Bin Laden just can’t keep quiet now, sticking his nose in the Palestinian situation. That after commenting on the cartoons and the Pope yesterday. Took him long enough considering how long ago they caused a stir in the Muslim world.

Osama bin Laden lashed out Thursday at Palestinian peace negotiations with Israel and called for a holy war to liberate the Palestinian lands.

A day after a bin Laden audio on a militant Web site threatened Europeans, Al-Jazeera TV broadcast audio excerpts attributed to the al-Qaida leader that urge Palestinians to ignore political parties “mired in trickery of the blasphemous democracy” and to rely on armed might.

“Palestine cannot be retaken by negotiations and dialogue, but with fire and iron,” he said.

…Bin Laden added that Palestinians who are unable to fight in the “land of Al-Quds” — a Muslim reference to Jerusalem — should join the al-Qaida fight in Iraq.

Just what we don’t need, a holy war. And Hamas has been arming as has Hezbollah were they to join in the fray. Trying to muck up Iraq too. Doesn’t like the surge apparently. Cause it’s working. Course, who pays attention to what bin Laden wants? He releases tapes and nothing happens.