King Abdullah II's presence in Karak, standing among his people, visiting the injured, and affirming that "whoever imagines that the bullets of treachery can split the ranks of Jordanians has failed in their endeavor before our steadfastness and unity," emphasized that Jordan is a state for its people, that the leadership is close when hardships intensify, and that the state's majesty lies first in protecting its human being.
Our country is fine because Jordanians are not changed or represented by a misguided, passing faction that wants to test us in what is most precious to us—our humanity. Our society, extending with life despite geographical stubbornness and scarce resources, has proved unbreakable.
Jordanians, Muslims and Christians alike, rushed to donate blood for the wounded, flocking to blood banks in Karak and Amman. Blood united when a rogue faction wanted to divide it with blood, and solidarity rallies in most of the Kingdom's cities delivered a single message that we are one body.
The images of our shared living are many, and every generation among us has a story of neighborliness, love, chivalry, and nobility that transcends rogue ideas produced by the machine of resentment and fragmentation in our Levant, where much water has flowed. In Jordan, the mosque guards the church, the church blesses the mosque, and neighborhood is an unbreakable covenant.
In the vocabulary of Jordanians, the response to sedition is one word: ridiculous (it has failed). Whoever thinks they can sow discord among the components of our unified fabric is delusional, because we are one people, one destiny, and a memory that does not differentiate between martyr and martyr.
The timing and location of the incident raise a number of questions, especially with the targeting of innocent people in their moments of greatest vulnerability and grief, in a scene stripped of humanity. However, the investigations and trust in our security institutions will unravel that.
Finally, peace be upon Hammoud in Karak, upon our villages, cities, badia, and camps, and upon our country which we have dedicated to goodness and which will remain. May God have mercy on the martyrs who ascended in the place of prayer, grant healing to the wounded, and grant them loyalty through further solidarity and the protection of our unity. History says that crises only make Jordanians fuse more into a single mold, because our country is fine, and our Hashemite Jordan will remain fine, God willing.
