My cynical Saudi source reports that the princes are not totally displeased with the reaction to their decision to reject a seat on the UN Security Council. Even if they don’t take the seat that they had campaigned so hard to get. They are already campaigning for that seat to go to Jordan, she claims. That way the Saudis can still speechify and vote but through the mouth of the Jordanian ambassador who will get the blame for whatever ‘stuff’ comes out of his mouth. All for a substantial fee, of course. Too bad the Jordanian ambassador, being who he is, has no sense of humor to help him appreciate the situation.
She reports that the princes have developed an appetite for more brinkmanship. The senior princes feel they need to send a stronger message to let Uncle Sam know they are displeased. Thus she report that the next man to be named Crown Prince (after Salman) will shock the world, and please the rival princes, by announcing publicly that he rejects the position of Crown Prince until the UN starts doing its job of liberating Syria from Al Assad and handing it over to the tribal Salafi forces established by Saudi Arabia for that purpose. She claims the princes will also demand that the UN give Hezbollah and its local supporters, all 2-3 million of them, an ultimatum to depart Lebanon and hand it over to Saad Hariri who will govern it from Paris and Riyadh alternately.
She tells me to wait, there is more: that will not be all. Their next target after that will be their old and current target: Iraq…………..

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mhg