May 13, 2025 (EIRNS)—Reports over the recent days have made it unmistakably clear that the “international community” has failed the people of Gaza. Not only have they suffered 19 months of indiscriminate bombing, forced relocation, and a lack of even the most basic human needs; now, after 70 days of Israel’s complete blockade, they are facing a full-blown famine. The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification issued a report May 12 which found that the entirety of Gaza had now reached a Phase 4 “Emergency” level of food crisis, while 22% of the population is already at the highest—Phase 5. Even Josep Borrell, the EU’s notorious former top diplomat, had to come out and say: “Seldom have I heard the leader of a state [Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu] so clearly outline a plan that fits the legal definition of genocide.” He added, “This is the largest ethnic-cleansing operation since the end of the Second World War.”
Alleged efforts on the part of the U.S. and a new humanitarian aid agency, the “Gaza Humanitarian Foundation,” is suspect at minimum and disastrous at most. Former U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair is reported to be playing a major role in its design and functioning—a situation that must be watched with caution.
A string of editorial statements by leading Western news outlets in the recent weeks, warning about the full-blown genocide in Gaza after a year-and-a-half of near-silence, provoked Caitlin Johnstone to write that many are “smelling what’s in the wind…. Something is changing.”
However, there must be a caveat. This moral and political failure was not so much that of the “international community,” but rather that of the “rules-based order,” which precipitated and excused this atrocity to unfold before the world—even though many who are now speaking out won’t want to acknowledge it. This must be stated, because it is this same “rules-based order” which is responsible for the deaths of many hundreds of thousands more in the fields of Ukraine—another unnecessary conflict sustained by the intentionally false narrative of “defending democracy.” While four foolish and unpopular European leaders gathered in Kiev last weekend to preach to Russian President Vladimir Putin, Mr. Putin himself was hosting 29 heads of state in Moscow for an actually serious occasion—the 80th anniversary of the defeat of fascism in Europe. The world now awaits the results of the May 15 peace talks in Istanbul between Ukraine and Russia, despite the efforts of those failed European leaders to disrupt them.
And it is the true nature of this same “rules-based order” which helped spur on the enormously successful May 13 summits in Beijing, which rejected not only the political and military failures of the post-Bretton Woods order, but the economic as well. Following on the heels of the May 9th celebration in Moscow, with many heads of state in attendance, the China-CELAC (Community of Latin American and Caribbean States) convened in China, to define a path of development that had previously been disallowed. Defending China’s method of investing in large-scale infrastructure and industrial development, Brazil’s President Lula emphasized: “We don’t need export vectors, but development routes.”
President Trump’s flashy visit to Saudi Arabia may, in fact, redefine certain processes within Southwest Asia, not the least of which may be putting a check on Israel’s brazen destructiveness. However, his visit is itself a reflection of this larger process, and will never be able to replace it. As Xi Jinping expressed the much higher and more truthful vantage point for the relationship between China and Brazil during his bilateral summit with Lula: “We are going to remain faithful to our initial aspiration to assume responsibility for human progress and global development.”
So, it is now beyond urgent that the genocide in Gaza be halted, that a sovereign State of Palestine be established, and that Gaza be rebuilt. But humanity must ask: How should the Palestinians secure justice? How can this horror be made right? History will certainly look back, and judge those who have allowed it to unfold—including those who willfully looked away. Yet, the sweetest justice comes from the future. The creation of a new security and development architecture, with a view for at least the coming 500 years of a developing and prosperous mankind, provides the only adequate basis to correct a genocide—and for a dignified future for the region.
The upcoming June 2-4 UN summit on Palestine in New York is an initial opportunity to do this. The LaRouche Oasis Plan for Southwest Asia and Helga Zepp-LaRouche’s Ten Principles are the required ingredients to transform this uncertain moment in history into a new era for the world.
