Feb.14 2025, 11 am EDT/ 5 pm CET
Ending the Cycle of Violence in Southwest Asia Requires Creating a Future for All its Inhabitants
We are honored to have Her Excellency Naledi Pandor, former Minister of International Relations and Cooperation of South Africa, and others to be announced joining us this Friday.
Friends of the International Peace Coalition,
The events of the past sixteen months in Gaza have presented unimaginable levels of horror and bloodshed. Not for eighty years has the world witnessed the kind of cold-blooded destruction of life that the Netanyahu government Israel has unleashed there—properly called a “genocide” by South Africa’s historic case at the International Court of Justice—with the full political backing and provision of arms from the United States. This has been made all the more painful by the absurd notion from some in the U.S. and Israel that the only way to secure a lasting peace here is for Gazans to be permanently expelled from their land—a notion that has received almost universal condemnation from around the world.
Now is the time to organize for new, profound solutions to this crisis. As U.S. National Security Advisor Mike Waltz said of Trump’s Gaza relocation proposal, “nobody has a realistic solution” other than Trump, adding that others should “come up with their own solutions if they don’t like Mr. Trump’s.” The International Peace Coalition is taking up Mr. Waltz’s proposal.
This Friday, Feb. 14, the International Peace Coalition is holding a special event on the emergency in Gaza and Southwest Asia as a whole. There is a solution to end the cycle of violence and create a future for all people in the region—the LaRouche Oasis Plan—which proposes to transform the region through actual economic development for all. This, along with a needed two-state solution, can create the conditions for long-term peace in this region. A solution of this type in Southwest Asia would be exemplary of the kind of new security and development architecture which Helga Zepp-LaRouche has repeatedly advocated for on a global scale, as enunciated in her Ten Principles.
As Her Excellency Naledi Pandor said while speaking at a Schiller Institute conference in December 2024: “it is incumbent on all of us to adopt the ideas set out in the Schiller Institute development framework to really ensure that all the aspects of human endeavor which advance human progress are embraced by governments in the South as well as governments in the North. We should encourage a new human relation across the world; one that is devoted to empowering all human beings and ensuring that we develop a more prosperous, a more engaged, a more skilled humanity able to address the fundamental problems that confront all of us. Because alongside the problems, we have a human capacity—an ingenuity—of problem resolution; and we need to unite in drawing that capacity together.”
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