Citizens Electoral Council of Australia

Media Release Wednesday, 24 September 2014

Craig Isherwood‚ National Secretary
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Helga Zepp-LaRouche: Bombs alone won’t defeat ISIS

Helga Zepp-LaRouche, founder of the Schiller Institute and chairwoman of the Civil Rights Solidarity Movement (BüSo) in Germany, in a recent radio interview with China Radio International, blasted the knee-jerk military response to ISIS and laid out a plan for economic development for peace.

As Zepp-LaRouche stated in her 4 September interview: “So if you have that kind of approach, that way you give a perspective of future economic prosperity for the young people in this region, because many of them would not be joining the terrorists if they had some economic hope for the future. So the solution has to be peace through development. And the only hopeful thing I can say, that the present policies of Egypt is very, very quickly moving in this direction already: So, between Iran, Egypt, there are already poles of hope in this region.”

This hope is particularly exciting in Egypt. A 22 September 2014 press release posted at Dredging Today highlights the progress on the New Suez Canal Project. Head of the Suez Canal Authority, Vice Admiral Mohab Mamish said that the Armed Forces have completed 25 per cent of the digging work, stressing the fact that finances for the project—sourced entirely from the Egyptian people—were secured in just eight days. He said “all workers at the New Suez Canal Project are working day and night for the sake of the country and to fulfil their pledge to finalise the project in just one year.”

Zepp-LaRouche referenced “the curse of the evil deed, that it must permanently create more evil deeds” pointing out the disastrous Western policies from the lies of Saddam’s WMDs to the actual Western intention which is regime change “against any country which would not be submissive to the idea of globalisation.” ISIS now uses U.S.-made armoured Humvees and weapons. And with access to Saudi Arabian supplied anti-tank rockets, ISIS is well armed. Adding more weapons to the mix will likely fall into the wrong hands and indiscriminate bombing will create further bitterness and cycles of revenge.

As former U.S. Senator Bob Graham charged, the Saudis are “playing both sides”, pretending to help the U.S. to fight against ISIS, while secretly financing the terrorists. “They essentially are the creator of ISIS and its primary source of financial support today”, said Graham in an interview with Fox Television. As co-chair of the 9/11 investigation in Congress, Graham had access to classified material not available to the public. He charges that Saudi Arabia is being protected by the U.S. government which is covering up the dirty terrorism operations. This has emboldened Saudi Arabia to give even more support to the most extremist elements in Islam, such as ISIS.

In November 2012, the Schiller Institute organised a conference in Frankfurt, presenting a comprehensive peace and development plan for the entire region, from the Caucasus Mountains to Afghanistan to the Persian Gulf, to the Mediterranean. The entire region must be taken as one so the Eurasian Land-Bridge transport and infrastructure corridors now under construction can open up the nations of the region to new wealth.

Known in China as the “Silk Road Lady” for her commitment to the Eurasian Land-Bridge, Zepp-LaRouche identifies these massive infrastructure corridors as key for the region: “So we have prepared a development plan, which basically would extend the Silk Road, or as we sometimes call it, the Eurasian Land-Bridge, into this area to develop the desert by three methods: You can use the water from the aquifers, you can redirect some rivers, you make dams, but most importantly, you have to have peaceful nuclear energy for large-scale desalination of ocean water, and then use this desalinated water to green the deserts.”

Hussein Askary, chairman of the Swedish European Labor Party addressed Zepp-LaRouche’s November 2012 Frankfurt conference, outlining a comprehensive plan to green the deserts of Southwest Asia: “There are people there—farmers, and unemployed young people—they can start work immediately, next week. We can start planting trees next week. There’s no problem. What is lacking is the policy. We don’t have a policy. We have a policy of destruction; we don’t have a policy of construction.”

Askary noted former U.S. presidential candidate Lyndon LaRouche’s Oasis Plan to green the deserts, creating constructive jobs and ending the cycle of violence and terrorism. Bringing water to the deserts will create a cooler climate for the entire region. Agriculture will thrive under the right circumstances. For example, the productivity of olive trees planted under the sun will be diminished by about 50 per cent because the heat will kill a lot of the kernel of the olive. But if you plant them in the shade of a plant, their productivity will increase.

Numerous infrastructure projects will be required. For example, a canal from the Red Sea to the Dead Sea, given the difference in elevation of close to 430 metres, could create hydropower for water desalination. And extra water will prevent the Dead Sea from sinking any further as it has done for several decades.

Australia could assist with such a development proposal. Instead of sending RAAF combat aircraft and hundreds of defence force personnel to Iraq as we are now, we could send hundreds of engineers and tradespeople to help repair the damage we have done with the fraud of a war on terror.

Click here for a free copy of the Australian Alert Service’s coverage of Egypt’s impressive New Suez Canal project, which is an example of the kind of development the Middle East desperately needs.
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