(THIS ARTICLE IS MACHINE TRANSLATED by Google from Norwegian)
All politicians want to help Syria. They say that, at least. But few or no will do what is most obvious and additionally free: to lift sanctions that kill Syrians due to a lack of food and medicines, among other things. I remind you that Norway also depends on importing many goods, including food. But this right should not have Syria, Norwegian politicians believe.
When Børge Brende and other Norwegian politicians boast that they have helped billions to the Syrians, it is really about Syrians outside Syria and in rebel-controlled areas of the country. These are mostly jihadists and Shari'ah supporters, who are engaged in armed struggle against the government of Syria, with support from Norway and over 60 other countries: terrorists, as ordinary Syrians call them. Only ten percent of Syrians in areas controlled by the Syrian government receive help (whatever that aid consists of – the government will not answer the question). The remaining 90 percentages are punished with sanctions. This has unanimously agreed, without the politicians touching on the subject. Neither has the media shown any interest.
Looks another way. In other words, the politicians conduct a nasty and manipulative double game that few in Norway are aware of. They pretend to help the Syrians, while in reality punishing the vast majority of the Syrian population.
I was at a debate meeting outside the Storting on 23 August. There was also SV's Bård Vegar Solhjell and the Liberal Party's Ola Elvestuen. I asked them both on the occasion if they had read the UN report on the effects of the Syrian sanctions, which I have sent both to them and the other parliamentary representatives several times.
But none of them had read the report, which came almost a year ago. Neither were they interested in it. Thus, they support sanctions against Syria, but do not care about the consequences of them. Unfortunately, it looks like a
t Solhjell and Elvestuen are quite typical of Norwegian politicians when it comes to knowledge of Syria's situation. As soon as it gets a little warm around their ears, they retreat to their echo chamber, the Storting.
The announcer is a popular person, at least in the party speeches.
The response to the said emails confirms this. Only two of the representatives have thanked me, and both are Frp-er. Otherwise, it was quiet. I myself have been SV voter for many years. But not anymore. Nothing war party will get my vote.
Gangster Regime. Acids die from disease and malnutrition. Aid organizations cited in the report say they cannot provide basic medicines or equipment to hospitals because the sanctions prevent foreign companies and banks from cooperating with the country. The sanctions have even led to a lack of basic working tools such as hooks and spades. And if you have a friend in Syria that you want to help, forget it: It is both illegal and impossible to transfer money to Syria, by bank as well as by post.
An acquaintance who has been to Syria several times during the war, transferred 1000 kroner to a travel companion via an Australian bank prior to such a trip. In the message field, she wrote "Syria". The next day she received an emergency call from her Norwegian bank demanding a detailed justification for why she transferred the money. A bank in the USA had stopped the transaction and stated that both she and the Norwegian bank would be blacklisted, and the money would be confiscated. Confiscated! It is thus the purest gangster regime Norwegian politicians have subjugated, to the degree of speculation down to the smallest detail. Perhaps it is not so strange that politicians refuse to know?
Crime against humanity. Elvestuen went on to say that "the international community" is behind the sanctions, which is a rough record. He is trying to give the measure a legitimacy it does not have – because only about 60 countries support the sanctions: NATO / EU countries, the Arab dictatorships, Israel and some others. Several of the world's largest and most populous countries, such as China, Russia, Brazil and South Africa, support them not.
The sanctions are, as far as I can see, illegal as long as they do not have the UN on their side, such as the sanctions against North Korea. They can, because of the effects, be characterized as crimes against humanity.
Not only the Syrian government, but also the Syrian patriarchs (leaders of Greek Orthodox, Syrian Orthodox and Greek Catholic denominations) have repeatedly prayed concerned countries to end the "siege of the Syrian people". This was stated in a humanitarian appeal on August 23 last year, which states that the sanctions have been an increasing burden on Syrians since they were introduced in 2011. They "touch the entire Syrian people, especially the poor and the working people," with their needs for life. . "The poverty and suffering of the Syrian people is constantly increasing." The appeal ends like this: "Allow these people to live in dignity which is a basic right to all the peoples of the world."
I recall similar sanctions against Iraq in the 90s, which killed half a million children. Madeleine Albright, the then US Secretary of State, was notorious for saying she thought "it was worth it".
Norwegian politicians could have simply said: "We were wrong."
Are the sanctions against Syria "worth it", Solhjell, Elvestuen, Stoltenberg, Brende and Jensen? Why, in the case? You have not succeed in achieving their goal: to overthrow Assad. This should only take a few months, you said in 2011-12.
It must end in Norway and the West's arrogance towards other countries; the unwillingness to understand and recognize the positive aspects of these countries. Negative moves should be tried to find the causes. The politicians' vocabulary sometimes resembles that of the former colonialists.
Was warned. Gaddafi, Assad and Putin have long said that the "democracy advocates" in Libya and Syria come from Al Qaeda and similar terrorist organizations. Norwegian media and politicians have suffered from them, despite the fact that the Libyan and Syrian authorities obviously know more about the "opposition" in their own countries than anyone here in Norway. The three mentioned heads of state warned that war would lead to terrorism in Europe as well as large flows of refugees. Norwegian media and politicians turned the deaf ear on and continued their lying demonization of the country's authorities. Today we know that Gaddafi, Assad and Putin were right. Bottom line, in similar situations, we should listen more to locally known political leaders, and less to western politicians.
The announcer is a popular person, at least in the party speeches. Norway could have become an announcer in the world community. Norwegian politicians could have demanded the same by themselves as by rulers in other countries. They could have simply said, “We were wrong. We had no idea that the sanctions would have such dire consequences. We thought it would be over in a few months. Now they have to quit before they do even more damage. "
But politicians do not admit wrong without being pressured into it. In other words: The job remains.
