The Jordanian-based news and entertainment portal Albawaba insists on calling insurgents in Iraq "resistance fighters." Unbelievable! Don’t they realize that those same "resistance fighters" just crossed the border to inflict the carnage in Amman? Or is Albawaba still following the flawed logic that when insurgents come to Jordan they are terrorists but when they are on the other side of the border they are "Resistance Fighters"?!? Here is an excerpt from this masterpiece:
US sources reported that 37 Iraqi resistance fighters were killed in an early morning military offensive on Monday. The attack, according to military spokesmen, occurred near the Iraqi-Syrian border, which has seen in recent weeks a surge in fighting as US troops attempt to thwart the passage of resistance fighters into Iraq from Syria’s ill-guarded border.
I wonder what the editors at Albawaba will make of this. Apparently, some new reports indicate that one of the terrorists — one of those Albawaba proudly labels "resistance fighters" — was released from US custody in Falluja only to make his way to Jordan to unleash this attack.
what did you think of this story about Jordan in the New York Times today?
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/14/international/middleeast/14jordan.html
cant we all achieve peace with out violence? all forms of violence is terrorsim. Khalas, this is what I have said in the begining and this is what I will say to the end (I may have thought different two years ago but i have grown since then and learned a lot more about the world.)
If Ghandi resisted without violence we all can too!
I think not all terrorists are freedom fighters, and not all freedom fighters are terrorists!
Ameen, when it comes to Palestine I do agree with what you said. Palestinians need to move forward in creating a state, that is if Israel can put off bombing the hell out of them for a while.
But the situation in Iraq has thousands of american military occupying a country and people are defending it.
If any country in the world invaded Jordan tomorrow because it says we pocess weapons of mass destruction, and later on because it wants to instill democracy, and later on because it wants to kill zarqawi….what would we as Jordanians do? welcome them with roses in the streets?
would jordanians fight foreign invaders? would we resist them? how would you resist them when their military as at your door? with a sword or a pen?
I respect your opinion however everything is relative to its respective situation.
A quick side note, talk to Ammar about Al-Bawaba’s irresponsible journalism. He’s to blame. 🙂
Nas, allow me to step in with a brief interlude.
The point you made about Iraqis surrendering is invalid. Yes, I expect them to surrender, not to the American invasion, but to the political process. America is losing support for this war at home, most of the world never supported its actions, and as such they were put under the microscope. They had to scrap any return to monarchist or appointing regent plans they had and insisted upon democracy.
The Iraqis need to support this, and learn to gain their country back with their pens and not their swords. The same could be said of Palestine. We are in no position to fight a war against either the Israelis or the Americans, and our only saviors are Israeli and American public opinion which determine the fate of their leaders.
I’m blabbering. But the solution is within our collective reach, and perpetuating the cycle of violence is more detrimental to our cause than theirs. In its most simple terms, what I’m saying is, two wrongs never ever make a right.
lol thank u for the lesson in double standards natasha but this is a typical arguement with all due respect. this is basically painting everything in two either black or white when the middle east is altogether different shades of gray.
america has invaded a country, do u want iraqis to just surrender? would you do the same if it was jordan? now the iraqi resistance is made up of iraqis who are defending their homes. the other horror your seeing such as blowing up shiaa and targeting civilians in mosques is definitly not the resistance. many parties have issued statements condemning these acts and saying they had nothing to do with it, next thing you know zarqawi pops up and proudly says “it was me!”. so you have alqueda there fighting for its own cause, and you have the iraqis fighting for their homeland. which is why in Jordan we call the former terrorism and latter resistance. different objectives, different tactics, different shades of gray.
as for palestine, how u view someone blowing himself up is up to you, but it palestine is not Jordan, Jordan is not occupied, Jordan is not at war.
i condemn the bombings in jordan and i condemn the alqueda acts in iraq, madrid, london and new york. but the resistance in iraq and palestine are seperate entities
i hate politics , u never know whats right and whats wrong , whats real and whats fake ……….. bs in my opinion i gss at least some of those Iraqies can be called resistance fighters for defending their land cuz they conisder the american troops in Ira
Nas,
I beg to differ, the so called resistance in Iraq killed hundreds of Iraqi lives, including men and children. That’s not resistance, that’s murder. Or the lives of Shia do not count in your opinion ? The resistacne also killed journalists, humanitarian workers, you name it.
As for the case of Palestine, killing Israeli citizens on a bus or in a shopping mall, is not resistance, it is murder as it is the case when Israeli soldiers kill children and unarmed civilians…you can’t condemn one and neglect the other.
When you condemn the actack in Jordan, you should condemn all the other attacks that target innocent civilians… Otherwise you will have double standards. Attacks on civilians should be condemned, period!
There is a difference. The Iraqis in Iraq who are resisting an illegal occupation know there is a difference. The Palestinians in Palestine who are resisting an occupation know there is a difference. Jordanians after Wednesday most certainly now know there is a difference. And the Jordanian media knows there is a difference.
This has nothing to do with this specific bit of news and albawaba in particular, but in general.