South Africa’s Dr. Naledi Pandor To Address the 89th Weekly Meeting of the International Peace Coalition

Feb. 12, 2025 (EIRNS)—Wednesday, Feb. 12 saw three major developments in the tumultuous strategic situation.

First, Presidents Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin held a long-awaited phone conversation lasting 1.5 hours, which both sides described as highly productive in their shared commitment to end the Ukraine-Russia war. The Kremlin readout specified: “The President of Russia expressed support for one of the U.S. President’s key arguments, which was that it was time for both countries to work together.” An in-person meeting is also possible in the near future.

The London and Washington warmongers who have been trying to drive the U.S. and Russia into a thermonuclear confrontation are not happy at this development, and will do what they can to sabotage it.

Second, Tulsi Gabbard was approved by a vote of 52-48 in the Senate as Trump’s Director of National Intelligence. She will be in charge of providing a daily intelligence briefing to the President informing him about what is actually going on in the world (something which he desperately needs, given his deadly blunder on Gaza and other serious policy disorientations), as well as the task of declassifying in full the documents around the assassinations of JFK, RFK and Martin Luther King.

The so-called “Deep State”—more accurately described as the permanent bureaucracy running the U.S. government on behalf of Wall Street and the City of London—tried “six ways from Sunday” to stop the approval of Gabbard … and failed. They are now apoplectic, and extremely nervous about what future awaits them with Gabbard as DNI.

Third, Helga Zepp-LaRouche announced today that the upcoming 89th weekly meeting of the International Peace Coalition (IPC) on Friday, Feb. 14, will have as a featured speaker Dr. Naledi Pandor, the former Foreign Minister of South Africa. Dr. Pandor played a central role in South Africa’s filing a successful suit in 2023 before the International Court of Justice denouncing Israel’s genocide in Gaza, which at long last brought the matter before the conscience of the world.

The sponsors of the policy of ethnic-cleansing and genocide, although emboldened by President Trump’s repeated promotion of a proposal to permanently remove all Palestinians from Gaza in order to turn it into a “Riviera” of tourism and casinos, are very concerned about what will come of Pandor’s participation at the IPC meeting. A central topic of discussion will be the LaRouche Oasis Plan, which is the only viable solution to wars and genocide in Southwest Asia.

That IPC meeting will occur one day before the Saturday Feb. 15 deadline which both President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu have set, demanding that Hamas release all remaining hostages, or “all hell will break loose”—i.e. the war and carnage will resume in full force.

Trump’s insistent call for the final solution to the Palestinian problem by displacing them to neighboring Arab countries—which are emphatically opposed to participating in such ethnic cleansing—will have a devastating effect around the world if it is not reversed, Helga Zepp-LaRouche warned today in her weekly Dialogue webcast. Already, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi has let it be known that he refuses to meet with Trump in Washington, as long as his Palestinian displacement policy is on the table.

“We are in the middle of a strategic change, an epochal change, such as the world has not experienced for a very long time, several centuries. The whole world is in a realignment,” she stated. “The lack of empathy that is reflected in that [Trump proposal] will be noted by the whole world, and if not corrected—and I would hope that it still can be corrected … the West will be blamed by the entire world.”

Zepp-LaRouche emphasized that “the absence of empathy is what startles me the most. Are we human beings or are we not? Are we trying to improve the world and create a better life for the people in our generation, and for future generations to have an even better life? Obviously, all of that has vanished from politics. I’m afraid that we are looking at decay and descent into a barbarism which does not spell well for the future of humanity—if it is not reversed,” she concluded.