Written by Major General Staff (M) Dr. Muhammad Khalaf Al-Raqqad, former Director of Moral Guidance The directive of His Majesty, the Supreme Commander of the Jordanian Armed Forces/Arab Army, King Abdullah II Ibn Al Hussein, to designate the fifteenth of February of each year as a day for military retirees and veterans, was a deep realization of the meaning and a step that left a good impression on souls and raised morale to sky-high.This national day carries meanings and connotations that only His Majesty King Abdullah II Ibn Al-Hussein understood its psychological and moral dimensions in Jordan, the one who struggled with the masculinity of the soldier and his Arab Hashemite psychological makeup, he is the one who experienced the true female soldier, carried her worries, lived her hardships and difficulties and faced her challenges, just as he suffered from the stings of the bitter cold in the Jordanian desert, which made him an outstanding military leader, and a Hashemite Arab leader who is well-known at the regional and international levels... So, the soldier lived in his heart and conscience, and he built a military building distinguished in quantity and professional military type. As for the retired military and the veterans... they are the glory of the past and the oaks of the present, and the strongest supporter and backer of our valiant armed forces، they have contributed and are still contributing to the stabilization of the state of security and stability experienced by the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, and they gathered the glory before and after it, thus forming a state of confidence and high morale that strengthens the support of their fellow military workers, they cleave their swords in defense of the Jordanian fever, and they stand tall at the frontiers of Jordan with their hands on the trigger, their eyes open, and their hearts full of pride of belonging to our dear Jordan, and of loyalty to our wise and courageous Hashemite leadership, keen not to come from before them... They defy the sun of July, the flames of August, the frost of January, and the freezing cold in (the forties of winter), their souls and bodies warming the heat of their belonging to the dear homeland and their sincere loyalty to the Hashemite leadership...Men who do not pay attention to the trivialities of the world, and whose hearts are filled with the generosity of the Islamic faith and the true values of the military, committed to the ethics of Arabism and Islam... Only the pride and dignity of Jordan are in their minds, and their greatest concern is the strength and dignity of the homeland, the preservation of its achievements, and the protection of its borders. And fight all those who beg himself to prejudice the security of the homeland. As for the martyrs of the Arab army and the security services who preceded us and gave their lives for the dignity of the homeland and the protection of humanity, they are the main pillar in the glory and pride of the Jordanian military, and they are the icons of glory and victory...The enemy witnessed them before the friend... The walls of Jerusalem, the plains and hills of Palestine, the hills of Jerusalem, Nablus, Jenin, Sheikh Jarrah, and in all places in the Palestinian arena, and their tombstones still tell the stories of their heroism and sacrifice, for they are the best of all of us, and they are the living with their Lord...and from all media platforms, we have mercy on their pure souls, great honor, and kindest regards to their families who set examples of peerless patience and reward with God... They have all the greetings, appreciation, and respect from us, the Arab army, and all Jordanians. The martyrs, the wounded, and the old retired people painted pictures of glory, pride, and victory, and they wrote Jordan's political and military history with the ink of their pure blood in immortal pages that cannot be erased by all oppressors and falsifiers…the fragrance of martyrdom and pureblood still perfumes the hills and valleys of Palestine, and the voice of Al-Hussein, may God rest his soul, still resounds in the memory, as it tightens the spirits of the heroes on the day of the Battle of Al-Karamah on March 21, 1968, the day the heroes of the Arab army snatched victory from the attacking enemy, which was planning to occupy The eastern Jordan heights, and brought him back on his heels as a loser who dragged the tails of disappointment in a confused, scattered retreat and disorganized withdrawal, through which he tried to carry the remains of his dead, and to withdraw his destroyed vehicles from the battlefield. On the day of loyalty to the military retirees and the veterans... These heroic men remember their martyred brothers... and salute their pure souls - with respect to the ranks - they salute Mansour Krishan, the leader who refused to be in the front with his soldiers until he was martyred, and Qasim Mutair who rushed Yelling at the martyrdom, he kept praying the