May 5—As this report is being filed, America’s most able diplomat, CIA Director William Burns, is in Doha trying to rescue a ceasefire/hostage deal, and in so doing save the last standing Gazan city, Rafah, from an onslaught by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) already ordered by the bloodthirsty butcher of Gaza, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu. Bibi has thus far sabotaged the peace talks with statements that no matter what deal is reached, he intends to attack Hamas positions in Rafah and that he will not end the war until Hamas is annihilated. Sources in Israel report that if Burns’ efforts fail, that attack could commence as soon as tomorrow, which Bibi knows will likely kill all the hostages who are still alive, since they are all thought to be held in Rafah.Netanyahu knows that his oft stated intention to totally eliminate Hamas, ostensibly as a response to their now-clearly stupid and useless attack on Israel Oct. 7 of last year, that murdered more than 1,200, mostly innocent civilians, including women and children, can and could never be accomplished.“It was a lot of hot air,” said an intelligence source. “Netanyahu has been told by his own intelligence people and the IDF brass, that the attack on Rafah is not worth it, that it won’t kill all of Hamas, but it will kill potentially a catastrophic number of civilians. So, why is Bibi insisting on this senseless attack? Because he wants to drive Palestinians out of Rafah, out of Gaza, and destroy the place. He wants to do that also with the West Bank. It is not about terrorists. It is about the Palestinian state. If he destroys the Palestinian homelands, renders them uninhabitable, then there will never be a Palestinian state. Netanyahu is not a normal person. He is an insane racist, with a messianic complex. He thinks he is saving Israel, but he will destroy it. As many people in the Israeli political elite realize, Bibi and his cohorts among the religious loonies are the greatest strategic threat to the Israeli state, ever.”From this and other sources, we are able to piece together what transpired over the course of the week. First, the outlines of a ceasefire/hostage deal were worked out last week in Cairo between Burns and the Egyptians and were presented to both the Israelis and Hamas, both of whom took it under consideration.There was no specific wording that talked about an end to the war, and no mention of Rafah. Instead, through back channels, it was communicated to Hamas that the U.S. would work toward a full withdrawal of the IDF and that the IDF would cease all operations once all the remaining hostages were released. Also in the deal was the agreement by Israel to release Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti who could become part of a future government in Gaza.“The agreement had legs,” said a source. “But if Hamas was going to agree to it, it required Bibi and the loonies to simply shut up about not ending the war, and about their ‘right’ to attack Rafah. As envisioned by the U.S., in the process of the deal, with its multiple phases, all these things would be worked out.“While the Arab partners, Egypt and Qatar worked on the Hamas leadership in Doha, the Biden Administration proceeded to bungle things in Washington in how they handled Bibi. Burns told the President that he needed to be rough with him, that he should tell him that the U.S. would not tolerate any attack on Rafah, that there would be a cutoff of military aid if such an attack did occur, and that he had to get Netanyahu to agree that the war would end, were the terms of the agreement met by Hamas. In the last phase, Hamas would lay down its arms and work on putting together a joint administration of Gaza with Barghouti and Fatah.“State however proposed a softer approach to the dithering fool Biden that would, he was told, make him look tough, without having to be tough and lose the votes of pro-Israeli Jews, and thereby also counter Republican Party claims that he was giving in to the campus demonstrators, leftists, and socialists in his own Party who were supporting anti-Semitic attacks on Israel. Instead of threatening Bibi, Biden was advised to promise him normalization of relations with the Saudis, as an enticement to take the deal.“So, that incompetent and weak boob, [Secretary of State] Antony Blinken was dispatched to talk to Bibi and the war cabinet, and to see the Saudis and the U.S.’ other Arab partners. He was milk toast. He stood with Bibi and said that Hamas was the main obstacle for the deal. On Rafah, Bibi was told that while the U.S. did not see the attack as necessary, it would not try to stop it. Blinken urged Israel to pay attention to civilian casualties.”As soon as Blinken left the scene, word leaked out of the deal: That Hamas had accepted the Egyptian proposal and the final terms would be worked out over the weekend in Cairo. But then Bibi opened his mouth: Israel will never accept a compromise that allows Hamas to exist. We will not end the war, until they are crushed. And, we will be sending the IDF into Rafah.When the talks reconvened in Cairo, Hamas now wanted specific language on ending the war, and the full pullout of the IDF. And when the negotiations predictably broke down, Bibi doubled down on his insane rant about Israeli principles: “Hamas remains fixed on its extreme positions, primarily the demand to withdraw all our forces from Gaza, end the war, and leave Hamas intact.... Israel cannot accept this.”Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant meanwhile said May 5 that Israel is seeing “alarming signs that Hamas actually does not intend to follow any agreement with us. This means action in Rafah and the entire Gaza Strip in the near future.”“What a joke!” said the source of the Biden Administration strategy. “You’re dealing with a mad dog, frothing at the mouth. Bibi needs to be hit in the head and hard, and instead you offer him a bone. How stupid is that? The blood of Rafah will be on Biden’s hands as well, if Burns fails. What do they call him? ‘Genocide Joe’! Well earned.”“Netanyahu is fleeing from a hostage deal: The closer it gets, the faster he runs to avoid it,” wrote Yossi Verter in Haaretz May 5. “At least twice in recent months he has sabotaged the sensitive moves toward a deal, whether through public statements or covert messages, or by curbing the mandate of the negotiating team. It was no different this time”If Burns fails—and there is no reason to believe that he can succeed, especially given his lack of back up from the White House—then the only hope to stop this slaughter lies with the Israeli elite and the Israeli people. They will have to bear the responsibility of ousting their Prime Minister.On Saturday night, May 4, tens of thousands or more demonstrated in cities across Israel against the government, for an end to the war, and a return of the hostages. This followed the unprecedented call by former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert May 3, in an opinion piece in Haaretz, calling for Israelis to “flood the streets” to stop what he said was an insane, useless, and destructive attack on Rafah.In that opinion piece, Olmert declared that Hamas has already been defeated and has paid the price for the Oct. 7 attack, but that they cannot and will not ever be eliminated. To attempt such was an insane goal. He called Netanyahu a danger to the future of Israel and that he must be stopped from doing more harm. He urged opposition leaders to stand up to this tyrant. Netanyahu will kill Israel by insanely trying to prevent a Palestinian state, the establishment of which is inevitable. Peace is possible, wrote the former Prime Minister who is known for his prosecution of a bloody war against Hezbollah on the West Bank.As such, these are amazing words coming from him.“There will be a Palestinian state,” writes Alon Idan in the May 6 Haaretz. “It’s not up to us and it’s not about us. It’s about reality. The only question is whether we’ll enter reality or continue to live in fantasy; if we’ll come to our senses at the last moment, or if we’ll continue being so utterly stupid.”

May 4—A profile published by the website The Grayzone of Columbia University Adjunct Professor Rebecca Weiner provides useful background on the brutal round of student arrests at Columbia on the evening of April 30, and Weiner’s role in this. As authors Wyatt Reed and Max Blumenthal point out in “Columbia Crackdown Led by University Prof Doubling as NYPD Spook,” New York City Mayor Eric Adams praised Weiner for “giving police the green light to clear out the anti-genocide students by force.”An adjunct professor at Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), which feeds well-healed flaks to the U.S. State Department and similar agencies, Weiner  “moonlights” as head of the New York Police Department’s Intelligence and Counterterrorism Bureau, occupying an office close to where students had set up their encampment. This agency is the heir to what in rgw 1960s-70s days of student radicalism was know as the "Red Squad," headed by Police Lt. Finnegan, That agency was exposed for not only recruiting informants inside the student movement from among drug dealers and smiliar types, but working with both the FBI and CIA in what was called COINTELPRO (or counter-intelligence programs), planting agents inside the movement who encouraged and even committed acts of violence and hooliganism.Various sources, including those close to the demonstrations, say that the suspect that similar police agents have infiltrated their ranks, and have been the ones who have pushed rhetoric against Jews and all Israelis, as a perfect counterfoil to gangs Jewish Defense League (JDL)-type thugs who have attacked the demonstrators on several campuses. The pro-Jewish groups, some carrying batons and karate weapons, are thought to be sponsored through "fronts" and Individuals with money, by the notorious Anti-Defamation League of B'nai Brith, a group originally founded to claim that attacks on Jewish mobsters like Meyer Lansky and Harry Rothstein were "anti-semitic." In police capacity, Weiner, who supports the ADL, advised Adams on when to call in heavily armed police to violently dislodge nonviolent students from Columbia’s Hamilton Hall and their encampment of the university lawn and arrest several hundred of them. According to The Grayzone, Weiner “develops policy and strategic priorities for the Intelligence & Counterterrorism Bureau and publicly represents the NYPD in matters involving counterterrorism and intelligence.”The NYPD’s Counterterrorism Bureau maintains an office in Tel Aviv, coordinates with Israel’s security apparatus, and maintains a department liaison with them.  