There are many
reasons one can put forward for why the tenuous peace deal struck in
Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, between the Israeli delegation and
representatives of Hamas can easily implode, given the lack of
stability in the region and Bibi Netanyahu’s proclivity to violate
agreements. The attacks on Doha, Qatar, on Sept. 9, which attempted to
assassinate representatives of Hamas’ delegation even as they convened
to meet with their Israeli counterparts to discuss aspects of a future
peace deal, demonstrate why there is certainly a reason to be
skeptical.
What is needed, however, is not doubt,
or ‘hot takes’ to be thrown into a “paupers’ stew” of endless
commentary on the peace agreement, but immediate action to create and
then exploit a phase-shift in the region. What is needed is to
overturn “the grand chessboard” established by more than a century of
British imperial tactics in the Middle East, such as the secret 1916
Sykes-Picot Agreement, designed to pit different groups, all of them
despised by the British, against each other, following the collapse of
the Ottoman Empire.
Helga Zepp-LaRouche, in her
international webcast on Oct. 15, made clear that, “[E]verything now
depends on changing the parameters for good, and I think that the most
important thing that we can do, and you can do … [is] to put the Oasis
Plan on the agenda in a major way. If there would be an agreement by
all the neighbors … that the hundred years of violence and tension has
to be overcome by putting in a perspective of development for
all—because the new name for peace is development—then I think there
can be a change in the situation. Indeed, I think this region could
reconnect to the great tradition it had in the times of the ancient
Silk Road, when Southwest Asia was a hub for the connection and trade
among Asia, Europe, and Africa. That is exactly what the Oasis Plan
would be the beginning of. … The best, and maybe only way, you can end
this conflict is to lift the entire discussion on a completely new
level, where you have an economic development plan where everybody
participates.”
In today’s inaugural broadcast of
the Executive Intelligence Review webcast, an interview was shown
between Helga Zepp-LaRouche and H. E. Ambassador Prof. Dr. Manuel
Hassassian, the ambassador from the Palestinian Authority to Denmark.
The Ambassador had responded to Helga’s question on the feasibility of
the implementation of the Oasis Plan, saying that now was the best
time to do it, and that the basis of long-lasting peace could be
established by laying the groundwork for the economic development of
the entire region, not just Israel or
Palestine.
The Executive Intelligence Review is
launching a new streaming program, several days a week. It will
feature EIR’s strategic picture, and commentaries and interviews on
current history with prominent and suppressed thinkers. Our mission is
to rapidly build this in the immediate days and weeks ahead to
re-introduce the science of physical economy, qualitatively advanced
by the economic writings and proposals of Lyndon LaRouche, into the
practice of diplomacy.
While humanity is at a
crossroads, let us step, not away from, but over the abyss, by putting
forward a real vision for peace and development. We must throw the
British Empire and their evil philosophy of ‘Geopolitics’ out of the
region, and aspire to a new paradigm of relations between sovereign
nation-states. |
