A Chance to Sponsor Mideast Peace

Syria, a peace-loving country, has been for decades working for the restoration of the Israeli occupied Golan. Syria’s participation in Madrid Peace process on the basis of UN Security Council resolutions 242 and 338  has led to progress regarding the restoration of the Golan.

Syria’s work for peace has been accompanied with her repeated calls for the freeing of Mideast region from all Mass destruction Weapons MDWs. As a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council, Syria presented a proposal to rid the region from MDWs in 2003. Unfortunately, such proposal was shelved by the USA, which has been lobbying and threatening Syrians of launching attacks against them, not to mention the US covert as well as overt alliance with al-Qaeda affiliates as to destroy the secular Syria.

With this in mind, Syria has recently joined the chemical Weapons Convention (CWC)  and out of its latent desire for peace, stability and tranquility. Syria is indeed keen on the realization of the just and comprehensive peace in the Middle East. Hopefully, others would recognize that in the global village of today, it is peace and only peace which can deter as well as secure all.

Thus, the US Administration of Mr. Barrack Obama has a chance now to sponsor  peace, instead of sword-rattling and war crimes. A U.S.-led attack on Syria without United Nations support would be a war crime regardless of congressional approval, Noam Chomsky, the antiwar activist and author, said in response to President Barack Obama’s announcement that he would seek Hill approval.

“As international support for Obama’s decision to attack Syria has collapsed, along with the credibility of government claims, the administration has fallen back on a standard pretext for war crimes when all else fails: the credibility of the threats of the self-designated policeman of the world,” Chomsky told HuffPost in an email.

 Dr. Mohammad Abdo Al-Ibrahim