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| Identifier: | 04AMMAN3739 |
|---|---|
| Wikileaks: | View 04AMMAN3739 at Wikileaks.org |
| Origin: | Embassy Amman |
| Created: | 2004-05-13 12:59:00 |
| Classification: | UNCLASSIFIED |
| Tags: | KMDR JO |
| Redacted: | This cable was not redacted by Wikileaks. |
This record is a partial extract of the original cable. The full text of the original cable is not available.
UNCLAS AMMAN 003739
SIPDIS
STATE FOR NEA/ARN, NEA/PA, NEA/AIA, INR/NESA, R/MR,
I/GNEA, B/BXN, B/BRN, NEA/PPD, NEA/IPA FOR ALTERMAN
USAID/ANE/MEA
LONDON FOR GOLDRICH
PARIS FOR O'FRIEL
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: KMDR JO
SUBJECT: MEDIA REACTION ON THE MIDDLE EAST
Summary
-- The lead story in all papers today, May 13,
highlights the "heroic" Palestinian counter-attack
against an Israeli attack in Gaza, killing 6 Israeli
soldiers. Front-page reports continue to highlight
developments in Iraq, particularly the repercussions
of the beheading of an American civilian contractor.
Editorial Commentary
-- "The Day of Decapitations!"
Daily columnist Bater Wardam writes on the op-ed page
of center-left, influential Arabic daily Al-Dustour
(05/13): "Once again, there is a mix up between the
legitimate, noble and heroic Arab resistance to
occupation and aggression on one hand and barbarism,
mutation and haphazard killings on the other.. In the
first case, six Israeli soldiers got what they
deserved as they were invading a land that was not
theirs, bombing and destroying and killing innocent
Palestinians. The heroic resistance left those
soldiers in pieces in the land of Gaza.. That same
day in Iraq, a group that calls themselves the
resistance decapitated an American civilian and took
pride in this `heroic' operation of killing an unarmed
prisoner, thus giving a very ugly and bad image of the
Iraqi resistance. No one in the world can accept the
decapitation of a civilian for just being an American
in response to the torture conducted by American
soldiers in Iraq. In one, the ugliness of what
happened in Iraq nullified the heroism of what
happened in Palestine. There became a congruence
between the two actions in the minds of international
public opinion, despite the huge difference in the
circumstances: one being a heroic operation in defense
of the land and the other being a cowardly and ugly
execution that is unacceptable religiously and
morally."
GNEHM
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