Jordanian Protesters Rally against Hizbullah, Assad
إقرأ هذا الخبر بالعربية
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.”
21 June 2013, 18:01
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A good demo yesterday in central Beirut, a good demo today in Jordan. Wish I could have joined both.
21 June 2013, 22:44
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Dont thank them. Their king that they dont dare to criticize is part of the problem. He does what he is told. Jordan helped in bringing in the "jihadis" that caused a severe blow to the legitimate opposition by tarnishing its image. And as for the syrian refugees in jordan, they are treated badly by the regime and their security forces. So all in all, the only thing jordan did was to obey those who wanted to destroy syria and not actually bring real poaitive change to it. As i have said before, bedouins (even if they have a british mother) should never be allowed to govern and be sure that you cant trust them because they will do what their tribal leader say and the tribal leader will do what the highest payer says.
22 June 2013, 00:00
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wolf, you mean unlike our people who dont sell themselves to KSA, qatar, Iran, America and other countries? 12 million lebanese are dispersed across foreign lands, only 4 million live in lebanon. Likewise, one can ask have you ever noticed no matter where lebanese are, we are over represented in crimes such as human traficking, rape, drugs and terrorism? When i lived in australia, i couldnt tell people i was lebanese for my own safety due to the lebanese thugs and criminals that had tarnished our image there.
22 June 2013, 00:03
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I can only think of two places where there has been civil unrest in camps, and that was in lebanon and jordan. In lebanons case, there was civil unrest all over lebanon and every single party was involved, not only the camps. In jordans case, there was a campaign by the bedouin tribes against the Palestinians whom they considered not to be arab enough and feared they would take over the land that they recently had been given by britain. Between 1948-1967, the jordanian army of bedouin tribes ruled the westbank with an iron fist, torturing people and opressing them and after 1967 when jordan lost the westbank, the PLO (whom i hate) wanted to take back land that historically belonged to the palestinians (eastern palestine) and not to the bedouin tribes. But thats history and i dont see why you would talk like this? Palestinians built jordan from scratch basicly.
22 June 2013, 00:04
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They also contributed to lebanon and still do, there was an article a few years ago in assafir pointing out their positive contributions to lebanon. Lebanon gets many economical benefits from palestinians who send money, who import goods for their business in the west, from the UN etc. Many prominent lebanese are actually palestinians who were naturalized. So i dont think your comment is fair. I hate the PLO and what they did to lebanon and to their own people, but i also hate our lebanese political parties. Many lebanese unfortunatly have a racist mentality which makes us say about others what we should say about ourselves first.
22 June 2013, 00:06
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Bigjohn, Ikhwan are all talk, no action, unless the action is to jump when the dollar says jump.
22 June 2013, 01:06
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Let's wait and see who these Sannis will protest against when Jordan is about to become the substitute land for the Palestinians.
