The US military intervention in Syrian territory, under the pretext of combat against the group called "Islamic State", constitutes a new step in the escalation of interference and aggression against Syria, an attack against its sovereignty and represents a direct threat to the territorial integrity of this country.
The PCP considers that this new military escalation led by the US – once again based on a campaign of hypocrisy and lies, ignoring International Law and in disrespect for the United Nations Charter –raises serious questions about the future of Iraq and entails new and tragic dangers for the peoples of the Middle East.
This situation is tied to the policy of Israeli aggression and occupation against Palestine, Lebanon and Syria, part of whose territory – the Golan Heights – is illegally occupied by Israel.
PCP recalls that the US with its allies in NATO and the region – like Israel and the Golf dictatorships – have been promoting, financing and arming, for over three years, groups such as those united around the so-called "ISIS" and that are used to spread terror and destruction in the region.
If the US with its allies wanted to effectively fight terrorists groups that assail the populations of Syria and Iraq they should start by stopping their political, financial and military support to these groups and end its instrumentalization to destabilize the region and assault sovereign states that do not submit to imperialism's projects of domination.
What is necessary is the solidarity and the support to the peoples, like the Syrian and Iraqi, afflicted by the barbaric action of these groups, and to clearly reject, under the pretext of fighting against the latter, the development of processes of interference, aggression and war motivated by the strategic interests of the US.
As PCP has underlined, the end of the escalation of violence that threatens to drag the peoples of Syria and Iraq into an even greater disaster demands the respect for their national sovereignties and not new military adventures, from which Portugal, according to its Constitution and the Charter of the UN, should resolutely distance itself and firmly condemn.
