Feb. 5, 2025 (EIRNS)—First: Don’t try to brush aside the Trump-Netanyahu press conference of Feb. 4 as just another case of the President throwing out preposterous proposals as a “negotiating tactic,” in which he didn’t really mean what he said: That the United States would take over and “own” Gaza; that the U.S. would use military force “if necessary” to achieve that; and that 1.8 million Palestinians would be “relocated” to neighboring countries (who all quickly restated that they would not be party to such ethnic cleansing).
Unlike others, “I was not completely surprised” by Trump’s statements, Helga Zepp-LaRouche stated during her Feb. 5 webcast dialogue with veteran intelligence analyst Larry Johnson. “We had already known about this plan, which was issued for the first time by Prime Minister Netanyahu’s office last May.” Furthermore, EIR’s Daily Alert of Feb. 2 reported that Netanyahu’s “ostensible agenda [with Trump] 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.”
There are 61,000 dead Palestinians, at last official count, to attest to the fact that the application of that policy is already underway in Gaza.
Second: The only way to achieve peace in the region is to simultaneously move on the political and economic fronts. A two-state solution, in which Palestine’s sovereignty is recognized and at last implemented, is essential. At the same time, the massive reconstruction of the area must begin as part of an overall development plan for the region—the LaRouche Oasis Plan—in which China and the nations of Europe and the United States jointly cooperate to build nuclear plants to desalinate vast quantities of fresh water to green the desert, and construct canals and other major infrastructure—including housing and hospitals.
The Oasis Plan is the proper answer to National Security Adviser Mike Waltz’s effort to backpedal in the face of the storm of national and international opposition, falsely stating on Feb. 5 that “nobody has a realistic solution” other than the Trump plan. “I don’t think [Trump] should be criticized in any way,” Waltz argued. “It’s going to bring the entire region to come up with their own solutions if they don’t like Mr. Trump’s solution.”
Waltz and his boss should be informed that Americans do not like Trump’s proposal, and that he would be smart to study and implement the LaRouche Oasis Plan instead.
Third: There is an underlying axiomatic problem in the West (including the United States), that has to be addressed head-on, or the genocide will not be stopped. And that is the deeply-rooted belief that the fundamental interests of the United States are at odds with those of other countries, that there is not a common interest that all Mankind shares. That view is as false as it is dangerous.
“Every time a country thinks that they are the only relevant one, the superior one, I think it goes in an awfully wrong direction,” Zepp-LaRouche asserted. “Speaking as a German, I’m always wary. It doesn’t matter which country it is: if they think they are better than others, it has the seed of a potential catastrophe. I think the only way the world will eventually get to peaceful development is if the rightful demand of every single country on the planet to have their security interests is protected, and their right to development is protected.”
This approach is as true regarding a solution to the Southwest Asia cockpit of war, as it is to how to get the world back from the brink of nuclear war—which lies in the domain of joint cooperation among the nuclear powers on the kind of technologies that will render nuclear weapons obsolete, as Lyndon LaRouche proposed in his SDI.
“The potential to inject new ideas is absolutely there,” Zepp-LaRouche emphasized, “because a lot of policies will crash against the wall because they are not realizable, and then there is an option for something new. We from the Schiller Institute keep pushing the Oasis Plan, which is right now being considered by very important forces from the Middle East, who basically see the joint economic development of the entire region … as the only way to go.”
Zepp-LaRouche concluded: “I personally think that the big challenge of our time is to convince the people in Europe and the U.S. that these countries [of the Global Majority] are not their enemies; that the geopolitical approach to try to contain them is not working, is not morally wise, and not feasible. So why not change, and really think about a New Paradigm where all the countries on the planet can live together in a mutually beneficial way? Each of us has strengths and others have advantages. If we put all of them together, you could really build a society which is truly human.”
“We are still in the early phase of the Trump administration,” Zepp-LaRouche stressed. “If we mobilize quickly, maybe we can kick something loose.”
