Targeting Syria

The U.S. is trying to exploit current events in Syria in order to achieve its own interests and the interests of its ally, Israel. The U.S. is hinting at sanctions and is once again applying pressure to cut Syria off from other forces of resistance in the region, while urging the European Union to take a punitive stance against it.

Whoever observes U.S. policy in this area finds that they only engage in robbery, and that they are not interested — as their headlines claim — in the issues of freedom, reform and human rights. The same logic can be applied to their stances with other Arab countries, beginning with Sudan and ending with Libya, with Egypt, Tunisia, Palestine, Iraq and others in between.

The proof of this is that the reform package that the Syrian leadership agreed to did not even find an inch of column in the U.S. media. Nor did it find a place in U.S. diplomatic statements, which tried to focus only on the protests and invested as much as they could to further U.S. and Israeli agendas; agendas which seek to weaken Syria and isolate her from the powers of resistance, and achieve so-called Israeli security.

Even analysts and political observers confirm that these days, U.S. interests are not directed at Syrian domestic policy, nor on the agreed upon reforms and certainly not on calming the situation. Rather, they focus all the attention on making Syria abandon its principles, and cutting off the limbs of the opposition so that Lebanon and Palestine must work alone. Thus, Syria is removed from the axis of resistance, without knowing that this policy — with its seeds of failure — was sown in advance, just like the U.S.’ failed plans in the past.