The Coming Week in Washington: Gabbard and Patel; Netanyahu; and the Drive To Expel China from the Americas

Feb. 2, 2025 (EIRNS)—After an explosive week of coverage of the illegal activities of the London-Washington “Deep State” apparatus, exposed during the course of the Senate hearings on the Tulsi Gabbard and Kash Patel nominations, the Senate will move to a vote in the course of this coming week. Both nominees acquitted themselves well; and President Trump has thrown his considerable political weight behind them, both publicly and in private. Yet Americans must step up the pressure on the Senate to make sure they are approved, because that Deep State apparatus has no intention of going quietly.

As veteran former CIA analyst Ray McGovern soberly explained during the Jan. 31 meeting of the International Peace Coalition, the very Intelligence Community apparatus which is being exposed and feels so threatened by Gabbard and Patel, will predictably pull out all the stops—both legally and illegally—to make sure Senators vote the way the IC tells them to vote. McGovern recalled the practices of the FBI’s J. Edgar Hoover to drive the point home. The LaRouche Organization fact sheet “The Liars’ Bureau”, now widely circulating on Capitol Hill, exposes the history of that kind of criminality, which Gabbard is being given a mandate to clean out.

So it is all the more significant that Gabbard began her opening written statement before the Senate panel with an unflinching challenge: “I’m honored and grateful to President Trump for his trust and confidence in nominating me to serve our country as the Director of National Intelligence at a time when trust in the intelligence community is at an all-time low. Chuck Schumer admitted, ‘You take on the Intelligence Community, they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you.’”

As if Washington didn’t have enough warmongers of its own to contend with, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrived in the U.S. capital on Feb. 2, and is scheduled to meet with President Trump on Tuesday, Feb. 4. The ostensible agenda includes discussing the nature of Phase 2 of the ceasefire and hostage exchange agreement between Israel and Hamas. But Netanyahu has a deeper agenda: to get Trump’s backing for his genocidal plan to expel all Palestinians from the West Bank and Gaza, and turn the area into an ethnically-cleansed part of Greater Israel—a long-standing dream of the British Foreign Office and its geopolitical ideology.

Will Trump acquiesce? Do his repeated calls for neighboring Arab nations to accept millions of expelled Palestinians into their countries—an idea once again forcefully rejected on Feb. 1 by a half-dozen Arab leaders—coincide with London’s Netanyahu gambit? Or will President Trump, the self-proclaimed real estate developer and builder, tilt in the direction of considering the LaRouche Oasis Plan, which Schiller Institute founder Helga Zepp-LaRouche has been actively promoting? Such an approach, which would benefit Palestinians and Israelis alike, would best work with the active participation of China in the reconstruction of Gaza and the entire region—as leading Chinese intellectuals have stated is quite feasible.

But there are also major storms clouds on the horizon of U.S.-China relations. In addition to Trump’s thoroughly misguided Feb. 1 imposition of steep tariffs on China (10%), Canada (25%) and Mexico (25%), Secretary of State Marco Rubio has just begun his first foreign trip, whose stated intention is to drive China and its Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) projects clear out of the Americas, and sabotage any existing Chinese cooperation with nations in the region.

Rubio’s first stop was Panama, where he met on Feb. 2 with President José Raúl Mulino. Amid swirling rumors of a possible U.S. invasion of tiny Panama—triggered by President Trump’s threats during his inaugural speech that “China is operating the Panama Canal and we didn’t give it to China. We gave it to Panama and we’re taking it back”—Rubio easily got what he was there for. Mulino conceded to canceling Panama’s membership in the BRI as soon as the MOU comes up for renewal, and he had already agreed even before Rubio’s arrival to open an “investigation” into the Hong Kong companies which run the ports at either end of the Canal—i.e., to expel them as quickly as possible.

Does this mean that Peru is next on the hit list, in light of last year’s inauguration of the world-class deep-water port that China and Peru built in Chancay?

President Trump were wise to recall his own earlier characterizations of Rubio. In an interview with “Fox News Sunday” back on Feb. 28, 2016, Trump tore into the man who is now his Secretary of State: “I call him ‘Little Marco’…. He’s a very nasty guy… a con man.” And even more importantly, Trump and his advisers need to study the Schiller Institute pamphlet “Development Drive Means Billions of New Jobs, No Refugees, No War”, which demonstrates how U.S.-China cooperation against the very international financial interests that run the “Deep State” can stop the war drive and end the refugee and drug crises—two of Trump’s most important stated policy commitments.

All other policy options, some of which President Trump has already embarked upon, will backfire. So make the most of this week’s potential.