Jordan Demands Israel Explain Killing Of Jordanian Terrorist

Jordan is furious Israel had the gall to kill a Jordanian terrorist, who rushed at a group of cops with a knife shouting “Allahu Akbar.”

They want a detailed explanation.

Jordan has demanded a detailed explanation from Israel about the killing of a 28-year-old Jordanian by Israeli troops last week.

Israeli police have said Said Amro came out of a gate of Jerusalem’s Old City with a knife in each hand, shouted “God is Great” and rushed at officers before being shot dead.

The state news agency Petra says Jordan’s information minister met Monday at the Foreign Ministry with the Israeli ambassador to Jordan and asked for explanations.

Also Monday, hundreds attended Amro’s funeral in the town of al-Mogheer, chanting “Death to Israel.”

Amro’s cousin Ramzi says his relative was “assassinated in a mean way.”

Jordan and Israel signed a peace treaty in 1994, but the deal remains unpopular among Jordanians, in part because of Israel’s continued rule over Palestinians.

I can just imagine the Jordanian information minister now..

I dunno, I think the footage is quite clear (Although I guess it is theoretically possible he was just really hungry – hence the rushing and knife at the ready – and shouted out “Where’s the snack bar?”).

So, given the Jordanians seem to have a hard time comprehending what happened, I thought I would help out with a detailed explanation they might understand.

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As to his cousin’s accusation, I reject that he was “assassinated”, but I have no idea how being assassinated in a not-mean way would look.

22 thoughts on “Jordan Demands Israel Explain Killing Of Jordanian Terrorist”

  1. I’m guessing that “assassinated in a mean way” is a poor translation of an expression that means “cruelly assassinated”

  2. I have it on good authority that this was actually the filming of Season 2 of the cooking reality tv series “Knife Fight” but something went terribly wrong in the script translation from English to Arabic.

  3. Being assassinated in a nice way is when the assassin spends seven days infusing flower petals with delicately scented fragrant oils, then stuffs them in the target’s mouth so he can’t breathe. As he chokes, calming classical music is played on a boombox nearby. The assassin recites soothing poetry with comforting themes as the target’s life energy slowly ebbs away. As soon as the target passes on, the assassin performs an elaborate interpretive dance, which he spent the last two years preparing, honoring the target’s life, hopes, and dreams (which will now never be realized). Then the assassin sends the target’s next of kin a gift basket with a beautiful card with uplifting springtime imagery on the cover, inside which is written, in the finest, most elegant script, “sorry for your loss”. Finally, the assassin donates a sum of money to buy a kitten or puppy for a sick child, in the target’s memory.

      1. I have not heard of her heretofore, no.
        I was trying to be funny. There is of course no “nice” way to murder, by definition. This was the most thoroughly absurd scenario I managed to contrive, packing in pointless niceties into every conceivable stage of the otherwise brutal act of murder. (Though I probably should have added gourmet mints to the choking stage). Seems like folks are seeing this as something other than the admitedly macabre satire I envisioned.

        1. Not to worry, J B; I picked up on your snarky intentions just fine. But you’d be surprised at how popular a genre the warped serial-killer fantasy is. The TV series Criminal Minds, a serial-killer-of-the-week extravaganza, has been running for ten years or so.

  4. Norman_In_New_York

    Although I don’t think the king needs a reminder, it behooves to inform other Jordanians that not only was their realm an original part of the mandate for a Jewish national home, but the land between the Rivers Arnon and Jabbok east of the Jordan were a historic part of the Jewish commonwealth and present day Israelis have relinquished it out of the goodness of their hearts.

  5. Guy was killed because he was a terrorist. Is that so hard to understand?!? When one tries to kill people and gets killed in the process, this is an occupational risk.

  6. I don’t think the “assassination” could be described as mean, but I’m pretty sure that making fun of the dead could be thought of as mean. Oh well….Here are my 3 mean thoughts.
    1. Reminds me of this:
    https://youtu.be/7YyBtMxZgQs
    2. Seriously, what exactly was his plan? I don’t think he thought it through really.
    3. The birds flying out of the gate is artistic. Nice bit of cinematography.

      1. Have you heard the famous story about how that scene wasn’t in the script? It was originally supposed to be an awesome duel with whip and sword, but Ford had a bad cold that day and just wasn’t up to nailing the moves. After a few attempts, Ford begged Spielberg, “Please, Steven, can I just shoot him?” And thus was born possibly the greatest serendipitous script alteration in the history of American film!

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