Yesterday’s International Peace Coalition meeting, addressed by
Schiller Institute chairwoman Helga Zepp-LaRouche, focused in large
part on the Feb. 4 meeting between President Donald Trump and Israeli
Prime Minisiter Bibi Netanyahu, particularly Trump’s remarks that the
U.S. would lead a massive deportation (i.e. ethnic cleansing)
operation in the Gaza Strip clearing millions of Palestinians while
relocating them to Jordan, Egypt, Indonesia, and other nations. Of
course, Netanyahu smiled gleefully at Trump’s proposal. ” Helga
Zepp-LaRouche, speaking at the meeting of the International Peace
Coalition pointed out that “U.S. National Security Advisor Mike Waltz
said that since this is the only proposal and Trump’s proposal is the
best proposal; he said: ‘The fact is that nobody has a realistic
solution, and he [Trump] put some very bold fresh new ideas out on the
table, I don’t think should be criticized in any way. It’s going to
bring the entire region to come up with their own solutions if they
don’t like Mr. Trump’s solutions. But one of the key points President
Trump made last night was “tell me what real better alternatives they
have ever been offered.”’”
These “bold, fresh new ideas” are nothing but the recycling of
British geopolitical thinking which has prevented Southwest Asia from
becoming a prosperous region of the world and taking its dutiful place
as the main hub of transport, commerce, and trade between the
continents of Europe, Africa, and Asia. Instead of taking a page from
Halford Mackinder, Zbiginiew Brzezinski, and Sir Henry Kissinger,
Trump’s team would do better to listen to the wise policy-formulations
of Lyndon LaRouche for Southwest Asia, particularly his “Oasis Plan”
to provide fresh water, nuclear power, and agriculture to Israel,
Palestine, along with its neighbors. The militarist “Iron Wall” policy
proposed by the British Zionist tool Vladimir Jabotinsky of crushing
the Palestinians has not worked, and has only destroyed Israel’s
reputation worldwide. A shift from geopolitical thinking to mutually
beneficial, win-win policies is needed now from the United States and
the West, which in turn must involve cooperation with Russia, China,
and the BRICS+ nations to transform what has been an utter tragedy for
the Palestinian people and the region.
This problem of changing axioms was clearly stated by Russian
Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in his recent article published in
“Russia in Global Affairs” titled, “The UN Charter Should Become the
Legal Foundation of a Multipolar World.” Lavrov says, “Multipolarity
is gaining momentum and, instead of opposing it, the U.S. could in the
foreseeable future become a responsible center of power along with
Russia, China, and other states in the Global South, East, North, and
West. For the moment, it seems that the new U.S. administration will
be launching cowboy raids to test the existing UN-centric system’s
limits and durability versus American interests. But I am sure that
this administration, too, will soon understand that international
reality is much more complex than the caricatures that it is free to
deploy before internal American audiences or obedient geopolitical
allies.”
That system which Lavrov describes is emerging in the Global South
and the East has been described by Russian President Vladimir Putin as
a “polyphonic” system:
“It is my deep conviction that the only new international system
possible is one embracing polyphony, where many tones and many musical
themes are sounded together to form harmony.”
Let us work to make
that polyphonic world order a reality.
Our Manhattan Town Hall will feature Harley Schlanger, TLO
Spokesman, and UK Column editor Mike Robinson.