enemy with the fire of his 500th machine gun and hindered his progress until he achieved martyrdom. Khidr Shukri Yaqoub, who remained steadfast in his position, directed our artillery to destroy the enemy until the enemy surrounded him, so he said: Now the enemy has surrounded me.... Throw my position... God met a martyr, and Muhammad Hamdan Al-Tayyim, who remained steadfast, confronting enemy planes with his tank’s machine gun, in the plains of Ya’bad/Jenin in 1967 until his tank was destroyed, so he was martyred… We salute the soul of the martyr Muhammad Ali Hussein Al-Harawiya from the Hijab Forces, who was the first casualties of the enemy at his pure hands, and we salute the souls of the martyrs of the three tanks: Salem al-Khasawneh, Muhammad Huaymel al-Zaben, Aref al-Shakhshir, Ratib Muhammad al-Saad al-Bataineh, Issa Suleiman Abd al-Rahim, Aref Muhammad Hamdan, Abdullah Suleiman Muslim, Ahmad Majali al-Shalloul, Sultan Mahmoud al-Kofhi, Suleiman Muflih Muhammad Shatitan Ahmad Muflih, Hamid Muhammad Hamad and Karim Aliyan Ahmed, Muhammad Salem Abdullah, Salhoum Mater, Hamid Sadaf and Taha al-Maharma, who performed the dawn prayer and then repelled the enemy’s advance with their tanks, halted its advance and destroyed its tanks, and forced it to retreat in the battle of eternal dignity. Muhammad Mutlaq, Suleiman Ali Khalil, Abdullah Nazzal Al-Kaabneh, Muhammad Ahmad Falah Al-Khatatbeh, Muhammad Abdullah Salem, Maqbool Ghadifan Thunayan and Salem Kassab Al-Dabaiba. And as we praised the martyrs, we must give the living their right... God Almighty did not write martyrdom for them, so we salute the wounded of the Arab army... Fadel Ali Fahid, who healed his injured bowels and wounds as God wrote him life, and we salute: Suleiman Awad Al-Hamid Qans Armour, who destroyed many enemy tanks in order to avenge his uncle, Arshid Fleihan, who was martyred in Jerusalem, as well as his cousin, the martyr Dhaif Allah, Arshid Fleihan, who joined his father as a martyr ... We salute Shihab Abu Wendy, who, with his colleagues in his tank platoon, managed to destroy enemy tanks and vehicles advancing on the Egyptian Triangle, where the attack on this approach was finally thwarted, and we also salute Taha Yassin Al-Ababneh, who led a group of armor snipers in the Al-Shouna area and destroyed a section of the attacking enemy tanks and armored vehicles. We commend the heroism of Muhammad Hanian Al-Oun from the fifth tanks, who was a tank commander and took over the leadership of the category after the commander of his category was martyred and the enemy destroyed his tank. His tank destroyed the first enemy tank that he saw advancing towards him, then he practiced the tactic of stealth and cover-up with the enemy for more than ten minutes, and he was constantly changing his place until he saw a second tank of the enemy in disguise showing some simple part of its body, so he threw it and hit it directly, and a head that changed its place, then destroyed a tank A third for the enemy, and her injury was in the tank tower. We must remember the heroes who forced the enemy to retreat, scattered and unorganized, due to the confusion of the enemy soldiers and leaders on that immortal day. They did not expect from the valiant Arab army such a violent response and a strong will to fight. In an interview with an Israeli newspaper at the time, Lieutenant-Colonel Aharon Bild, who was leading one of the hostile armored fighting groups in the Battle of Karama, said: Oh my God, I have never seen such artillery shelling in my life... All my tanks were destroyed except for two as a result of this bombardment. For such heroes bow their statures and raise their hats, for they are the ones who made the victory song on the Day of Eternal Dignity. But what can be asserted is that these retirees, who were distributed among the wounded, injured, retired, and martyrs, left their families, wives and mothers, that honoring these retirees should be enhanced, and that the honor of these retirees should be strengthened, and that wide care should be taken of their low salaries and poor financial conditions... Especially since many of them have eroded their salaries. With inflation and high prices becoming hardly enough... It is hoped that the decision-making circles will sharpen their determination to reconsider these old salaries... and take measures to adjust salaries, especially the old retirees. Today, Jordan is living in difficult political conditions in the midst of a region that burns in fire from all sides... We stand in honor and loyalty to those who dedicated the Day of Loyalty to the Retirees, and we say to His Majesty our Supreme Leader, the flag-bearer and steadfast in principle: Walk with us, if you went to the sea, we would go into it with you... And salute to all the martyrs and the wounded, wounded, and retired military personnel on the day of loyalty, and may God protect Jordan under its Hashemite leadership and the faithful and honest Jordanian people.
