July 25, 11:00 AM EDT - Zoom
International Peace Coalition #112 - Oasis Plan for Palestine and Israel: Peace Through Mutual Development!
We encourage all members of the human race who wish to have true peace join with Prof. Richard Falk (former UN Special Rapporteur for the Occupied Territories of Palestine); Dr. Mubarak Awad Co-Founder of Non-violence International; Ray McGovern, reports from organizers around the world and others.
Friends of the International Peace Coalition,
A rightful addition to U.S. criminal law in the 1960s came when “depraved indifference” was added as a new category recognized for criminal culpability, mostly used in prosecuting cases of individual homicide. Today, we are seeing “depraved toleration” on a mass scale, by government officials and populations in the U.S., the U.K., Europe and elsewhere, to the genocide in Gaza, perpetrated by the Netanyahu regime. There can be no excuse for tolerating what is happening in Gaza, given the reports broadcast on the media, from doctors, and many others, of scenes of suffering and death. Over 2 million people are in the process of being exterminated.
In this regard, two shifts concerning world reaction have taken place in recent hours. A top Vatican official has spoken out severely, comparing what Israel is doing to the Palestinians in Gaza with what the Nazis did to the Jews.
Secondly, a new statement was released from Paris by the Schiller Institute-France, for rapid, widespread circulation. Titled “Oasis Plan for Palestine and Israel; Peace through Mutual Development!” the statement accompanies this transmission. This Schiller Institute initiative contributes to what must be done, as the countdown is underway for the UN special forum in New York City, a week from today, “On the Two-State Solution of Palestine-Israel.” The meeting is July 28-29, co-hosted by France and Saudi Arabia. The International Peace Coalition Friday, July 25—the 112th in weekly succession—is key for world mobilization.
Cardinal Augusto Paolo Lojudice, a judge on the Vatican Supreme Court, and colleague of Pope Leo XIV in the Curia for five years, gave a searing interview in today’s La Stampa newspaper. Noting that some people were shocked by the use of the term “genocide” by Pope Francis, Lojudice said, “but in Gaza we are beyond madness. The most unbridled and illogical evil is at work. The killing of children queuing for a handful of rice cries out to God for justice … in the face of the current escalation of atrocities, no one says anymore that it is right for Israel to defend itself. The massacre of the innocents cries out for vengeance to heaven. We can no longer hold back from denouncing it.”
In this context, the White House struck a pose of concern today with media spokesperson Karoline Leavitt saying that the President “wants the killing to end.” She said that fighting has become “quite brutal.” Some of the most extreme American backers of Netanyahu, such as U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee, likewise uttered a phrase of dismay. Netanyahu, after a call from Trump, uttered a few words of concern, mockingly only in English, not Hebrew and scarcely publicized in Israel. These words are a sham.
All efforts are critical right now by the International Peace Coalition to expand its reach, collaboration, and impact, to put before the world the needed Oasis Plan approach. Today’s statement says of the upcoming July 28-29 UN conference in New York:
“The conference has to create the framework for peace among Palestinians and Israelis by arriving this time at concrete initiatives in coherence with the humanist principles of the Abrahamic traditions (Islam, Judaism and Christianity), with international law and the Charter of the UN…. Recognizing and creating a Palestinian State is an absolute necessity. Giving it sovereignty over its water and energy resources will be one of the indispensable pillars to turn a dream into reality. It is our proposal for an ‘Oasis Plan’ of mutually beneficial development.
“This perspective has to be adopted to the benefit of all participants of Southwest Asia who have to define its modalities and the means of its application.
“As early as 1975, American statesman and economist Lyndon LaRouche had proposed the Oasis Plan to address the geological realities of the people of Israel, Palestine and Jordan, who inhabit an arid region located at the connection of three continents. The essential developments of water infrastructure to make the deserts bloom, and transportation connectivity to allow the blossoming of trade and production, were central to his vision of economic development plans required for political solutions to be reached.
“Such a plan is contrary to British geopolitics and colonial powers. The Oasis Plan approach defines a development perspective that goes, as it must do, beyond the plans of the World Bank, the French proposals and those of the Arab League.
“It takes inspiration from the Reconciliation Commission created by Nelson Mandela to overcome apartheid.”
Five concrete actions are called for: an immediate ceasefire; release of hostages and prisoners; immediate reinstatement of humanitarian aid and supply of water and electricity; and, immediate recognition of a Palestinian state as a full member of the UN.
The effort of the International Peace Coalition is all-important. Confer and mobilize with the IPC on July 25 at its next meeting.
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