{"id":302764,"date":"2017-04-08T06:03:23","date_gmt":"2017-04-08T05:03:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/german-politicians-and-media-push-for-war-with-damascus\/"},"modified":"2017-04-08T06:03:23","modified_gmt":"2017-04-08T05:03:23","slug":"german-politicians-and-media-push-for-war-with-damascus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/german-politicians-and-media-push-for-war-with-damascus\/","title":{"rendered":"German politicians and media push for war with Damascus"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h2>German politicians and media push for war with Damascus<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    By<br \/>\n    Johannes Stern<br \/>\n    <br \/>8 April 2017<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p>In the aftermath of the alleged gas attack in the Syrian province of Idlib, German politicians and media outlets have switched to war mode. Although the circumstances remain entirely unclear and everything points to an imperialist provocation, the German government and other European powers are advocating the overthrow of the Assad regime and a confrontation with Russia.<\/p>\n<p>On the sidelines of the Syrian donor summit in Brussels on Wednesday, German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel described the gas attack in Syria as a \u201cbarbaric war crime\u201d and demanded retaliation. \u201cThose responsible for this barbarism in the Assad regime must be held accountable. And there can be no alignment with the Assad regime\u2014even in the struggle against the terrorists of the so-called \u2018Islamic State\u2019,\u201d he said. \u201cAs an ally of the Assad regime,\u201d Russia bore \u201cparticular responsibility.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gabriel left no doubt that the chief goal of the imperialist powers in Syria is the overthrow of Assad. The struggle against Islamic State was \u201cimportant,\u201d but it could \u201cnot be permitted to push the fight against the crimes of the civil war in Syria, torture, poison gas attacks, into the background.\u201d The \u201cpolitical process for a new constitution, free elections and a democratic end to the Assad regime\u201d was \u201cthe precondition for permanent peace in the region.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It is a cynical lie for the German government to claim that it is interested in \u201cdemocracy,\u201d \u201cpeace\u201d and \u201chuman rights\u201d in the Middle East. It was made public over recent days that the German military supplied the coordinates for a massacre in Syria that killed at least 33, including women and children.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike the war in Libya in&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2017\/04\/08\/germ-a08.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 German politicians and media push for war with Damascus By Johannes Stern 8 April 2017 In the aftermath of the alleged gas attack in the Syrian province of Idlib, German politicians and media outlets have switched to war mode. Although the circumstances remain entirely unclear and everything points to an imperialist provocation, the German [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-302764","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302764\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}