Written by Major General Staff (M)
Dr. Muhammad Khalaf Al-Raqqad,
former Director of Moral Guidance
The directive of His Majesty, the Supreme Commander of the Jordanian Armed Forces/Arab Army, King Abdullah II Ibn Al Hussein, to designate the fifteenth of February of each year as a day for military retirees and veterans, was a deep realization of the meaning and a step that left a good impression on souls and raised morale to sky-high.
This national day carries meanings and connotations that only His Majesty King Abdullah II Ibn Al-Hussein understood its psychological and moral dimensions in Jordan, the one who struggled with the masculinity of the soldier and his Arab Hashemite psychological makeup, he is the one who experienced the true female soldier, carried her worries, lived her hardships and difficulties and faced her challenges, just as he suffered from the stings of the bitter cold in the Jordanian desert, which made him an outstanding military leader, and a Hashemite Arab leader who is well-known at the regional and international levels... So, the soldier lived in his heart and conscience, and he built a military building distinguished in quantity and professional military type.
As for the retired military and the veterans... they are the glory of the past and the oaks of the present, and the strongest supporter and backer of our valiant armed forces، they have contributed and are still contributing to the stabilization of the state of security and stability experienced by the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, and they gathered the glory before and after it, thus forming a state of confidence and high morale that strengthens the support of their fellow military workers, they cleave their swords in defense of the Jordanian fever, and they stand tall at the frontiers of Jordan with their hands on the trigger, their eyes open, and their hearts full of pride of belonging to our dear Jordan, and of loyalty to our wise and courageous Hashemite leadership, keen not to come from before them... They defy the sun of July, the flames of August, the frost of January, and the freezing cold in (the forties of winter), their souls and bodies warming the heat of their belonging to the dear homeland and their sincere loyalty to the Hashemite leadership...Men who do not pay attention to the trivialities of the world, and whose hearts are filled with the generosity of the Islamic faith and the true values of the military, committed to the ethics of Arabism and Islam... Only the pride and dignity of Jordan are in their minds, and their greatest concern is the strength and dignity of the homeland, the preservation of its achievements, and the protection of its borders. And fight all those who beg himself to prejudice the security of the homeland.
As for the martyrs of the Arab army and the security services who preceded us and gave their lives for the dignity of the homeland and the protection of humanity, they are the main pillar in the glory and pride of the Jordanian military, and they are the icons of glory and victory...The enemy witnessed them before the friend... The walls of Jerusalem, the plains and hills of Palestine, the hills of Jerusalem, Nablus, Jenin, Sheikh Jarrah, and in all places in the Palestinian arena, and their tombstones still tell the stories of their heroism and sacrifice, for they are the best of all of us, and they are the living with their Lord...and from all media platforms, we have mercy on their pure souls, great honor, and kindest regards to their families who set examples of peerless patience and reward with God... They have all the greetings, appreciation, and respect from us, the Arab army, and all Jordanians.
The martyrs, the wounded, and the old retired people painted pictures of glory, pride, and victory, and they wrote Jordan's political and military history with the ink of their pure blood in immortal pages that cannot be erased by all oppressors and falsifiers…the fragrance of martyrdom and pureblood still perfumes the hills and valleys of Palestine, and the voice of Al-Hussein, may God rest his soul, still resounds in the memory, as it tightens the spirits of the heroes on the day of the Battle of Al-Karamah on March 21, 1968, the day the heroes of the Arab army snatched victory from the attacking enemy, which was planning to occupy The eastern Jordan heights, and brought him back on his heels as a loser who dragged the tails of disappointment in a confused, scattered retreat and disorganized withdrawal, through which he tried to carry the remains of his dead, and to withdraw his destroyed vehicles from the battlefield.
