Now It’s Time To End The Genocide

On January 15, 2025, the Israeli and Palestinian negotiators reached an agreement in Qatar for a temporary ceasefire between the Jewish Nation and the Palestinian Hamas Movement. After 15 months of brutality, a sliver of hope has emerged that the senseless killing of innocent Palestinians would stop and a different future for the region could begin. At the same time, the development only represents a window through which one could address the deeper issue, of which the genocide in Gaza has been only a reflection, and there are still many obstacles in the way.

Outgoing US President Joseph Robinette Biden Jr was of course quick to take credit for the accomplishment, claiming that it was a direct result of his May 2024 diplomacy planned in October 2023. However, it is clear that the deal has been secured only with the help of Donald John Trump, a fact which even the US State Department admitted when a spokesperson said that Trump’s team was “absolutely critical” in completing it. History will know that it was actually Joe Biden and Bloody Blinken, along with Benjamin ‘Bibi’ Netanyahu and his extremist allies, who prevented this from happening much sooner.

Biden is, in fact, a perfect example of the worst type of Washington DC’s permanent bureaucracy that emerged in the post-1971 Wall Street-London order, a bureaucracy that is willing to impose endless wars, public austerity and even fascism in order to preserve their system of continued rule. Without anything but ambition, these types merely follow, like lemmings, the orders and recommendations given to them by the experts – the same people whose expertise got the world into countless wars in Southwest Asia and beyond, as well as a threatened global conflict among superpowers today.

Understanding what this system is and how it has affected Western Civilisation is key to ensuring not only that this particular ceasefire becomes a lasting peace far into the future, but also that such a thing never happens in the world again. After all, if one thinks that human beings are essentially (rational) animals and are strictly governed by their own self-interests, then s/he might fall right into the trap set for her/him by British imperial geopoliticians.

One of such geopoliticians has argued: “Common interests of mankind are a utopia!” He added: “We must use enough force that will create confidence and energy on the one side and inspire respect and caution on the other.” This statement was issued last week by British Foreign Secretary David Lammy, who quoted Ernest Bevin, the post-war British Foreign Secretary and key author of the Cold War. The West “must relearn the Cold War manual,” stressed Lammy in an overt attempt to appeal to Trump and assert a leadership role for the UK again.

One should not count on these holdovers from the rules-based order to change their ways anytime soon, and also should not count on Trump either, although his contribution to the ceasefire in Gaza is certainly a welcome move. In her weekly webcast, Helga Zepp-LaRouche, a German political activist, the widow of US political activist Lyndon LaRouche and the founder of the LaRouche Movement’s Schiller Institute, took up this geopolitical issue that has played the dominant role in the atrocities that have unfolded in Palestine and Lebanon, as well as in Ukraine.

Helga Zepp-LaRouche stated: “The idea that the geopolitical outlook, which has the seed of World Wars in it – geopolitics was the reason why we had two World Wars in the 20th Century – I think this is definitely something that needs to be overcome, and it must be superseded by the idea that there is a larger interest that unites us as the One Humanity.” She stressed: “I think this is an existential question because if we cannot overcome it, the likelihood that we will blow ourselves up and destroy everything on this planet – unfortunately we have never been closer to that – but on the other side if enough people realise that this danger exists, maybe we can mobilise the moral fibre to overcome it.”

International Peace Coalition (IPC) published this article on January 16, 2025.

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Koushik Das (born on May 16, 1976 in Kolkata) is a career journalist. Based in the Indian capital of New Delhi, Koushik writes mainly about foreign policies and current geopolitical issues, and rarely about other topics. His own political ideas are highly influenced by Antonio Gramsci, Louis Althusser, Michel Foucault, Michael Oakeshott and others. English philosopher and political theorist Oakeshott (Dec 11, 1901-Dec 19, 1990) says that “in political activity, men sail a boundless and bottomless sea. There is neither harbour for shelter nor floor for anchorage, neither starting-place, nor appointed destination. But we have to keep afloat”. (Rationalism in Politics, 1962) As a student of Political Science, Koushik loves to share his views on issues, which have great impacts on his thought process (and also on India, South Asia and of course on the global community), with his readers through his website – Boundless Ocean of Politics. By doing so, he tries to keep himself afloat. You will find some of his articles in https://inserbia.info/today/ (https://inserbia.info/today/author/kou_das13_i/), as he has been trying to assess the global geopolitics since 2003. You can also mail him at kousdas@gmail.com View all posts by Koushik Das