The Syrian Foreign Ministry of President Bashar Assad delivered two letters post haste Sept. 6 to UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon and to the Chairman of the UN Security Council Vitaly Churkin, that attack in withering terms, the mootings by British Prime Minister David Cameron and other members of his government over the past 72 hours, that Britain may engage in a bombing campaign on Syrian territory, purportedly against ISIS.

The letters, as paraphrased by the government’s Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA), note that “The British government has no right to preach to others about democracy, human rights, and combating terrorism, when it itself has employed all its capabilities and brought into play its ‘colonialist experience’ in providing all forms of support, including financially, militarily, politically and media-wise, to the terrorist organizations in Syria.

“The fact that the British government has sent terrorists and extremists to Syria, such as its national ‘John, the ISIS Slaughterer,’ and harbored over tens of years others like Abu Qatada and Omar Abdel-Rahman, reveals Britain’s political hypocrisy and the falseness of its claims about promoting democracy, fighting terrorism and protecting human rights.”

The letters state that the activity by the British government, including its Foreign Office, with respect to Syria is that of “providing direct support to the terrorist organizations.” Britain “contradicts the countries’ duty of defending their territories and people under the UN Charter and in accordance with the international law and the Security Council resolutions.”

The Syrian Foreign Ministry letters conclude that “Britain should rather preach to itself, especially because it is a permanent member state of the UN Security Council, before preaching to others, since many people, including of the region’s countries and those of Asia, the Middle East and Latin America, are up till now suffering from the colonialist policies of Britain and other colonialist states.”

The Syrians have put their finger on the colonial and war-provoking policy of Her Majesty’s government, which has orchestrated wars in Iraq, Libya, Syria, Afghanistan, Yemen, as well as Ukraine, which could trigger a global war of nuclear annihilation. 

Sahra Wagenknecht and Dietmar Bartsch, deputy parliamentary group leaders of Germany’s main (leftist) opposition party Die Linke, have blamed Western countries for being the main cause for the current refugee crisis that Europe is grappling with—its biggest refugee challenge since the Second World War. “Western countries under the leadership of the United States have destabilized entire regions by making terrorist organizations, among other things, possible and exploiting them…. Anyone who turns the Near and Middle East into a hot spot with wars, drone terror, weapons supplies and conscious destabilization, is to blame for millions of humans having to leave their homeland.”

They said, “gangs of murderers, such as the Islamic State (IS), were indirectly supported and supplied with money and weapons by countries allied with Germany, which has brought millions of people into brutal wars and civil wars.” Wagenknecht and Bartsch criticized Chancellor Merkel for her conduct, saying that “if the Federal government just had a minimum of courage, it would demand that the U.S.A., being the main cause of the refugee tragedy, should at least shoulder a share of the cost.”

In addition, the two politicians call for an immediate end to German arms exports and for an increase of Germany’s development aid as well as its contribution to the UN World Food Program—which has warned that it will have to cut aid to refugee camps for lack of funds to buy food and medicine. Against the background of the ongoing refugee streams, the WFP is dangerously underfunded, as are related UN programs in general.

In Austria, the far-right opposition Freedom Party (FPO) has blamed the United States and the NATO military alliance for triggering the refugee crisis. “The U.S.A. and NATO have destroyed Iraq and Libya with their military intervention, bombs and missiles; provided financial, logistical and military support to the opposition against President Assad in Syria, and thus made possible the destruction, chaos, suffering and radical Islamism (IS) in the region,” Heinz-Christian Strache said on his Facebook page. “The U.S.A. for decades has started fires in the Middle East, and then has the chutzpah to claim that responsibility for the flood of refugees unleashed lies with Europe. That’s geostrategic detribalization at its finest,” he wrote.