{"id":273097,"date":"2020-07-13T14:50:20","date_gmt":"2020-07-13T18:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/?p=273097"},"modified":"2020-10-26T02:31:14","modified_gmt":"2020-10-26T06:31:14","slug":"us-sanctions-are-part-of-a-multi-front-war-on-syria-and-its-long-suffering-civilians-are-the-main-target","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/pt-pt\/us-sanctions-are-part-of-a-multi-front-war-on-syria-and-its-long-suffering-civilians-are-the-main-target\/","title":{"rendered":"US sanctions are part of a multi-front war on Syria, and its long-suffering civilians are the main target"},"content":{"rendered":"
RAEL\u2019S COMMENT:<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n
And all this is happening under the control of Israel.<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n

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The US is waging multiple fronts of war against Syria, including brutal sanctions, while claiming concern over the wellbeing of Syrian civilians \u2013 the vast majority of whom are suffering as a direct result of US policies.<\/p>\n

On June 17, the US implemented the Caesar Act, America\u2019s latest round of draconian sanctions against the Syrian people, to\u00a0\u201cprotect\u201d\u00a0them, America claims. This, after years of bombing civilians and providing support to anti-government militants, leading to the proliferation of terrorists who kidnap, imprison, torture, maim, and murder the same Syrian\u00a0civilians.<\/p>\n

Just weeks after these barbaric sanctions were enforced, cue American crocodile\u00a0tears\u00a0about Syrian suffering, and claims that Moscow and Damascus are allegedly preventing the delivery of humanitarian aid. More hot air from American hypocritical talking heads who don\u2019t actually care about Syrians\u2019 wellbeing.<\/p>\n

America trigger-happily sanctions many nations or entities that dare to stand up to its hegemonic dictates. The word\u00a0\u201csanctions\u201d\u00a0sounds too soft \u2013 the reality is an all-out economic war against the people in targeted nations.<\/p>\n

Sanctions have, as I\u00a0wrote\u00a0last December, impacted Syria\u2019s ability to import medicines or the raw materials needed to manufacture them, medical equipment, and machines and materials needed to manufacture prosthetic limbs, among other things.<\/p>\n

Syria\u00a0reports\u00a0that the latest sanctions are already preventing civilians from acquiring\u00a0\u201cimported drugs, especially antibiotics, as some companies have withdrawn their licenses granted to drug factories,\u201d\u00a0due to the sanctions.<\/p>\n

In Damascus, pharmacies I\u2019ve stopped into, when I ask what some of the most sought-after medications are, hypertension medications are at the top.<\/p>\n

But sanctions have yet another brutal effect: they wreak havoc on the economy.<\/p>\n

The destruction of Syria\u2019s economy is something US envoy for Syria, James Jeffrey, boasted about, reportedly\u00a0saying\u00a0that the sanctions\u00a0\u201ccontributed to the collapse of the value of the Syrian pound.\u201d<\/p>\n

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RAEL\u2019S COMMENT: And all this is happening under the control of Israel.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":280965,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-273097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/pt-pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/pt-pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/pt-pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/pt-pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/pt-pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/pt-pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273097\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/pt-pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/280965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/pt-pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/pt-pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/pt-pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}