Jan. 18, 2025 (EIRNS)—How do you win the peace—not merely stop the fighting, but create an unstoppable peace? Without a new and positive dynamic which repairs the crimes that have been committed, the conflict will surely resume—as was seen when World War I “unpaused” to become World War II, and when the peace potential of the Oslo Accords was effectively killed with the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin.
Early in the morning of Jan. 18, the Israeli government voted to approve the ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas, which is to begin at 6:30 GMT on Sunday, Jan. 19. Three phases are outlined, which include the release of Israeli hostages and Palestinian prisoners, the supplying of humanitarian aid to Gaza, and the withdrawal of IDF forces from Gaza. But, will it last? What will prevent the ceasefire from being sabotaged?
“I think for the region of the Middle East, the Oasis Plan is right now the one thing which would change the dynamic,” Helga Zepp-LaRouche told a meeting of the International Peace Coalition on Jan. 17. “According to my view and many other people, this does require the immediate recognition of a Palestinian state, and obviously that state cannot function if there is not an immediate, not just reconstruction of Gaza, which is completely flattened to the ground, but … a real peace order in the entire region, which we have provided with the Oasis Plan. If we could somehow encourage the Trump administration to really go into a real peace-building by getting the countries of the Middle East together to implement the Oasis Plan, then this has a real potential to solve the situation.”
However, the slime mold of the imperial world order, which created the anti-human doctrine of geopolitics, cannot abide the prospect of loss of hegemony over the world system. This can be seen in the frantic scrambling to ensure that Ukraine has enough Western support to keep fighting Russia to the last Ukrainian; in the outbursts of imperial mouthpieces like London’s Chatham House, which bemoans China’s “nonfinancial investments across the developing world”; and the threats of the permanent bureaucracy in the U.S., who warn Trump against throwing the warmongering liars out of the U.S. intelligence agencies.
On the other hand, the majority of humanity is forming itself into a new and growing world order of win-win cooperation for development in rejection of colonialism. Nigeria just became the newest BRICS partner nation, joining eight other partners and ten member nations, together comprising around 52% of the world’s population. According to the statement of BRICS chair Brazil’s Foreign Ministry, “With the world’s sixth-largest population—and Africa’s largest—as well as being one of the continent’s major economies, Nigeria shares convergent interests with other members of BRICS. It plays an active role in strengthening South-South cooperation and in reforming global governance.”
Were the United States to cooperate with China, with nations of the Global South, to overcome the effects of 500 years of colonialism, this generation could build a just and lasting peace. Geopolitics, the greatest threat to the security and lives of all nations of their people, can be overcome as if a childhood disease of human culture.
Helga Zepp-LaRouche has pointed to the urgent need for a cultural renaissance as part of securing the peace: “We have to revive the best Classical periods in Europe, the spirit of the American Revolution and the anti-colonial fight against the British Empire. We have to really put the world community on the tradition of the best that mankind ever has produced in each nation, in each civilization; and then have a dialogue of civilizations among them. That, together with an economic reconstruction, is the basis for peace.”
The Oasis Plan can be the beginning, the opening spark, of such a new renaissance.
