{"id":110633,"date":"2025-06-29T09:42:53","date_gmt":"2025-06-29T13:42:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/?p=110633"},"modified":"2025-06-29T09:49:56","modified_gmt":"2025-06-29T13:49:56","slug":"peace-is-the-natural-vocation-of-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/it\/blog\/2025\/06\/29\/peace-is-the-natural-vocation-of-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Peace Is the Natural Vocation of Man"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Report on IPC Meeting No.&nbsp;108<br><\/em><br>June 28, 2025 (EIRNS)\u2014The 108th consecutive weekly online meeting of the International Peace Coalition, on Friday, June 27 was opened by Helga Zepp-LaRouche, founder of the Schiller Institute, who gave an update on the war in Iran. She questioned President Trump\u2019s triumphal proclamations of success, saying that \u201cit is very likely that the Iranians foresaw what was happening\u201d and removed equipment and materials from the targeted sites before they were bombed. She charged that \u201cthe International Atomic Energy Agency has, for the time being, lost all credibility,\u201d because they helped shape an environment that aided those who wanted an attack on Iran. We also need an investigation into Palantir and the use of AI in this regard. Worst of all is the damage to International Law by an unprovoked war of aggression, lowering the barrier to similar acts by other nations. She contrasted the hyperventilating about Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine to Trump\u2019s bragging about his unprovoked attack on Iran, saying, \u201cIt is apparent to the whole world that this double standard exists\u2026. Lawlessness is now ruling.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"IPC #108: U.S. Has Opened a Pandora&amp;apos;s Box\" width=\"860\" height=\"484\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FgI0kGfuReg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Turning to her homeland of Germany, she said she was appalled by Chancellor Merz\u2019s statement that \u201cIsrael is doing the dirty work for all of us.\u201d \u201cIt reveals the colonial or neocolonial mindset on the part of Merz,\u201d Zepp-LaRouche observed. Finally, she emphasized that the call by Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, for a new international strategic architecture, is of crucial importance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Former U.S. Congressman and Presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich strongly agreed, saying, \u201cWe have to recognize that the security architecture which is in place right now has been shredded.\u201d He called the yearning of the neocons for a regime change in Iran a \u201cfantasy\u201d which would require an invasion with two million troops and a return to conscription in the U.S. \u201cThe unbridled use of the military is a challenge for the United States right now,\u201d he said. Further echoing Zepp-LaRouche, he said that \u201cthe West is still up to their old colonial tricks.\u201d Kucinich described the situation as being very dangerous but filled with great potential for good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Graham Fuller, a former U.S. diplomat, CIA official, and Islamic scholar, presented his own assessment of the war against Iran, saying that \u201cthis was a serious loss for Israel.\u201d Israel has been claiming that Iran was on the verge of nuclear weapons for 25 years, but now \u201cNetanyahu is not going to be able to fear-monger on this same issue again.\u201d Israel thought they could act with impunity; they did not expect Iran to retaliate so successfully. \u201cThe idea of the very invulnerability of Israel has been called into question,\u201d said Fuller, adding that \u201cthe idea of Israel as an unsinkable aircraft carrier for the United States has been shattered.\u201d The U.S. has tried to exploit Sunni-Shi\u2019a conflicts, but was outflanked by Chinese diplomacy, which pulled off the reconciliation between Iran and Saudi Arabia. The entire Persian Gulf supported Iran in this recent war. In Fuller\u2019s view, Iran\u2019s response to a savage attack by the U.S. was \u201cextraordinarily muted,\u201d a cause for optimism, and \u201cTrump has proven his masculinity \u2026 maybe now feels that he can step back and try diplomacy to seek rapprochement with Iran.\u201d Another cause for optimism was the victory of Zohran Mamdani in the New York City election, where maybe we see hints of a world that is no longer dominated by settler colonialism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mossi Raz, former Israeli Knesset member and former Director-General of Peace Now, opined that we don\u2019t really know the results of war on Iran, but it\u2019s not that important. What\u2019s important is that there be a political agreement for lasting peace. We need a two-state solution, because \u201cthe Israelis will not have security if the Palestinians don\u2019t have security.\u201d He reported on an important pre-discussion he participated in before the now soon-to-be-rescheduled UN Palestinian two-state meeting. Raz described that hundreds of Palestinians and Israelis joined to discuss the two-state solution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In response, Zepp-LaRouche expressed her concern about what will happen when Trump\u2019s boasts of success are disproven by events. She is worried that the neocons will press for a resumption of the war. She warned about the unchecked use of AI for military purposes, which could have unforeseeable consequences. She added later that AI is technology like any other, it can be used for good or evil, but we must focus on the moral character of the people who are using it. We need to convince leaders in the U.S. and Europe to join with the Global Majority, and \u201cstop the geopolitical idea of domination.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Activist Reports from Around the World<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Carolina Dom\u00ednguez of the Mexican LaRouche movement, described a planned conference at an important university, where they will discuss the Oasis Plan and the movement\u2019s perspective of peace through development. She described an approach she called \u201cclassrooming,\u201d in which organizers visit classrooms and ask the professor for one minute in which to brief the students on the strategic crisis, then meet them outside afterward for in-depth discussions. She said that they will be presenting a performance of classical music works by their chorus at the upcoming conference, to serve the need to \u201cennoble the soul of the population\u201d in order to achieve peace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kynan Thistlethwaite reported from France, and Anastasia Battle from Germany, on the John Quincy Adams Brigade, comprised of Americans organizing in Europe to prepare for the&nbsp;<a href=\"\/?page_id=110200\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Berlin conference<\/a>&nbsp;of the Schiller Institute on July 12-13.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tim Rush and Jose Vega reported on organizing activities in the U.S. There were also reports from Denmark, Sweden, and other locations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Discussion<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An unusual question was sent to the panelists: If the criminal charges in Israel against Netanyahu could be canceled, as Trump demands, would that reduce his motivation for starting regional wars? Co-moderator Dennis Small said we must look at the hand behind the scenes, typified by the \u201cClean Break\u201d document that was issued in 1996 to then newly elected Prime Minister Netanyahu by U.S. neocons after the Nov.&nbsp;4, 1995 assassination of Yitzhak Rabin. Fuller added that those who follow the situation closely know that Netanyahu is not even the most murderous politician in the Israeli establishment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Zepp-LaRouche reported on her participation in a recent conference in Spain, which featured an encouraging level of youth participation, and representation from many nations and cultures. In response to a question about the economic impetus for war, she said, \u201cAs long as people are trying to solve their debt by wars, we are on a trajectory toward catastrophe.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Eric Rubin, of the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ilfngo.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">International Legal Forum<\/a>, an independent, Israel-based NGO, reported on the activities of his group to activate UN Resolution 377 (United for Peace) to circumvent the U.S. veto in the Security Council. He said that the only way to stop atrocity on the Palestinians is to send UN peacekeeping troops into the occupied territories. Their website can be accessed here: https:\/\/www.ilfngo.org\/.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In conclusion, Zepp-LaRouche said, \u201cI\u2019m absolutely certain that we will only get out of this really deplorable situation by mobilizing the better visions of what mankind can be.\u201d Returning to her participation in the June 25 Madrid conference, she reported that people from entirely different backgrounds all said that what we need is love for humanity. The ideas of Schiller, that people have the capacity to become Beautiful Souls, are the natural vocation of Man. The 10th, and possibly the most controversial, principle of her Ten Principles for a New International Security and Development Architecture, is that Man is good by nature. We should have compassion for the&nbsp;<em>Armselige<\/em>, the wretched creatures who think that we need war. 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