Gaza and Ukraine: Only Non-Linear Approaches Can Bring About Peace

“No more killing!” That is what President Trump told acting President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy in yesterday’s two-hour White House meeting. While Zelenskyy probably expected Trump to approve the use of Tomahawk missiles, which are capable of striking deep into Russia and would certainly put the U.S. and NATO in a state of direct conflict in Ukraine, Trump instead referenced the proposal of a Budapest summit between himself and Russian President Vladimir Putin, suggesting separate meetings be held on the sidelines with Putin and Zelenskyy.

This is just one example of the arc of development taking place in the world. We can either stick to the old imperial axioms which have dominated since President Franklin Roosevelt’s death, which will lead to the thermonuclear obliteration of all life on the planet, or, we can shift our axioms, and create the conditions for a new paradigm of coalesce in the world today.

In another area of the world, Southwest Asia, the peace deal between Hamas and Israel, while tenuous by itself, has opened up a new path for diplomacy and economic development which can lead to a reconciliation between both sides. That potential exists with Lyndon LaRouche’s 1975 Oasis Plan, which envisions joint development in water desalination and other infrastructure, to make the deserts bloom, and integrate the region from India to the Mediterranean, from the Caucasus to the Persian Gulf, as one development area. The feasibility of implementing such an ambitious undertaking—though unconventional according to linear political thinking—is real, according to Dr. Manuel Hassassian, the ambassador from the Palestinian Authority to Denmark, in an interview with Helga Zepp-LaRouche. In the dialogue, he said to Helga:

“On several occasions, I boosted the Oasis Plan as a prelude to economic development towards infrastructural development. I think this is a recipe which is ready for international donors and stakeholders to use in the process of the national reconstruction and the infrastructural development of Gaza. I think this is the time to market the Oasis Plan, to be factored in by those who are going to be involved in the reconstruction of Gaza.... The Oasis Plan now is becoming more and more visible to stakeholders to factor in [to] any process of development.”

A new approach to diplomacy, which is non-linear and creative, as proposed by President Vladimir Putin at the recent Valdai Club meeting this month, is needed to implement such proposals. Only a transcendental shift in the thinking of citizens can result in such a revolutionary approach to statecraft.