The 61st consecutive weekly online meeting of the International Peace Coalition (IPC) met today, noting that in the preceding 60 meetings, roughly 1,200 individuals from 30 to 40 different nations had participated. Helga Zepp-LaRouche, founder of the Schiller Institute, at the close of the IPC meeting, urged participants to:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
1) Circulate the call to implement UN Resolution 377<\/a> made by World Beyond War and an accompanying coalition of organizations. The UN Security Council has shown that it can\u2019t function under the present circumstances, and only UN Resolution 377, \u201cUniting For Peace,\u201d can supersede the Security Council and allow the General Assembly to intervene to stop Israel\u2019s genocidal behavior.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2) Join the August 6 demonstrations, which will be held worldwide to commemorate the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 3) Build next week\u2019s Aug. 9 IPC meeting into a very large gathering, to also mark the anniversary of the 1945 nuclear bombing of Nagasaki.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 4) Help us find people from every nation on the planet, who, through their life\u2019s work, have contributed something essential to humanity, because these are the people who can be organized to join Zepp-LaRouche\u2019s proposed Council of Reason<\/a> to pilot the world safely out of the present existential crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Zepp-LaRouche further explained the concept of the Council of Reason. The idea is not to pull together a large grouping of well-meaning people, but rather to find and recruit the handfuls of \u201celder statesmen\u201d in each country, the key leaders who are committed to the development and security of all nations and all peoples, to lead the way in organizing for a new paradigm \u201cworthy of the Dignity of Man.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n The IPC meeting began with her strategic overview, noting the targeted assassinations of Hezbollah commander Fuad Shukr in Lebanon and Hamas chief negotiator Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran occurred because Israeli leaders believe that the U.S. will fully back them up, following Netanyahu\u2019s address to the U.S. Congress. The fact that they assassinated the key negotiator sends a clear signal that they don\u2019t intend to negotiate. If the war stops, Netanyahu will face elections and jail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n What is looming is a potential war with Lebanon. Hezbollah is a more significant military force than Hamas. The death toll in Gaza is not just 39,000 people, but more likely the 186,000 estimated by Lancet<\/em> medical magazine<\/a>, or the 250,000 by strategic analyst John Mearsheimer. Foreign Policy<\/em> magazine just published the option of assassinating Vladimir Putin<\/a>, which Zepp-LaRouche described as an \u201ceerily hair-raising discussion \u2026 the breakdown of any civility in international relations and diplomacy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Dr. Mubarak Awad, founder of Nonviolence International, opened with a personal account of life in occupied Jerusalem during the 1940s: His father was murdered by Zionist forces, and he, his mother and siblings became homeless refugees. So that he might survive, he was taken to an orphanage by his mother. His mother begged him not to carry a gun, not to fall into the \u201cculture of revenge.\u201d He went on to study in the U.S., returned to Palestine, and founded the Palestinian Center for the Study of Nonviolence, for which he \u201cwas named, in Israel, the most dangerous fellow\u201d and deported. Awad endorsed the Council of Reason, insisting that \u201cwe need new thinking\u201d; we need something new because revenge isn\u2019t working.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Graham Fuller, former CIA analyst, and Islamic scholar, focused on the emerging flashpoint of Iran. \u201cOnce again we find the United States completely incapable\u201d of engaging in diplomacy in the Middle East, he said. The U.S. \u201cmust acknowledge the stupidity\u201d of refusing to engage diplomatically with Iran. He characterized U.S. diplomats as \u201camateurs\u201d for viewing the situation as a zero-sum game. The old adage that the enemy of my enemy is my friend \u201cis really quite puerile and childish,\u201d Fuller added. The U.S. refuses to engage with Iran because of \u201cIsrael and its violent objection to anything that would strengthen Iran\u2026. Bibi Netanyahu would like nothing more than to have the United States involved in a war with Israel against Iran.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Prof. Dr. L\u00e1szl\u00f3 Ungv\u00e1ri, President (emeritus) of Wildau University of Technology in Germany, insisted that \u201cpeace that is created through weapons is not real peace.\u201d He reminded participants that the peace agreements that ended World War I became the impetus for World War II. He praised Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orb\u00e1n as \u201cone of the few persons in Europe who can talk with every leading politician in the world.\u201d He posed the question: If the West really wants peace, why are they angry at Orb\u00e1n?<\/p>\n\n\n\n In an excerpt of an interview conducted by EIR<\/em>\u2019s Mike Billington with Richard A. Falk, professor emeritus of international law, Princeton University, and Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor\u2019s Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Falk observed that \u201cit\u2019s extremely difficult to penetrate the mainstream media\u201d and to \u201cchallenge the fundamental way that the world is organized.\u201d He expressed guarded optimism about the proposed Council of Reason, saying that there is a similar council of former Nobel Prize winners, but it hasn\u2019t had much resonance with the media. He advised that Council members must be chosen carefully, and adequate funds raised. \u201cAll such initiatives help,\u201d he concluded; \u201cit\u2019s worth a try.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Helga Zepp-LaRouche said that the IPC must unite the peace movement, including other groups mentioned by Falk: \u201cAs long as they are all fighting separately,\u201d it is an uphill battle. If this gets into the UN General Assembly, we can obviate the mainstream media problem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n