On the day of loyalty to the military retirees and the veterans... These heroic men remember their martyred brothers... and salute their pure souls - with respect to the ranks - they salute Mansour Krishan, the leader who refused to be in the front with his soldiers until he was martyred, and Qasim Mutair who rushed Yelling at the martyrdom, he kept praying the enemy with the fire of his 500th machine gun and hindered his progress until he achieved martyrdom. Khidr Shukri Yaqoub, who remained steadfast in his position, directed our artillery to destroy the enemy until the enemy surrounded him, so he said: Now the enemy has surrounded me.... Throw my position... God met a martyr, and Muhammad Hamdan Al-Tayyim, who remained steadfast, confronting enemy planes with his tank’s machine gun, in the plains of Ya’bad/Jenin in 1967 until his tank was destroyed, so he was martyred… We salute the soul of the martyr Muhammad Ali Hussein Al-Harawiya from the Hijab Forces, who was the first casualties of the enemy at his pure hands, and we salute the souls of the martyrs of the three tanks: Salem al-Khasawneh, Muhammad Huaymel al-Zaben, Aref al-Shakhshir, Ratib Muhammad al-Saad al-Bataineh, Issa Suleiman Abd al-Rahim, Aref Muhammad Hamdan, Abdullah Suleiman Muslim, Ahmad Majali al-Shalloul, Sultan Mahmoud al-Kofhi, Suleiman Muflih Muhammad Shatitan Ahmad Muflih, Hamid Muhammad Hamad and Karim Aliyan Ahmed, Muhammad Salem Abdullah, Salhoum Mater, Hamid Sadaf and Taha al-Maharma, who performed the dawn prayer and then repelled the enemy’s advance with their tanks, halted its advance and destroyed its tanks, and forced it to retreat in the battle of eternal dignity. Muhammad Mutlaq, Suleiman Ali Khalil, Abdullah Nazzal Al-Kaabneh, Muhammad Ahmad Falah Al-Khatatbeh, Muhammad Abdullah Salem, Maqbool Ghadifan Thunayan and Salem Kassab Al-Dabaiba.
And as we praised the martyrs, we must give the living their right... God Almighty did not write martyrdom for them, so we salute the wounded of the Arab army... Fadel Ali Fahid, who healed his injured bowels and wounds as God wrote him life, and we salute: Suleiman Awad Al-Hamid Qans Armour, who destroyed many enemy tanks in order to avenge his uncle, Arshid Fleihan, who was martyred in Jerusalem, as well as his cousin, the martyr Dhaif Allah, Arshid Fleihan, who joined his father as a martyr ... We salute Shihab Abu Wendy, who, with his colleagues in his tank platoon, managed to destroy enemy tanks and vehicles advancing on the Egyptian Triangle, where the attack on this approach was finally thwarted, and we also salute Taha Yassin Al-Ababneh, who led a group of armor snipers in the Al-Shouna area and destroyed a section of the attacking enemy tanks and armored vehicles. We commend the heroism of Muhammad Hanian Al-Oun from the fifth tanks, who was a tank commander and took over the leadership of the category after the commander of his category was martyred and the enemy destroyed his tank. His tank destroyed the first enemy tank that he saw advancing towards him, then he practiced the tactic of stealth and cover-up with the enemy for more than ten minutes, and he was constantly changing his place until he saw a second tank of the enemy in disguise showing some simple part of its body, so he threw it and hit it directly, and a head that changed its place, then destroyed a tank A third for the enemy, and her injury was in the tank tower.
We must remember the heroes who forced the enemy to retreat, scattered and unorganized, due to the confusion of the enemy soldiers and leaders on that immortal day. They did not expect from the valiant Arab army such a violent response and a strong will to fight.
In an interview with an Israeli newspaper at the time, Lieutenant-Colonel Aharon Bild, who was leading one of the hostile armored fighting groups in the Battle of Karama, said: Oh my God, I have never seen such artillery shelling in my life... All my tanks were destroyed except for two as a result of this bombardment. For such heroes bow their statures and raise their hats, for they are the ones who made the victory song on the Day of Eternal Dignity.
But what can be asserted is that these retirees, who were distributed among the wounded, injured, retired, and martyrs, left their families, wives and mothers, that honoring these retirees should be enhanced, and that the honor of these retirees should be strengthened, and that wide care should be taken of their low salaries and poor financial conditions... Especially since many of them have eroded their salaries. With inflation and high prices becoming hardly enough... It is hoped that the decision-making circles will sharpen their determination to reconsider these old salaries... and take measures to adjust salaries, especially the old retirees.
Today, Jordan is living in difficult political conditions in the midst of a region that burns in fire from all sides... We stand in honor and loyalty to those who dedicated the Day of Loyalty to the Retirees, and we say to His Majesty our Supreme Leader, the flag-bearer and steadfast in principle: Walk with us, if you went to the sea, we would go into it with you... And salute to all the martyrs and the wounded, wounded, and retired military personnel on the day of loyalty, and may God protect Jordan under its Hashemite leadership and the faithful and honest Jordanian people.
