The featured guest at the Feb. 14 meeting No. 89 of the International Peace Coalition (IPC) will be Dr. Naledi Pandor, former Minister of International Relations and Cooperation of South Africa. The event is headlined “Ending the Cycle of Violence in Southwest Asia Requires Creating a Future for All Its Inhabitants.”
The events of the past 16 months in Gaza have presented unimaginable levels of horror and bloodshed. Not for 80 years has the world witnessed the kind of cold-blooded destruction of life that the Netanyahu government of Israel has unleashed there—properly called a “genocide” by South Africa’s historic case at the International Court of Justice—with the full political backing and provision of arms from the United States. This has been made all the more painful by the absurd notion from some in the U.S. and Israel that the only way to secure a lasting peace there is for Gazans to be permanently expelled from their land—a notion that has received almost universal condemnation from around the world.
Now is the time to organize for new, profound solutions to this crisis. As U.S. National Security Advisor Mike Waltz said of Trump’s Gaza relocation proposal, “nobody has a realistic solution” other than Trump, adding that others should “come up with their own solutions if they don’t like Mr. Trump’s.” The International Peace Coalition is taking up Mr. Waltz’s proposal.
This Friday, Feb. 14, the International Peace Coalition is holding a special event on the emergency in Gaza and Southwest Asia as a whole. There is a solution to end the cycle of violence and create a future for all people in the region—the LaRouche Oasis Plan—which proposes to transform the region through actual economic development for all. This, along with a needed two-state solution, can create the conditions for long-term peace in this region. A solution of this type in Southwest Asia would be exemplary of the kind of new security and development architecture which Helga Zepp-LaRouche has repeatedly advocated for on a global scale, as enunciated in her Ten Principles.
As Her Excellency Dr. Naledi Pandor had said while speaking at a Schiller Institute conference in December 2024:
“It is incumbent on all of us to adopt the ideas set out in the Schiller Institute development framework to really ensure that all the aspects of human endeavor which advance human progress are embraced by governments in the South as well as governments in the North. We should encourage a new human relation across the world; one that is devoted to empowering all human beings and ensuring that we develop a more prosperous, a more engaged, a more skilled humanity able to address the fundamental problems that confront all of us. Because alongside the problems, we have a human capacity—an ingenuity—of problem resolution; and we need to unite in drawing that capacity together.”
Featured speakers this Friday will include:
Naledi Pandor, former Minister of International Relations and Cooperation, South Africa
Helga Zepp-LaRouche, founder, Schiller Institute
A representative of the Eisenhower Media Network, U.S.A.
Join us this Friday at 11 a.m. (EST), 5 p.m. (CST)
RSVP at: https://schillerinstitute.nationbuilder.com/ipc_meeting
