Build A Polyphonic, Not Polycentric, Architecture for Peace
Yesterday’s International Peace Coalition meeting, addressed by Schiller Institute chairwoman Helga Zepp-LaRouche, focused in large part on the Feb. 4 meeting between President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minisiter Bibi Netanyahu, particularly Trump’s remarks that the U.S. would lead a massive deportation (i.e. ethnic cleansing) operation in the Gaza Strip clearing millions of Palestinians while relocating them to Jordan, Egypt, Indonesia, and other nations. Of course, Netanyahu smiled gleefully at Trump’s proposal. ” Helga Zepp-LaRouche, speaking at the meeting of the International Peace Coalition pointed out that “U.S. National Security Advisor Mike Waltz said that since this is the only proposal and Trump’s proposal is the best proposal; he said: ‘The fact is that nobody has a realistic solution, and he [Trump] put some very bold fresh new ideas out on the table, I don’t think should be criticized in any way. It’s going to bring the entire region to come up with their own solutions if they don’t like Mr. Trump’s solutions. But one of the key points President Trump made last night was “tell me what real better alternatives they have ever been offered.”’”
These “bold, fresh new ideas” are nothing but the recycling of British geopolitical thinking which has prevented Southwest Asia from becoming a prosperous region of the world and taking its dutiful place as the main hub of transport, commerce, and trade between the continents of Europe, Africa, and Asia. Instead of taking a page from Halford Mackinder, Zbiginiew Brzezinski, and Sir Henry Kissinger, Trump’s team would do better to listen to the wise policy-formulations of Lyndon LaRouche for Southwest Asia, particularly his “Oasis Plan” to provide fresh water, nuclear power, and agriculture to Israel, Palestine, along with its neighbors. The militarist “Iron Wall” policy proposed by the British Zionist tool Vladimir Jabotinsky of crushing the Palestinians has not worked, and has only destroyed Israel’s reputation worldwide. A shift from geopolitical thinking to mutually beneficial, win-win policies is needed now from the United States and the West, which in turn must involve cooperation with Russia, China, and the BRICS+ nations to transform what has been an utter tragedy for the Palestinian people and the region.
This problem of changing axioms was clearly stated by Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in his recent article published in “Russia in Global Affairs” titled, “The UN Charter Should Become the Legal Foundation of a Multipolar World.” Lavrov says, “Multipolarity is gaining momentum and, instead of opposing it, the U.S. could in the foreseeable future become a responsible center of power along with Russia, China, and other states in the Global South, East, North, and West. For the moment, it seems that the new U.S. administration will be launching cowboy raids to test the existing UN-centric system’s limits and durability versus American interests. But I am sure that this administration, too, will soon understand that international reality is much more complex than the caricatures that it is free to deploy before internal American audiences or obedient geopolitical allies.”
That system which Lavrov describes is emerging in the Global South and the East has been described by Russian President Vladimir Putin as a “polyphonic” system:
“It is my deep conviction that the only new international system possible is one embracing polyphony, where many tones and many musical themes are sounded together to form harmony.”
Let us work to make that polyphonic world order a reality. Our Manhattan Town Hall will feature Harley Schlanger, TLO Spokesman, and UK Column editor Mike Robinson.
