The eyes of the world are locked on the fragile peace deal struck on October 13, 2025 in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, bringing the more than two-year-long horrific war in Gaza to an end. While there are a million arguments to be made as to why this deal might fall apart – the media are full of them, Helga Zepp-LaRouche, the widow of US political activist Lyndon LaRouche and the founder of the LaRouche Movement‘s Schiller Institute, as well as the German Bürgerrechtsbewegung Solidarität Party, was quite firm in discussions with colleagues on October 15 that this kind of speculation does nothing to effect a lasting peace and also for the cause of humanity.

Zepp-LaRouche made clear in her international webcast the same day that “everything now depends on changing the parameters for good”, stressing: “I think that the most important thing that we can do, and you can do… is to put the Oasis Plan on the agenda in a major way. If there would be an agreement by all the neighbours… that the hundred years of violence and tension has to be overcome by putting in a perspective of development for all – because the new name for peace is development – then I think there can be a change in the situation.”

She further said: “Indeed, I think this region could reconnect to the great tradition it had in the times of the ancient silk road when Southwest Asia was a hub for the connection and trade between Asia, Europe and Africa. That is exactly what the Oasis Plan would be the beginning of… The best and maybe only way you can end this conflict is to lift the entire discussion on a completely new level where you have an economic development plan where everybody participates.“

Zepp-LaRouche believes that only such an approach, that of rising above the level on which the conflict arose to locate the higher “one“, the higher good in the common interest of advancing humanity can work.

This is the same principle that must be invoked to avoid the geopolitical trap laid by the narrow minded and terribly evil warmongers in the West who are preparing Europe to march headlong into a nuclear conflict with Russia and are hoping to pull the US with them. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Viktorovich Lavrov was quite frank in an October 15 interview with Kommersant that it is the European leaders who are driving the war policy and “they make no secret of their desire to ‘lead Donald Trump astray from the righteous path’, as we say – to divert him from the course he himself charted through his political instincts…“

So far, to his credit, President Trump has not followed lock step; however, a big question that hangs in the air, which might be addressed during acting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Zelenskyy’s visit to the White House on October 17, is whether or not the US President would authorise Tomahawk long-range missiles to be sent to Ukraine. Lavrov warned: “When President Trump spoke about the possibility of supplying these missiles, he also said that he did not want to escalate the war. In other words, he has admitted that sending the missiles could lead to a serious escalation. Ukraine would no longer have anything to do with it. This would cause colossal damage to the possibility of normalising US-Russian relations…“

However, the determined Trump may be to avoid a war with Russia, his accidental wisdom seems not to follow him into the Western hemisphere, as major escalations toward war on Venezuela on October 15, including authorisation of the CIA for covert operations inside the country, coupled with the circling of B52 bombers over the Caribbean just outside of Venezuelan airspace, raise the spectre of failed regime change operations of decades past. As Retired US Colonel Douglas Macgregor observed: “Venezuela looks like another disastrous regime change fantasy cooked up by the same people in Washington who brought us bankruptcy in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Syria.“

Humanity is at a crossroads, and neither idle speculation nor cynical (“realistic“) commentary will ensure that we move down the path away from the abyss. Getting the West to drop geopolitics and join the new paradigm may seem like it will take a miracle. However, we know that the first step to pulling off such a miracle is to get the Oasis Plan on the agenda for the upcoming Gaza Reconstruction Conference in Egypt in November.

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

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