{"id":100969,"date":"2024-03-02T10:34:27","date_gmt":"2024-03-02T15:34:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/?p=100969"},"modified":"2024-03-02T10:34:30","modified_gmt":"2024-03-02T15:34:30","slug":"international-peace-coalition-march-1-meeting-warns-we-are-sitting-on-a-powder-keg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/ru\/blog\/2024\/03\/02\/international-peace-coalition-march-1-meeting-warns-we-are-sitting-on-a-powder-keg\/","title":{"rendered":"International Peace Coalition March 1 Meeting Warns, \u2018We Are Sitting on a Powder Keg\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

by Daniel Platt<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

March 1, 2024 (EIRNS)\u2014The International Peace Coalition (IPC) met today for its 39th consecutive weekly organizing discussion. Schiller Institute founder Helga Zepp-LaRouche<\/strong> warned that \u201cthe situation is moving from horrible to worse\u2026.\u201d<\/em> Reviewing the events of the previous few days, she called attention to the massacre where Israeli troops opened fire on hundreds of starving Palestinians who were waiting for food aid southwest of Gaza City, killing 120 and wounding 750 on Feb.\u00a029. In response to Israel Defense Forces statements that their soldiers felt threatened, she said, \u201cI can\u2019t imagine how starving people can be a threat to a highly weaponized army.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This event occurred a few days after Aaron Bushnell self-immolated outside the front gate of the Embassy of Israel in Washington, D.C, in protest against the ongoing genocide in Gaza. Also during the past week, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) at The Hague heard from 50 nations on the legal consequences of Israel\u2019s \u201cprolonged occupation, settlement and annexation\u201d of the occupied territories, including the West Bank and East Jerusalem, but will not render judgement until the summer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Discussing the Likud regime\u2019s apparent objective of driving the Palestinians over the border into Egypt, Zepp-LaRouche warned that this violates the tenets of the Camp David Accords and opens the door to a wider war. Under these circumstances, the implementation of the Oasis Plan<\/strong><\/a>, as proposed by her late husband, Lyndon LaRouche, in 1975, becomes more urgent than ever before, because if you don\u2019t inject hope into the situation, she said, there is no remedy for the rapidly worsening regional conflict.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turning to the Ukraine war, she said that the danger there was greatly escalating, bringing us even more quickly to a possible global war. French President Macron has proposed to send NATO troops into Ukraine, while retired German General Harald Kujat recently charged that there are already NATO troops in Ukraine (in the role of \u201cadvisors,\u201d as was the case with the initial American involvement in the Vietnam War.) German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has refused to send Taurus missiles to Ukraine, because their 500-km range would enable direct attacks on Russia. Russian President Vladimir Putin warns of possible nuclear war, but the Western press pooh-poohs his warnings. Russia Today<\/a><\/strong><\/em> has released the full text of what is claimed to be a discussion by senior German military officers on how to attack the Crimean Bridge in Russia<\/a><\/strong>. Russia\u2019s government press spokesperson, Maria Zakharova, is said to have demanded an explanation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Zepp-LaRouche<\/strong> concluded by saying that the only good news she could offer was the election victory of George Galloway, who just won a seat in British Parliament on the issue of opposition to the war in Gaza.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jacques Cheminade<\/strong>, who leads the Solidarity and Progress Party in France, commented on the declaration by Macron on sending NATO troops to Ukraine, saying that it has been judged insane by a majority of French population. \u201cHe\u2019s like a little dwarf playing with fire,\u201d<\/em> said Cheminade. Illustrating the absurdity of the situation, he reminded the discussion participants that Europe is still importing Russian LNG and enriched uranium. According to experts, the French, and probably also the German, armies are capable of fighting a war with Russia for only seven days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr.\u00a0James Cobey<\/strong>, who shared in the Nobel Peace Prize in 1997 for the International Campaign to Ban Land Mines,<\/em> described his project to create a \u201cPalestinian Embassy\u201d<\/em> in Washington, D.C., which he called a potential \u201cAIPAC for Palestine.\u201d<\/em> His partner in this effort is Miko Peled<\/strong>, the son of an Israeli general who fought in the 1967 Six Day War, but then became an advocate for an Israeli dialogue with the Palestine Liberation Organization after the Israeli cabinet ignored his investigation of a 1967 alleged Israeli war crime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Next the participants viewed a video presentation by Nazih Musharbash<\/strong>, President of the German Palestinian Society<\/em>. He said that the Jan.\u00a026, 2024, ICJ Order of provisional measures to prevent genocide is being rejected by Israel. Israel is pushing the Palestinian population from one place to the next, bombing them, cramming them into impossibly small places. Prime Minister Netanyahu thinks that if UNRWA is cancelled, the Palestinian \u201cRight of Return,\u201d as guaranteed under point #5 of the Oslo Accords, will no longer be a problem. The IDF\u2019s destruction of Hamas means that there is no functioning government. Regarding the massacre near Gaza City, he wryly observed that \u201cwarning shots are normally fired into the air.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

IPC Coordinator Anastasia Battle<\/strong> presented a report on the upcoming Interfaith , \u201cEmergency Conference for Peace in Gaza\u201d<\/a> <\/strong>in Detroit. In the Michigan Democratic Party presidential primary elections, a campaign was launched for voters to vote \u201cuncommitted\u201d rather than endorse Biden\u2019s enabling of genocide in Gaza. This resulted in 101,000 uncommitted votes. The next step being planned is a National Day of Action on March 2, to coincide with the Interfaith Meeting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Executive Intelligence Review Ibero-American Intelligence Director Dennis Small <\/strong>called attention to Brazilian President Lula\u2019s charge that Israel was committing genocide, and his stalwart refusal to \u201cwalk back\u201d this accusation. He read an excerpt from a recent statement by the Brazilian Foreign Ministry<\/a><\/strong>: \u201cEven so, the inaction of the international community in the face of this humanitarian tragedy continues to serve as a veiled incentive for the Netanyahu government to keep targeting innocent civilians and ignoring basic rules of international humanitarian law.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two activists from the UK<\/strong> explained the significance of the landslide victory of George Galloway and the Workers\u2019 Party, who campaigned in opposition to the genocide in Gaza. The British government is trying to suppress growing public protests, calling them a threat to public safety, but there has been no violence. Former Home Secretary Suella Braverman tried to ban them, saying they are antisemitic. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is saying that the demonstrations support terrorism. One of the activists charged that the UK is \u201ca creeping police state.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An organizer for Veterans for Peace<\/strong> reported on their campaign to circulate a letter<\/a><\/strong>, which demands that the U.S. State Department terminate weapons shipments to Israel, and calls on the Inspector General to investigate alleged criminal acts by senior Biden administration officials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A ghastly video was shown to the discussion participants, a one-minute animation<\/a><\/strong> that is being broadcast on German state public television and is targeted at German children, in which talking cartoon representations of cruise missiles debate which of them would be the most effective weapon against Russia. Helga Zepp-LaRouche<\/strong> characterized it as part of the complete indoctrination of the population to prepare them for a coming war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In concluding remarks, Zepp-LaRouche<\/strong> said that many people think the Zionist Lobby controls the U.S. But, as her late husband always said, the U.S. establishment uses Israel as a hand grenade to destabilize the region. The reason is geopolitical, a scheme to destabilize the region in order to contain the rising global majority.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Returning to the grim situation in her native land, she said, \u201cGermany is right now like a hermetically sealed country. You cannot say anything\u2026. We are sitting on a powder keg, and the ordinary population has no clue.\u201d<\/em> She urged all participants to organize prominent individuals to endorse the Oasis Plan<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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