The Arab Tweet: US Bombing of Syria

Last night the United States and its coalition partners expanded their war against ISIS from Iraq into neighboring Syria, with an aerial attack that targeted both ISIS and the al-Qaeda-linked group Khorasan. The reaction from the Arab world is overwhelmingly negative, in spite of, or perhaps because of, participation by the governments of Bahrain, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, and the United Arab Emirates. Here’s a sampling:

A number of tweeters observed that these attacks help a guy who we say we oppose. This tweet from “Urgent Arabia,” a news service that promises credible accounts of the Arab Street, is typical:

Abd ur-Rahman responds to Urgent Arabia,

There are many attacks on the rulers of the coalition nations, such as this one from Qasim Yahya Khairuddin, whose about.me profile identifies him as a newscaster with the Palestinian al-Quds satellite channel in Beirut:

Dalaa al-Mufti, from Kuwait, is no friend of ISIS, but…

Finally, Joelle Achkar has this message for the coalition:

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