{"id":102275,"date":"2024-05-04T08:59:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-04T12:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/?p=102275"},"modified":"2024-05-04T09:00:23","modified_gmt":"2024-05-04T13:00:23","slug":"international-peace-coalition-anything-from-this-geopolitical-kitchen-of-poison-must-be-overcome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/ru\/blog\/2024\/05\/04\/international-peace-coalition-anything-from-this-geopolitical-kitchen-of-poison-must-be-overcome\/","title":{"rendered":"International Peace Coalition: Anything from This Geopolitical \u2018Kitchen of Poison Must Be Overcome\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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

May 3, 2024 (EIRNS)\u2014Amid the tumult and policy crisis created by the unexpected explosion of opposition to the Biden Administration\u2019s financial and political support of the outlaw Netanyahu regime of Israel, the International Peace Coalition (IPC) held its 48th consecutive meeting today. Schiller Institute founder Helga Zepp-LaRouche<\/strong>, the original initiator of the IPC, opened this session with her oft-repeated demand that \u201cWe have to replace geopolitics with the idea of cooperation instead of confrontation.\u201d Zepp-LaRouche emphasized the importance of the internationalization of the student movement against the genocide in Gaza. She pointed out that, while there are now 90 to 100 solidarity actions in universities around the United States, there are now also corresponding actions in France, Germany, Italy, Canada, and many other nations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the other hand, Zepp-LaRouche warned of the \u201cnew definition of anti-Semitism\u201d being pushed in the form of legislation by frantic genocide apologists in the U.S. Congress. (Such laws, if passed, are against the United States Constitution, whose First Amendment stipulates that government must in no way interfere with the content of speech.) She singled out the brutal police deployments against the demonstrators, saying that with that sort of repression \u201cthe word \u2018democracy\u2019 has become completely hollow.\u201d She was especially touched by the message of the children of Gaza, expressing their gratitude to the American students for attempting to save their lives in the name of humanity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Zepp-LaRouche, on the subject of the war in Ukraine, reported that German General Harald Kujat (ret.) recently stated that Ukraine\u2019s aspiration to restore the 1991 borders is not realistic. In addition, the goal of the United States was to weaken Russia, so negotiations have been sabotaged. There is therefore no exit, and no winning strategy. Ukrainian men are now unable to obtain passports, because every last one of them is a candidate for conscription into the military. Worse, of the $61 billion in military aid voted up by the U.S. Congress, only about $10 billion is for new weapons; the rest has paid for weapons already produced and delivered!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Zepp-LaRouche also warned against the \u201cloud and wrong\u201d proposals that the U.S. seize Russian assets in Western banks, saying that in reaction to such a confiscation the Global South will come to the conclusion that their assets are no longer safe with the dollar system. The likelihood is that their response to such confiscations will be a decisive move to replace the U.S. SWIFT system, with an alternative global financial framework, as the Global South realizes that the Wall Street\/City of London financial \u201caxis of evil\u201d empire is finished.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

News From the Freedom Flotilla<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The meeting received reports from organizers of the Freedom Flotilla<\/strong>, which is attempting to leave T\u00fcrkiye with 5,500 tons of food and medicine, and six ambulances, bound for Gaza.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In an interview updating the status of the Flotilla, pre-recorded for the meeting, Dr.\u00a0Mubarak Awad<\/strong>, founder of Nonviolence International, said Israel prevailed upon the Guinea Bissau International Ships Registry to withdraw its flags from the two lead vessels. The Turkish government offered their flag, but wanted a unit of Turkish soldiers onboard. This option was rejected by the leaders of the Flotilla as it could be construed as a warlike gesture. Dr.\u00a0Awad stressed that nonviolence was a cornerstone of the Flotilla\u2019s policy. \u201cWe are willing to be shot at by the Israelis,\u201d he said. \u201cWe have people coming from 40 countries. I would hope that we could even have a ship of Israelis.