Jordanians, for God sake, stop making fun of yourselves!
Petra News Agency, 24 July 2006:
الطفيلة/24 تموز/ بترا/نظم اتحاد الطلبة بجامعة الطفيلة التقنية اليوم مسيرة طلابية حاشدة يتقدمها رئيس الجامعة الدكتور سلطان أبو عرابي بمشاركة الطلبة والهيئات الإدارية والتدريسية بالجامعة استنكارا للهجمة الشرسة الحاقدة التي تشنها إسرائيل على الشعبين الفلسطيني واللبناني. ورفع المشاركون في المسيرة الإعلام الأردنية وصور جلالة الملك وجابت طرقات الجامعة وكلياتها منددة بالهجمات المتواصلة التي يشنها العدوان الإسرائيلي على القرى والمدن العربية في فلسطين ولبنان.
Petra News Agency, 21 July 2006:
عمان 21 تموز/بترا/ انطلقت بعد صلاة اليوم الجمعة من امام المسجد الحسيني الكبيرمسيرة تضامن مع الشعبين الشقيقين الفلسطيني واللبناني استنكارا للعدوان الاسرائيلي الغاشمعلى اراضيهما وتدمير المدن والقرى وقتل المدنيين الابرياء الى ساحة امانة عمان الكبرى .ورفع المشاركون في المسيرة صور جلالة الملك والاعلام الاردنية ويافطات نددت بالعدوان الاسرائيليين الاثم على لبنان وفلسطين .وشارك الاف من الاردنيين في المسيرة وفعاليات نقابية وحزبية وشعبية . وكان حزب جبهة العمل الاسلامي حصل على موافقة محافظ العاصمة الدكتور سعد الوادي المناصير على تنظيم المسيرة.
Petra News Agency, 21 July 2006:
جرش/21تموز/بترا/انطلقت بعد صلاة الجمعة من المسجد الهاشمي في مدينة جرش مسيرة شعبية عبرت خلالها الفعاليات الشعبية والحزبية والنقابية عن مشاعر الغضب والاستنكار للعدوان الاسرائلي الغاشم على الشعبين اللبناني والفلسطيني وما يتعرض له الشعبان من قتل للابرياء وتدمير للبنية التحتية .ورفع المشاركون في المسيرة التي جابت شوارع جرش باتجاه الملعب البلدي الاعلام الاردنية وصور جلالة الملك عبدالله الثاني ولافتات حملت شعارات الشجب والاستنكار معربين عن تضامنهم مع ابناء الشعبين الشقيقين ومشيدين بالوقفة الاردنية الهاشمية والمساعي التي يبذلها جلالة الملك لوقف العدوان والمساعدات التي يقدمها الاردن للتخفيف من محنة الشعبين الشقيقين .واعقب المسيرة مهرجان خطابي القيت فيه كلمات معبرة عن وقوف ابناء الشعب الاردني الى جانب اشقائهم في مواجهة العدوان الغاشم. وكانت الفعاليات الشعبية حصلت على موافقة لاقامة هذه المسيرة من محافظ جرش محمد الرواشدة
Petra News Agency, 21 July 2006:
اربد/21 تموز/بترا/انطلقت مسيرة من امام مسجد اربد الكبير اليوم شاركت فيها فعاليات حزبية ونقابية للتنديد بالعدوان الاسرائيلي على الشعبين اللبناني والفلسطيني.ورفع المشاركون الذين تجاوز عددهم الالفين صور جلالة الملك عبدالله الثاني والاعلام الاردنية ويافطات تندد بالعدوان الاسرائيلي الغاشم على لبنان وفلسطين والذي استهدف المدنيين الابرياء والبنية التحتية فيهما .وحصلت الفعاليات المنظمة للمسيرة على موافقة المحافظ.
Are you sure that Jordanians know what is going on this earth?! Has anyone lied and told them it is Jordan or the king that is under attack? For God sake, if you do not know how to demonstrate or if you are doing it for some agenda other than supporting the Palestinians and the Lebanese then please stop making fun of yourselves and stay at home watching Aljazeera; try to learn from the Lebanese and the Palestinian resistance how a nation would defend their honor, or at least you can learn how to demonstrate and mobilise properly!
Neither the Palestinians nor the Lebanese want us to raise the Jordanian flag or the king's picture at this critical time. They want to feel that there are not alone; they want to see our support to their heroic resistance and our condemnation to the Israeli attacks on innocent civilians. I'm afraid they were mistaken when they expected that it was so obvious that the whole Arab and Muslim nation were backing them.
The Palestinians and the Lebanese want us to put pressure on our own governments. The minimum that our governments can do is to cut their diplomatic relations with both Israel and USA (Yes the Americans are now directly involved in the military operation on Lebanon by stepping up the delivery of special bombs to be used exclusively in Lebanon, not to forget that most of the Israeli military arsenal that has been killing the Palestinians for 58 years was provided freely by the USA).
