CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - Al-Qaida's No. 2 leader issued a worldwide call in a new videotape released Thursday for Muslims to rise up in a holy war against Israel and join the fighting in Lebanon and Gaza until Islam reigns from "Spain to Iraq."

In the message broadcast by Al-Jazeera television, Ayman al-Zawahri, second in command to Osama bin Laden, said that al-Qaida now views "all the world as a battlefield open in front of us."

The Egyptian-born physician said that the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah and Palestinian militants would not be ended with "cease-fires or agreements."

Now I’ve got to ask everyone out there that is condemning Israel, if Al-Qaida, Hezbollah ("There is no solution to the conflict in this region except with the disappearance of Israel,"), and Hamas ("Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it.") all say that there will be no talks and/or ceasefires, that there will be no peace negotiations with Israel… why are you all demonizing Israel for not trying for talks.

Don’t you people get it? The guys they are fighting DON’T WANT TO TALK. They want Israel to stop existing. How do you negotiate with that? How can you ask the people and government of Israel to lay down arms or draw back in the face of that kind of hatred and violent temperament?

I’ve got news for you: If Israel were to stop now, and draw all the way back to the 1967 boarder, it wouldn't be a year before these same groups were again lauching rockets and mortars at them.

They don’t want Israel to stop attacking them. The don’t want Israel to stop occupying their lands. THEY WANT ISRAEL TO STOP EXISTING.

This isn’t just Israeli propaganda. These groups are putting it out there themselves in an open format for all to see. Quit turning a blind eye to the reality of this situation.