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(Please forward widely) United Statement and Call for Action to Oppose U.S./NATO and Israeli War on Syria No more wars –
U.S. out of the Middle East! (please see the
links at the bottom of the page to endorse the call and provide information on
actions) National
Days of Action, June 28- July 17, 2013 The
White House’s June 13th announcement that it would begin directly supplying
arms to the opposition in Syria is a dramatic escalation of the U.S./NATO war
against that country. Thousands of U.S. troops and intelligence personnel
are training opposition forces and coordinating operations in Turkey and
Jordan. Israel, the recipient of more than $3 billion annually in U.S.
military aid has carried out heavy bombing raids against Syria. The Pentagon
has developed plans for a “no-fly” zone over Syria, threatening a new U.S. air
war. The
pretext for this escalation is the assertion, presented without any actual
evidence, that the Syrian government has used chemical weapons in the conflict
that has been raging for more than two years. Like their predecessors,
President Obama and other top U.S. officials pretend to be concerned about “democracy”
and “human rights” in Syria, but their closest allies in the campaign against
Syria are police-state, absolute monarchies like Saudi Arabia and Qatar. Once again the so-called ‘Responsibility to
protect’, R2P, is used as a pretext for NATO to dominate this region. Just
as the false claim of “weapons of mass destruction” was used as justification
for the invasion and occupation of Iraq in 2003, the allegations that chemical
weapons were used by the Syrian military is meant to mask the real motives of
Washington and its allies. Their aim is to carry out “regime change,” as part
of the drive to create a “new Middle East.” The
invasion of Iraq in 2003, the U.S.-backed Israeli war in Lebanon in 2006, the
2011 NATO bombing of Libya, the now-escalating war in Syria and the growing
threats against Iran are part of a coordinated regional effort by the United
States, Britain and France to dominate this oil-rich and strategic region. The
U.S. government cuts basic services and has eliminated hundreds of thousands of
public sector workers jobs in the last three years in
the name of a discredited austerity which has destroyed the economy, but has unlimited billions available for wars of
aggression and NSA surveillance of almost every American. We join together
to call for National Days of Action, June 28- July 15, 2013, to demand: ·
Stop the
U.S./NATO/Israeli war and all forms of
intervention against Syria! ·
Self-determination
free from outside intervention for the Syrian people! ·
Fund people’s
needs, not the military! ·
U.S. Out of the
Middle East! Endorsers:
To endorse the call
and actions, click here: https://www.unacpeace.org/No_Syria_War_support.html For
your local information on actions, click here: https://www.unacpeace.org/Syria_actions.html
Click here for the Facebook UNAC group.
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