Noor Noman: Syria sanctions are stopping vital aid from helping earthquake victims.
In anarticle published last month, prior to the earthquake, co-authors political economist Karam Shaar and humanitarian crisis analyst Said Dimashqi argue that sanctions on Syria need to be re-evaluated precisely because they have demonstrated their inability to bring about their desired effect, while maximizing harm to ordinary Syrians.
Sanctions on Syria need to be re-evaluated precisely because they have demonstrated their inability to bring about their desired effect, while maximizing harm to ordinary Syrians. Currently, Assad insists on aid entering through and being distributed via the capital, Damascus. But as the area of the country devastated by the earthquake predominantly remains under opposition control, distribution of aid is limited. And it is precisely these types of constraints that make financial support in the form of remittances, for example, all the more imperative.
The Western media has been quick to paint a two-dimensional narrative, in which Assad is the villain and the West is exonerated for its role in worsening the crisis. For instance, portions of the subheading on a New York Times article was changed from “Syria is not able to receive direct aid from many countries because of sanctions” to “the Syrian government tightly controls what aid it lets into opposition-held areas” the following day, evincing the curation of editorial spin.
The only commonsense response to Syria is to, indeed, re-evaluate the West’s hard-line sanctions approach and to open up every channel possible for the flow of resources to ordinary Syrians and organizations doing work on the ground. The status quo has been largely inhumane and also just bad policy.
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