I crashed the meeting of a lobbying front that ended the life-saving General License 2023 on Syria, and is now pushing to extend Washington's economic war for another 8 years.Behind closed doors, the former State Department official leading the workshop revealed the group's ultimate goal:
partitioning Syria and creating a de facto Caliphate for a rebranded Al Qaeda offshoot.This July 30, I registered under an alias to join a workshop organized by the
Syrian American Council (SAC), the leading voice of the lobby that
aims to starve and destabilize Syria into submission to the West's demands. The workshop instructed SAC members to advocate for the most recent
Syria regime change bill, H.R. 3202, during those visits.
During the seminar, I was able to witness firsthand the impact of the anti-Syria lobby and understand the cynical tactics it employs to condemn the population of Syria to poverty and famine.
Most recently, the lobby successfully ended the life-saving sanctions exemption known as
General License 23 (GL 23), which allowed humanitarian aid into Syria following the catastrophic earthquake that struck the country this February. The lobby succeeded in
ending GL 23 by pushing a lie that workshop leaders repeated without end:
"the sanctions only affect the Syrian government and not the people."In truth, the sanctions have done incalculable damage to the Syrian people, as the UN's Special Rapporteur on sanctions, Alena Douhan, noted in an interview with The Grayzone in 2021. Relaying the words of a civilian she'd spoken with earlier that day, Douhan explained that
"the impact of unilateral sanctions on the Syrian population can be pretty equivalent to those of the conflict itself."
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