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He was followed by Coleen Rowley<\/strong>, a former FBI special agent, whistleblower, and member of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS), who just returned from T\u00fcrkiye. She was very impressed by the involvement of IHH Humanitarian Relief Foundation<\/a>. She mentioned a recent article on the Flotilla<\/a> in an April 21 issue of the Washington Post<\/em>, which included quotes from VIPS member and Flotilla leader Col. Ann Wright, despite the cited Israeli characterization of the IHH as terrorist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rowley was asked: \u201cIs Israel a terrorist state?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She warned against oversimplification; there are many Israelis who oppose the Likud\u2019s policy. She quoted the late actor Peter Ustinov, \u201cTerrorism is the war of the poor; war is the terrorism of the rich.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Inception of the Zionist Ideology<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prof.\u00a0Cliff Kiracofe<\/strong>, president of the Washington Institute for Peace and Development and former senior professional staff member of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, presented a pr\u00e9cis of his book Dark Crusade: Christian Zionism and U.S. Foreign Policy<\/em>. He began with Great Britain\u2019s Lord Palmerston, who dominated British foreign policy during 1830-1865, when Britain stood at the height of its imperial power. Palmerston said that to compete with Russia and France in the Middle East, the British Empire should sponsor a Jewish return to Palestine. The ideology of Christian Zionism was concocted in the 1830s and \u201940s to support Palmerston\u2019s plan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of its proponents was the Rev. John Nelson Darby, who traveled to the U.S. to promote the doctrine. Consequently, from 1858 to the present, Christian Zionism has permeated many Protestant churches in the United States. A central feature is the Armageddonist\/End Times dogma that we must gather Jews in the Holy Land to trigger the Apocalypse when we confront Russia, China, and Persia, our principal opponents. Southern Baptists and Pentecostals have all embraced this heresy, which Kiracofe called \u201ca bizarre and dangerous ideology.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He described how the influence of this doctrine explains why the Congress passed the new definition of anti-Semitism. Influential Protestant clerics like Rev. John Hagee have been calling for war against Iran since the beginning of this century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In response to Kiracofe\u2019s presentation, Zepp-LaRouche replied, \u201cAnything that comes from this kitchen of poison must be overcome.\u201d She characterized the collaboration between Israelis and Christian Zionists as an \u201cunholy alliance.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jacques Cheminade<\/strong>, the head of France\u2019s Solidarit\u00e9 et Progr\u00e8s party, added a quote from the Israeli philosopher Yeshayahu Leibowitz: \u201cThe idea that a country or any other specific place has an intrinsic sanctity is indubitably an idolatrous idea.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Discussion<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Moderator Anastasia Battle invited students to participate in the discussion period, promising to protect them from \u201cdoxing,\u201d which is the practice by opponents of free speech such as Bill Ackman<\/a>, to publish personal information on political \u201cundesirables\u201d as a means to harm their professional careers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Veterans for Peace activist Jack Gilroy<\/strong> reported on antiwar activism around the U.S., noting he had declined to pay a $250 fine after being arrested at an action against military contractor BAE. He intends instead to put BAE on trial.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Independent Congressional candidate Jose Vega<\/strong> reported from the streets of his constituency in the Bronx, where he is gathering petition signatures to get on the ballot. New York City is \u201con the precipice of change,\u201d he said, and suggested that students from Gaza should be invited to come to the U.S. to study, as were Ukrainian students, since all the universities in Gaza have been destroyed. Rutgers University recently announced that they will admit some. Vega\u2019s opponent, AIPAC darling Rep.\u00a0Ritchie Torres, announced on Friday, May 3, that he plans to introduce the blatantly unconstitutional COLUMBIA Act, (College Oversight and Legal Updates Mandating Bias Investigations and Accountability Act), to impose \u201cthird-party anti-Semitism monitors\u201d on institutions of higher education.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Helga Zepp-LaRouche concluded by reminding the participants that the Oasis Plan<\/a> gives everyone in the region a \u201cbeautiful vision for a joint future,\u201d and that it is the only way to break the cycle of violence and revenge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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