Both the Palestinians and the Lebanese believe that they are all equal, and that if any of them get imprisoned no one will take a rest until they free their prisoners no matter how much it may cost them. These are not slogans or hot words for a manifesto but rather a pledge that has been engraved in stone by blood. This reminds me with the Three Musketeers' motto "One for all, and all for one", a statement of solidarity that is very well established in the Palestinian and Lebanese Consciousness. Free Palestinians decided they are not better than their heroes in Israeli prisons, thus they accepted to undergo the struggle to free them. The Lebanese decided they are not better than their prisoners or the Palestinians so the FREE Lebanese engaged in the fight to free their prisoners and the Palestinians'. I'm afraid the chain ends here as for the rest of the world -including us as Jordanians- they still think of themselves to be superior to the Palestinians and the Lebanese.
Forget the Palestinians and the Lebanese. In Jordan we don't even give our own prisoners in Israel a s*** -excuse my French-! I even have the doubt that one of the shameful peace agreement secretive clauses was to forget about those prisoners considering they are criminals from an Israeli perspective. If you think that we have the right as normal Jordanians to live in freedom and welfare when those who fought for our freedom and welfare -and honor- are still imprisoned then let me tell you that there is still a lot that we need to learn about honor, dignity and the definition of a MAN.
You know what? I'm not going to talk anymore. Let this photo say it all instead (ans excuse me if I was a bit harsh):
9 comments:
I do not think raising the flag of country is called "making fun of ourselves". Like each palestinian and Lebanese love their country Jordanians do. Of course Jordan is not attacked, and the focus is on Palestine and Lebanon but I still see it Ok to raise the flag because we are in Jordan. I am completely with you regarding the Jordanain prisoners case.
Akram:
The demonstrations are infiltrated by the intelligence who try to "hijack" it. They can do that because the demonstrators are only look for a mass party and any colorful and flashy posters will work for them. If you can throw in some music (doesn't matter what it is), they will dance. They are immature demonstrators - blame the government for that.
Now I remember the Danish cartoons demonstrations, and there was a picture in the Alrai with a kid holding a poster saying:
ان جلالة الملك لا يرضي ان يهان جدة
yani شو دخل طز في مرحبا؟
Yeah, so they are like demonstrations of the war on Iraq, when we suddenly discovered the "Arab Street" chanting in Egypt
واحد، اتنين، الجيش العربي فين
"وكان حزب جبهة العمل الاسلامي حصل على موافقة محافظ العاصمة الدكتور سعد الوادي المناصير على تنظيم المسيرة"
Ya salam.
Batir, If we are raising the Jordanian flag and the Kings photo because we are in Jordan, does that mean we can also raise pictures of Petra and Jarash too?
Maybe Lebanese can raise pictures of Um Kalthoum.
A westerner, especialy Americans who have a better chance at putting pressure on their government, will watch this demonstration on TV and will think it's a celebration of approval and love for Jordan and it's government.
I thought that demonstrations are specificly to communicate some form of messafe or statement. Correct me if I'm wrong.
You are right in this "will think it's a celebration of approval and love for Jordan and it's government."
& since we like to imitate western a lot! Let’s do as they do in such things! I haven’t ever seen any flag of their countries & their president in same demonstration.
Those flags & pictures could be carried in the Independent Day, Army day, & when a raise in the salary occurred …etc - not when the fuel price has raised!
Thanks guys for your comments.
Batir, as a journalist I assume you watched several demonstrations on several occasions in different places of the world. Have you ever seen a single person holding their own country's flag when the demo has nothing to do with it. It's only in Jordan. I'm not telling you we have to imitate the rest of the world in everything, but it's a common sense thing. I'm sure you still remember the Olympic games inauguration scandal two years ago when a Jordanian delegate went into the playfield carrying the king's picture!
In Britian, everyone loves the queen (including me) yet I've never seen a single picture raised for her anywhere, not even in her 80th birthday last month.
I think the king should come out with a decision to say "Whoever raises my picture will be prosecuted" I'm afraid this is the only language we understand in Jordan.
Rami, Hasan and Rare, many thanks.. 3an jad betfesho el-alb :)
If you have read what I wrote in a good will you will find that I was talking about the flag and not the King. I respect everyone's opinion and you should also respect the opinion of people carrying the pictures of the King. Personally I love the King but I would always raise the Jordan flag and not the King picture.
As for your notes regarding the flag, it reminds me of what I read about politics in Jordan in the 1960s and 1970s when raising a Jordanian flag was a crime against Arab Nationalism as if Jordanians who carry their flag are traitors while those carrying flags of palestine, Egypt, Iraq, Syria and almost all other countries are tue nationalists.
You know, I am gonna go and buy a Jordanian flag to put it on my car just right now!
3an jad betfesho el-alb I can sleep safe with the future of Jordan with people loving their country like you!
Batir, does it make any sense for an American stands in a vigil for Palestine outside the White House holding the American flag? If he does it he'll look stupid, if he doesn't it doesn't mean he doesn't love his country!
I yes we do LOVE Jordan and that's why we CARE.
Batir:
"when raising a Jordanian flag was a crime against Arab Nationalism"
you derail the point Akram was making, he is not saying it is a crime, he is saying that the people have the right to be concerned about issues that are beyond Jordan, in which the Jordanian flag is pretty much irrelevant to the point being discussed.
"3an jad betfesho el-alb I can sleep safe with the future of Jordan with people loving their country like you!"
this is not an argument, this is rhetoric batir. Akram is making a very valid point. The King and the flag have nothing to do with certain issues, at all. Maybe this is news for you, but many of us know that.
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