{"id":99795,"date":"2023-11-20T23:56:42","date_gmt":"2023-11-21T04:56:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/?p=99795"},"modified":"2023-11-28T20:27:41","modified_gmt":"2023-11-29T01:27:41","slug":"emergency-forum-no-more-war-crimes-economic-development-not-depopulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/el\/blog\/2023\/11\/20\/emergency-forum-no-more-war-crimes-economic-development-not-depopulation\/","title":{"rendered":"Emergency Forum: No More War Crimes! Economic Development, Not Depopulation!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Emergency Forum: No More War Crimes! Economic Development, Not Depopulation!\" width=\"860\" height=\"484\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7WUxbeyR4U0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Speakers<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Helga Zepp-LaRouche,&nbsp;<em>Founder and Chairwoman, Schiller institute<\/em><\/li><li>Ray McGovern,&nbsp;<em>co-founder, Veteran Intelligence&nbsp;Professionals for Sanity<\/em><\/li><li><em>Questions and Answers<\/em><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A Nov. 5 article titled &#8220;Israel Minister Suspended after Calling Nuking Gaza an Option&#8221; <em>Politico<\/em> reported that &#8220;Israel\u2019s Heritage Minister Amichai Eliyahu was suspended indefinitely after he said in an interview that dropping a nuclear bomb on the Gaza Strip was \u2018one of the possibilities,\u2019 the government announced on Sunday.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It would be supremely irresponsible to {not} take this threat seriously. Already, between 25,000 and 30,000 tons of bombs have been detonated by the Israel Defense Forces in Gaza since October 7. This far exceeds the bomb tonnage dropped in the most lethal air raids of the Second World War, including Hamburg (4 raids, 9,000 tons) Dresden(4 raids, 3900 tons) and Tokyo (1,665 tons.) War crimes are afoot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">T\u00fcrkiye\u2019s <em>Anadolou Agency<\/em> reported October 12 that \u201cThe Israeli Air Force (IAF) said \u2026that it has dropped \u2018about 6,000 bombs against Hamas targets\u2019 in Gaza since Saturday\u2019s attack, which nearly matches the number of bombs the US used in Afghanistan in one year. <em>The Washington Post<\/em>, citing Marc Garlasco, a military adviser at the Dutch organization PAX for Peace, reported that Israel is \u2018dropping in less than a week what the US was dropping in Afghanistan in a year, in a much smaller, much more densely populated area, where mistakes are going to be magnified.\u2019\u201d War crimes are afoot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Has the 1930s era of publicly advocated and justified war crimes returned? Has the decision been made, contrary to ratified UN resolutions, to the 1993 Oslo Accords, to the Geneva Conventions and the Nuremberg code\u2014as well as to the \u201cmutually assured destruction\u201d of thermonuclear weapons\u2014to reintroduce mass murder in warfare as a &#8220;legitimate&#8221; practice?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAccording to the Gazan Ministry of Health, as of Nov 7, 2023, 10,328 people in the Gaza Strip have been killed, including 4237 children, 2719 women, and 631 older people. In addition, 25,956 people have been injured and 2450 are missing, including 1350 children, mostly covered by some of the 262,000 damaged housing units. So far, 192 medical staff have been killed,\u201dreported the Nov.17 edition of the British medical journal, <em>The Lancet<\/em>. These deaths\u2014real people with real aspirations, not \u201ccollateral damage\u201d\u2014cannot be either necessary, right, or justified.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Consider a recent interview given to the <em>BBC<\/em> by senior British MP and Secretary of State for Defence Grant Shapps, when asked if he believes Israel is acting disproportionately in its military actions against Gaza: &#8220;I think it&#8217;s kind of forgotten that in war, very sadly, people lose their lives. When Britain bombed Dresden, 35,000 people apparently lost their lives. People die in war.&#8221; Then, recall the infamous statement reported by correspondent Peter Arnett on February 7, 1968, regarding the American bombing of the Vietnamese village of Ben Tre: \u201c\u2018It became necessary to destroy the town to save it,\u2019 a U.S. major said Wednesday\u2026.. regardless of civilian casualties, they must bomb and shell the once placid river city of 35,000 to rout the Viet Cong forces.\u201d Same war crimes, different country, different decade, different people, different \u201cunassailable righteous cause.\u201d Are we all going to stand for this all over again?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When, in 1962, U.S. President John F. Kennedy was pressured by hardliners within his own administration to launch a military invasion of Cuba \u201c in defense of America,\u201d after the Soviet Union had placed ballistic missiles there\u2014missiles which, unknown to Americans at the time, were armed with nuclear warheads\u2014he refused, and saved the world from nuclear war, perhaps at the cost of his own life. Like Israel\u2019s prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, assassinated November 4,1995 by Israeli extremists that opposed Rabin\u2019s \u201cOslo Accords\u201dcollaboration with Yassr Arafat for peace in Gaza and the West Bank, JFK had the courage to change America\u2019s axioms. In his June 10, 1963 American University speech, he proposed this:\u201dLet us examine our attitude toward peace itself. Too many of us think it is impossible. Too many think it unreal. But that is a dangerous, defeatist belief. It leads to the conclusion that war is inevitable \u2013 that mankind is doomed \u2013 that we are gripped by forces we cannot control. We need not except that view. Our problems are man-made \u2013 therefore, they can be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On November 26, at 11 a.m. EST, International Peace Coalition members Helga Zepp-LaRouche, founder of the Schiller Institute, and Ray McGovern, former CIA analyst and founder of the Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity, will present an alternative to madness, and call on the world to make a shift towards sanity, on the brink of annihilation. Following their presentations and discussion, the film, \u201c<em>8:15 Hiroshima: From Father to Daughter,<\/em>\u201d directed by J.R. Heffelfinger and written and produced by Dr. Akiko Mikamo, will be shown. It is a first-hand account of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima City by U.S. forces. Dr. Mikamo will be available for discussion at the film\u2019s conclusion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link\" href=\"https:\/\/us02web.zoom.us\/webinar\/register\/WN_-cewMKlSTxShksD801jo_Q#\/registration\">Register to participate<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speakers Helga Zepp-LaRouche,&nbsp;Founder and Chairwoman, Schiller institute Ray McGovern,&nbsp;co-founder, Veteran Intelligence&nbsp;Professionals for Sanity Questions and Answers A Nov. 5 article titled &#8220;Israel Minister Suspended after Calling Nuking Gaza an Option&#8221; Politico reported that &#8220;Israel\u2019s Heritage Minister Amichai Eliyahu was suspended indefinitely after he said in an interview that dropping a nuclear bomb on the Gaza [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":99796,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[842],"class_list":["post-99795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-allgemein","tag-lang-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99795"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99940,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99795\/revisions\/99940"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}