Which Arabs Are Happy, And Which Are Sad

Saeb Erekat is sad. Mahmoud Abbas is very very sad. The Hamas people in Gaza are sad. The King of Jordan is not sure exactly if he’s happy or sad, but he thinks he should think that he is sad. El-Sisi is not sad at all; he understands Netanyahu, and Netanyahu appreciates him. The King of Saudi Arabia will say that he is sad, but he is happy, because for him Netanyahu is a partner in the same campaign to prevent Iran from obtaining the ability to make nuclear weapons. The Al-Nahyans, all sons of Zayed, who run Abu Dhabi, which is to say the United Arab Emirates, are likely happy, for the same and also for some other reasons. The Kuwaitis, however, who should not be confused with the Emiratis, are sad. The rest? Oh, I don’t know. As for non-Arabs, Rouhani and Zarif and Ayatollah Khamenei are very mad. Erdogan is furious. Cameron and Hollande and Merkel and Renzi — hard to tell, because none of them has yet come to the realization that the war against Israel is a classic jihad, and success in that  jihad will whet, not sate, Arab and Muslim appetites, and dreams of glory, in Western Europe. France, the United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, sooner or later, with unchecked growth in the number of Muslims allowed to live within,  to this favor must they come. And Obama and Kerry? Oh, very very sad.