IPC Meeting #123—Report
Oct. 10, 2025 (EIRNS)—The 123rd consecutive weekly meeting of the International Peace Coalition (IPC) took place on Oct. 10. It was opened by the initiator of the IPC, Helga Zepp-LaRouche, who noted that the development of a partial acceptance of a peace plan for Gaza could be the end of the war, or, as Bibi Netanyahu has said, only a ceasefire, or even less than that if there is not an outpouring of pressure from throughout the world to force it through. The theme of today’s meeting, she said, is the Oasis Plan, which we must put on the agenda for all the discussions going on over these coming days.
Meanwhile, the Ukraine situation has gotten even worse, as the “Coalition of the Willing” European leaders are preparing for war and encouraging the deployment of Tomahawk missiles into Ukraine, which is seen by Russia as a declaration that the U.S. and Europe are directly joining the war. She noted that there are reports of opposition within Russia against Putin as being too soft on the war in Ukraine, but, Mrs. Zepp-LaRouche added, those in the West who encourage regime change against Putin are “stupid” and “foolish,” as any change would be far worse.
Zepp-LaRouche reported that Ted Postol, the expert on nuclear weapons who has spoken at earlier IPC meetings, gave a two-hour speech at the Schiller conference in Berlin, demonstrating that “nuclear war can not be won.” Zepp-LaRouche asserted that we will help circulate his speech. She noted the insanity and danger of the coup against the leader of Peru, orchestrated by the U.K. and the U.S., aimed at stopping China’s role in South America.
The next speaker was Graham Fuller, former CIA planning expert and an Arab scholar. Fuller fully supported Zepp-LaRouche’s presentation, noting that we are experiencing the end of a 500 year-era of colonialism, including “settler colonialism” in Palestine. Since World War II, he said, the Europeans have followed the Atlanticist policy, run by the U.S., despite the fact that the Soviet Union “almost single-handedly removed the Nazis from Europe.” Churchill, he added, immediately called on the U.S. to drop nuclear bombs on Soviet Russia, but Truman wouldn’t do it. (A caller later protested this, pointing to Truman dropping bombs on Japan and mass-producing nuclear weapons, to which Fuller agreed, but said his point was to identify the British role in wanting to destroy Russia.)
Israel, Fuller said, was also a British creation, putting a new state into the middle of Palestine with “white, European Jews,” for the purpose of using Israel to maintain the colonialist policies of the Europeans. The adopted plan for Gaza is not a peace plan, but at best a ceasefire (as Netanyahu says), although it will be good, if it at least stops the killing and brings in some food and medicine for the Gazans. Netayahu’s refusal to release Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti is likely because Barghouti would almost certainly become the new President of Palestine.
On the Oasis Plan, Fuller noted that this is not just for Gaza, but that Central Asia, Iran, and the Persian Gulf states all need water, and this is also the vision of China and the Belt and Road, a development program for the entire region. The obstacle is the British, who are “malevolent and evil,” blocking peace everywhere they can. Europe, he said, “has no leadership,” and appears to be committed to following the “dying Atlanticist vision.” There need to be elections and new governments, who believe in diplomacy and win-win policies. The Belt and Road Initiative and the Oasis Plan can provide the needed vision.
Dr. Vincenzo Romanello, a nuclear scientist from Italy, spoke next, basing his presentation on a paper he had published, titled, “The Role of Advanced Nuclear Technology in the Oasis Plan.” He proposed the construction of 25 nuclear plants to achieve the needed plan, 19 for desalination and 6 for pumping the water through the needed tunnels and canals. With 5,000 km of pipes and a workforce of 100,000, he estimated the total cost as being between $200-300 billion. He said that would be a fraction of the money wasted on military operations today. Romanello concluded that the Oasis Plan “is an invitation to the world, a model for the world.”
Mrs. Zepp-LaRouche added to that estimate, by pointing out that the project would pay for itself, in that the productivity introduced would more than cover the initial cost, as has been demonstrated by the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam on Ethiopia’s Blue Nile, which cost $5 billion, but has a profit of $1 billion every year. “People need hope,” she said. She noted that Postol had been asked why there was no peace movement on the streets today, as there had been in the 1980s, to which Postol responded that the hoax about “climate change,” that the world was doomed anyway, had undermined the population’s optimism with pessimism, to the point that people don’t even protest the threat of annihilation by nuclear war.
Fuller agreed, noting that there was a sense of “hopelessness” in the Middle East, which must be overcome with the Oasis Plan. Romanello also agreed, saying this was precisely the purpose of the Oasis Plan, and that with this sense of development, people would not want to migrate or become terrorists, but would want to be part of rebuilding their home country.
Moderator Dennis Small added that the policy of the U.S. and Europe to stop China’s growth policies in the developing countries was sabotaging the claim that they want to stop the flood of migrants. Fuller agreed, adding that there is havoc everywhere over the flood of migrants, but that “no wall or political policies” will stop it—only by going to the cause—the lack of development—will that be reversed.
Fabiolla Ramirez from the Schiller Institute in Mexico reported on a 3,000-strong march and rally in Mexico City with huge banners on the Oasis Plan and other issues. They marched to the U.S. Embassy, singing a song about the “Children of Gaza” and “Donna Nobis Pacem” (“Give Us Peace”).
Mrs. Zepp-LaRouche answered a question about the nuclear development of Africa, noting that Russia, China and India are helping develop nuclear energy in Africa, but that African contacts had told her that requests to the United States and Europe to help had produced no responses.
A question about nuclear waste and another about solar power as an alternative were answered that there already was totally safe storage of nuclear waste, and that most of it is reprocessed into nuclear fuel, while eventually we will have fusion energy, without waste and with abundant fuel. Solar power can be useful, but cannot replace the advanced energy flux-density of nuclear power.
Brian Earley, a member of the U.S. Schiller Institute, described his intervention at a hearing in the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee, also shown in a video, in which he was wearing his military uniform, and stood up and protested the U.S. responsibility for the genocide in Gaza, demanding that the government stop the lying.
Graham Fuller was asked about the role of Iran. He responded that Iran was the oldest civilization in the Middle East, over 5,000 years. He said the question is: “Is war inevitable? Or is there a choice?” Do we demonize Iran or do we create a new paradigm? He remarked that Iran has been cautious. They see from other examples that if they had a nuclear weapon, they would not be attacked, but they have nonetheless been cautious and have not developed nuclear weapons. Asked about the chance for a Palestinian State, Fuller said many people thought it was too late, due to the Jewish settlers taking over large tracts of Palestinian land. But nothing is impossible, he added. If Israel realizes it is destroying itself, it could change; if the Europeans would stop being so “gutless,” they could change; and if the Arab state would stop being so “disgracefully quiet” about the situation, they could change.
Dennis Small closed the meeting with words on the nature of mankind, the only species which evolves not through biology, but through its creative power to discover the laws of the Universe and apply them to the development of the species as a whole. This is our task.