As has been reported in several locations, in the wake of the 9/11 attacks, the Federal government arranged for local police, including New York City police,  to be trained by the Israel Defense Forces and Israeli police agencies. “Weiner appears to serve as a bridge between the Bureau’s offices in Israel and New York,” the Grayzone article reports, also pointing out that a 2011 investigation by Associated Press discovered the existence of a “Demographics Unit”—or more correctly, the “ethnic profiling unit—” that was inspired by Israeli intelligence, and operated inside the NYPD’s Counterterrorism and Intelligence Bureau. This was the outfit that spied on Muslims in the New York area, as well as on students at out-of-state campuses who were involved in Palestine solidarity activism. Other sources report that they have also infiltrated those organizations.Revealingly, this unit was developed post 9/11in collaboration with the CIA, which to date, has refused to name the former Middle East station chief it posted in the “senior ranks” of the NYPD intelligence division. At the time of the AP investigation, a former police official told the news agency that the unit “attempted to map the city’s human terrain” through a program “modeled in part on how Israeli authorities operate in the West Bank.”Mayor Adams post police raid press conference May 1 was consumed by his rant that non-student outside agitators were radicalizing the students, and he and the police would never tolerate the campuses and the  City being taken over by or at the mercy of such radicalized mobs. This line was fed to the Mayor by Weiner. At the same press conference, she spouted off verbiage about “change in tactics” by protesters and other sociological gobbledygook about “mainstreaming of rhetoric associated with terrorism,” to justify the previous night’s police deployment. It was she who claimed—three times— that the completely innocent, 63-year-old Palestinian retired elementary school teacher, Nahla Al-Arian, who briefly visited the Columbia campus on April 25 with her daughter—and was in now way involved with the activities there at all—was a dangerous individual married to someone “convicted for material support to terrorism.” In fact, the case against Al-Arian’s husband, Sami, was an example of the persecution of Muslims and Arabs in the “war on terror” that followed 9/11.Weiner represents the same unconstitutional police state apparatus that was support to be shut down in the wake of the famous 1975 -76 Church Committee exposure of totally illegal CIA domestic operations. Instead, under the direction of then CIA Director and later President George H.W. Bush, these operations were off loaded into local police forces and various special operations, which have now, since 9/11 been militarized as well, and run through the Joint Special Operations Command of the military, which is accountable to no one in our government. This apparatus which extends through the Federal government, into the FBI, Justice Department and FBI, as well as the NSA is what should be investigated for the so-called Jan. 6 insurrection, which if properly examined and understood should be seen as a police riot. And the efforts to shut down the Constitutionally-guaranteed right to protest and the protection of free speech taking place to defend genocide should be seen a similar light.When the foolish Adams spoke of "outside agitators" involved the campus events, he was right—but being steered by those sponsoring such real and dangerous "perps," to attack innocent people. It is time to finally expose thus police state for what it is.​

May 3, 2024 (EIRNS)—In the midst of the tumultuous events of this past week—some hopeful, as with the hundreds of worldwide student assemblies convened to challenge the Anglosphere’s genocide in Gaza; others, catastrophic, as were the recent disastrous legislative actions to finance war, and to suppress freedom of thought, passed into law by the United States Congress—it is important for the LaRouche Organization to call attention to that which defines the higher battle under way for the soul of what was, only a short time ago, known and defended as Western Civilization, and the sovereign nation state. The late physical economist and statesman Lyndon LaRouche, in his 2003 study, “Shakespeare as a Scholar: U.S. Politics as Tragedy,” begins:“The frequent attempt of academics, and others, to deprecate the authority of Shakespeare’s scholarship, must confront itself with such little details, as in Julius Caesar, for example, as the character Casca’s famously ironical reference to his auditing of a referenced address by the historical Cicero: ‘It was Greek to me.’ In actual history, the manner and circumstances of the death of Cicero, is a crucial turning-point in the history of Rome, as such history may be traced from that point until Rome’s ultimately inevitable doom. How many relevant academics who claim to be authorities, actually understand this history as well as Shakespeare did; or, instead, follow Coleridge, Bradley, or the like, on such matters? The evidence is, that a rare few of today’s academics or political candidates, are qualified in the practice of history as a science, to the degree Shakespeare was.”On May 4, 1970, at Kent State University in Ohio, 11 people were shot by National Guardsmen who invaded the campus, 4 fatally, in protests against the Vietnam War. Three days ago, May 1, Josh Paul, former State Department Director in the Bureau of Political-Military Affairs who resigned in October in protest against the Biden Administration’s support for the crimes against humanity being committed in Gaza, warned that “This generation of youth have spent their entire lives in fear of having guns pointed at them in schools; what a disgrace for America that it is now their own schools that are pointing the guns at them.” How can we avoid tragedy—what might seem, at the moment, to be the inevitable recurrence of precisely such incidents on campuses, either somewhere in the United States or in some other nation? The answer is, we must think like Shakespeare: Elevate this present moment of unfolding tragedy by elevating the subject of the protests, to be what it actually is: the dignity of humanity itself.We must simultaneously outflank the attempt to deflect focus from the mass graves in Gaza, from the impending attack on Rafah, and from the British India-style imposed famine already slowly killing tens of thousands of Palestinians, with food aid convoys being denied access. We must understand the human terrain, as the intelligence agencies say. The interface, through “counter-terror training programs,” of American police departments with the Israel Defense Forces, established after September 11, 2001, may explain some of the excessive law enforcement response, which is modeled on the IDF response to Palestinians in Gaza; in fact, some of that police training was apparently conducted in the occupied territories of Palestine. Then, there is the “counterinsurgency” deployment of police agents for continuous spying on students, as at Columbia University, as well as organizing of pro-Zionist, non-uniformed “paramilitary” units, as at UCLA. The reason for the attack on the students is not merely to suppress their message about the mass graves in Gaza, or their demands for a ceasefire, etc. The reason is to crush the idea of optimism—that there can, and must be a solution that does not require killing people.“Since mankind is the only creative species known so far in the universe, and given the fact that human creativity is the only source of wealth through the potentially limitless discovery of new universal principles, one of the main aims of the new International Security and Development Architecture must be providing access to universal education for every child and adult person living. The true nature of man is to become a beautiful soul, as Friedrich Schiller discusses this, and the only person who can fulfill that condition is the genius,” says the Fourth Principle of Helga Zepp-LaRouche’s “Ten Principles of A New International Security and Development Architecture.” Posing the problem of what is to be done, through the LaRouche Oasis Plan, and how to implement such plans, not only in the case of Gaza, but in the case of Sudan, or Ukraine, or the South Bronx, that is, for the whole world, is now the subject of true education, potentially on every campus and in every school in the world. Higher education based on the higher principle, that “Alle Menschen Werden Brüder”—“All men shall be brothers”—is the pathway to genius, which indeed, can be taught, and reproduced, turning from tragedy to hope.

{May 4--The following piece was written by LaRouche Movement leader Dennis Speed at the request of someone participating in the student demonstrations against the Israeli genocide in Gaza. The person reported that she was confronted when she brought up the Oasis Plan for development in the Middle East as the only stable basis for peace that would support the existence of a Palestinian state living in mutual prosperity with Israel, that LaRouche was a notorious anti-semite.We reprint Speed's response below to counter the efforts of those, who by lies and slander, want to doom the world to Wall Street's reign of death and slaughter.}Please be advised that anyone circulating  previously widespread slanders against the economist and statesman Lyndon LaRouche—specifically, that he, or those associated with him, were ever guilty of “anti-Semitism”—is either 1) ignorant of the truth, or unaware of the police agency origins of this formulation, dating back to the early 70s fifty years ago; 2) honestly mistaken in their conclusions based on a limited sample of what is euphemistically referred to as “documentation;” 3) intentionally and maliciously attempting to prevent the unity of anti-genocide forces that can change American policy in the short term. In 1974, 50 years ago, the LaRouche newspaper “New Solidarity” exposed the World Bank’s “redlining” of one billion people in Africa, Asia and Ibero-America—designating them as “the Fourth World.” From that time, there has been a five-decades-old policy of forced depopulation against the people of the “developing sector,”which also includes the Palestinians. The policy, sired in Wall Street and the City Of London, has implemented particularly through the financial policies of the International Monetary Fund, and the “environmentalist” depopulation policies, including war policies of NATO and its agency, the Club of Rome.  