Jordanian Protesters Rally against Hizbullah, Assad
Members of Jordan's Muslim Brotherhood and youth groups were among 1,500 people who took to the streets of Amman on Friday to protest against Syrian President Bashar Assad and Hizbullah.
Demonstrators gathered outside the al-Husseini mosque after Friday prayers to protest against Assad and the Lebanese group which has sent fighters to bolster regime forces in Syria's bloody civil war.
The protesters chanted anti-Assad and anti-Hizbullah slogans, Agence France Presse reported.
They called Hizbullah -- the "party of God" in Arabic -- the "party of Satan", saying that the "true place for the resistance is Palestine", referring to Hizbullah's long-term role as champion against Israel.
Marchers also chanted: "Syria, country of free men, with the help of God, Bashar will fall."
Zaki Bani Rsheid, deputy leader of Jordan's Muslim Brotherhood, said: "The revolution of the Syrian people is a great revolution, not just one against the regime, but a tale of how a nation rose up against tyranny and repression."
"The battle of Qusayr revealed the falsity of the resistance," he said, adding that "the will of the Syrian people is capable of creating a regime of true resistance, not a false one."
Syrian regime troops and Hizbullah fighters assaulted the former rebel stronghold in central Homs province last month. A fierce battle ensued for nearly three weeks, and ended with a regime victory.
Rsheid said "the true place of the resistance is not in Syria but in Palestine", pointing out that "Bashar will share the same fate as (Moammar) Gadhafi and the others, because this is the will of the people," a reference to the late Libyan strongman toppled in 2011.
Hizbullah chief Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah had previously justified the group's involvement in Syria by saying it was defending Lebanese-inhabited border villages inside Syria and Shiite holy sites in Damascus province.
But during a May 25 speech marking the 13th anniversary of Israel's military withdrawal from Lebanon, Nasrallah said "if Syria falls in the hands of the Takfiris and the United States, the resistance will become under a siege and Israel will enter Lebanon. If Syria falls, the Palestinian cause will be lost.”
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