rush to Jihad and support the mujahedeen, for Jihad now is a religious
obligation upon every Muslim, and every Muslim will be asked about it.
Gaza the prisoner, which got lost by the corrupt secular regime, till today is
besieged by the same regime, and the siege is tightened more and more around it,
to kneel in front of the Zionist invaders. And Sinai the violated, which got its
sovereignty sold by the treasonous rulers, who accepted it without sovereignty
for protecting the borders of Israel, now its sons are being killed and tortured
for protection of the Israeli corruption trade over its land.
its people are tortured for their support to the people of Gaza.
Hence I say to my Muslim brothers in Gaza: Them who besieges you is a traitor
criminal enemy of Allah and His messenger, from the soldiers of the security
forces who protect the treason, to Hosni Mubarak.
And it is your right to enter Egypt whenever you wish, and to destruct the
fences of the treason whenever you wish, and him who faces you should only blame
himself, for Egypt is not the private farm of Hosni Mubarak and his son, Allah
created its people as free creatures and He didn’t create them as properties to
be sold or inherited.
I say to my Muslim brothers in Sinai, help your brothers in Gaza, participate in
their battle with all what you can, and if they worked to break the fence of
treason, break it with them.
This shameful fence prevents food and medication to reach our people in Gaza,
however it permits and welcomes the passage of 50,000 Israeli tourists who come
at the Easter feast to practice corruption over the beaches of Sinai.
The Muslim brother from Gaza is prevented to reach his brothers in Egypt however
the Israeli tourists enters Egypt without a visa, for the traitors to develop
their outrageous money from the corruption trade in Sinai.
This shameful fence is a ominous fruit from the fruits of (Sykes-Pico) treaty,
which the traitor Arabian regimes stick to, this fence which is never present in
the state of the Islamic Khilafah, which kept defending Palestine till its
collapse, then the Arabian sons of (Sykes-Pico) treaty came to sell it
(Palestine).
The setback revealed that the traitor Arabian regime will not ask for the rights
of the Egyptian captives who was let down by the leaders of the setback, and
left to be prey to Israel, and how come he asks for them, while he is capturing
the sons of Gaza to snatch information from them to provide the Jews with?
O my muslim brothers, we must understand the nature of the conflict, we are
facing a crusader-Zionist aggression against Islam and Muslims, from insulting
the prophet PBUH and the holy Quran, to occupying their lands and stealing their
wealth, to supporting the regimes which steal the bit of bread from their
mouths, and let them to fight and kill each other in the bread queues, while the
thieves are swimming in a sea of stolen money.
Why the Muslim nation suffers hunger, while it is the richest nation over the
earth, where are its energies, wealth, but where is the money of the oil only?
Where this wealth disappear? It disappears in the banks of the crusader
invaders, Jews and their agents the traitors, and if we didn’t get rid of them,
let us then die of hunger.
-No independence, no sovereignty, no perseverance for our wealth, no justice and
no political reform except by Jihad, by commitment to Islam, Islam is the
salvation of the nation and the whole humanity.
-These facts in our conflict if we didn’t realize it, then turn our realization
into an energy to work and will of change, we will remain in the bonds of
exploitation, tyranny and slavery.
The setback memory reveals one more thing, which is the pivotal role of Egypt in
the history of Islam, when the leadership in Egypt is an Islamic fighting
leadership, it leads the nation to victory, and when the leadership in Egypt
betrays, it leads the whole nation to defeat and humiliation, and this what the
Egyptian leadership was at the time of the setback and after it, Egypt abandoned
its historical role in defending the Muslim nation, hence the Zionist enemy more
widely assaulted Muslims. Hence, the people of Egypt must work hard to get rid
of the traitor leaders, the corrupt who spread corruption everywhere.
In conclusion, I say to our brothers in Palestine, talking about the setback of
67 reminds us with the boring repeated talk about returning to the borders of
June-1967, there is a campaign to spread despair between the ranks of our people
and brothers in Palestine, that they should accept the borders of Palestine
agreed upon on 4 June 1967, and the rest of Palestinian land should be forgotten
from the memories of the Palestinians, and unfortunately some (Marines)i.e
pro-American scholars encourage this, and declare publicly that we can normalize
relations with Israel if the illusory Palestinian state got established, they
don’t say this in secrecy, however they declare it in conferences and publish it
in their websites.
Hence I say to my brothers in Palestine, those who began talking about the
borders of 1967, didn’t gain any borders, and those who agreed upon respecting
the international resolutions, they never gain any respect from the makers of
the international resolutions, so stick to your holy books(Quran) and your
trenches, never give up arbitration to the Islamic sharia, increase your
martyrdom operations, your rockets and ambushes, for this is the only salvation.
Say to him who ever tries to spread despair about retrieval of Palestine, that
Allah promised us victory, why then we give up? Why we despair? America is being
defeated in Iraq and Afghanistan on the hands of our brothers, why then we
despair? Why we give up?
Tell them that, if the entire world gave up Palestine, the Jihad people will
never abandon it with Allah’s help.
At last we say All praise be to Allah, Peace and Blessing be upon His final
prophet and Messenger
Submitted by a Mujahid