Just days after the latest ultimatum by the Arab League to allow international observers into the nation slipped, the league today announced major sanctions against the Syrian government, complete with a freeze on their assets and a travel ban for several top Syrian officials.
Though experts say neither Iraq nor Lebanon are likely to respect the sanctions, the broad consensus over most of the Arab League is a significant blow to the regime as well as to the Syrian economy, already struggling in the face of mass protests.
As usual, however, the Syrian state media is downplaying the seriousness of the move, instead trumpeting pro-regime rallies held in the capital city of condemn the Arab League’s actions and insisting that it amounted to “foreign interference in Syria’s domestic affairs.”
Interestingly, Syria initially agreed to allow the observers in at the beginning of the month, saying it would disprove Western allegations of violence against civilians. Immediately after the agreement the violence escalated dramatically, however, and they backed out of the deal.
I wonder what other instructions the quizzling Arab League will be undertaking from their American and Israeli masters to further hurt Syria and bring them under the heel of American/israeli and Eutopean oppressio and slavery? Strange that they did not see fit to boycot the Americans as they slaughtered the Iraqi's by the hundreds of thousands in the illegal invasion of that Arab country back in 2003. What a disgusting bunch of treasonous bastards to their people.
Arab League should impose all and everything toward Israel and stop plying fools.., this and their history in betraying their people making them the west slaves as they been for last 40 years. These people never had slides thoughts in being independent nor for some of them like UAE tyrants hand in hand with Saudis leave their slavery method behind and face the new century.., helping the Arab nations should been their priority but look what they been doing to Iraq now Libya and again Syria .
For west however the "governments" or should I say tyrants Kingdom families and stupidest whom are running a country or those within the leagues who vote for NATO bombing an Arab nation is always been a opportunity to forward the west world domination – agendas by using these barbarians system.., behind the west dividing peoples and conquer ideas is Paul Wolfowitz and others a like.., the Arab league simply been fooled by the notion that west is about democracy and that Syria or other governments are against them.., not knowing that they might be the next target of the west and by the west.
Thank you Tatiana. You are also expressing my outrage at idiotic, despotic, hypocritic Arab rulers.