This was indicated in the then-classified United States Agency for International Development Document, National Security Study Memorandum-200, “Implications of Worldwide Population Growth For U.S. Security and Overseas Interests,” otherwise known as “The Kissinger Report,  issued on December 10, 1974. It was Lyndon LaRouche‘s personal battle with Henry Kissinger from that time, and particularly from 1975, when LaRouche issued his International Development Bank” policy alternative in conjunction with policy discussions with Southwest Asian nations exploring the prospects for peace— including with sane peace factions in Israel—which caused  LaRouche and his associates to be slandered personally by Kissinger as anti-Semitic.  This escalation against LaRouche went beyond the FBI’s unsuccessful attempt, in 1973, to set LaRouche up for assassination,  Fred Hampton-style, using the Communist Party USA as a front for that failed operation. The LaRouche Oasis Plan of 2024, while duly revised from its original 1975 presentation, is essential in all respects with the proposal offered by LaRouche then. Anyone that in the present circumstance that seriously seeks to promote peace, will find themselves in essential agreement with that proposal—and must expect to be termed “anti-Semitic” by its pro-genocide opponents as a result. We declare that we can refute anyone—in the New York City area in particular, or anywhere else—who asserts such slanderous ideas about Lyndon LaRouche’s meticulously documented policies. We further assert that that refutation can be done in any public platform of anyone’s choosing, but must be face to face, even if only through a virtual format. We would be happy to meet and confer with any organization or group of interested individuals that would wish to honestly set the record straight, and set these urgent policies for world reconstruction and war resolution free for discussion. Those of us who have lived for 50 years within the constraints of this Anglo-American Intelligence slander, have long believed that we deserve the right, not to defend ourselves, but to offend and expose the dirty criminals that have perpetrated a story that we believe has done more damage to American politics in the last half century, especially with respect manufacturing disastrous, nuclear war-threatening conflict with Russia and China, than any other matter.

May 4--As the LaRouche Oasis Plan begins to be discussed as the physical economic alternative to the systematic destruction and depopulation of Gaza, students, faculty and citizens of the United States, disengaging from the perpetual war practices of the Anglo-American establishment, have thrown the rigged American Presidential electoral scene into turmoil. In response, Wall Street and the City Of London have decided to shut anyone and anything opposed to their plans for more war and genocide. Now, for Americans, the vigorous defense of the United States Constitution—not merely the First Amendment, but the Constitution’s Preamble—requires, at this moment, that all other “issues,” including those of legitimate concern, be placed in the background. The militarization process that appeared, in one guise, on January 6, 2021, now appears in another, on American college campuses. In this most recent attempt to use the “armed might of the state” to police, not only the thoughts, but the very communication of any ideas that oppose our decades-long, trillions dollar policy of perpetual warfare—expressed most recently in the recent Congressional vote on Ukraine and Israel—they have revealed that another, alien policy, not in the interests of the United States—or Ukraine, or Israel, for that matter—is at work. To whose benefit is the present policy of perpetual war? From whence does it originate? And how do the present conflict in Southwest Asia, the NATO/Russia war in Ukraine, the pending confrontation with China in the Pacific, and the earlier disastrous “failed wars” in Iraq and Afghanistan, reflect the same policy, of the same alien forces—a policy which, if unchecked, must lead to thermonuclear war? Who is sparking these wars, and how can ideas, like the LaRouche Oasis Plan, reverse this process? We must answer these questions, and then we must stand up and tell the truth, to set the nation free.

May 2—The incompetent U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has delivered a weak message to Israel's bloodthirsty Prime Minister Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu in a face-to-face meeting yesterday that he would prefer Bibi not launch his long-expected attack on defenseless Rafah, the last standing Gazan city stuffed with more than 1 million inhabitants, most of whom are women and children—at least not yet. Sources report that Blinken asked for another "week or so" to see if a ceasefire/hostage deal might be finally worked out in a new round of negotiations in Cairo.​Blinken, stating the absurdly obvious to the killer beast that is Israeli Prime Minister, told the press that an attack on Rafah, which would likely kill tens of thousands of Palestinians in an effort to deal with what intelligence sources say are a mere relative handful of Hamas "fighters" hiding among the innocent civilians, "would not be helpful" to the negotiations.Then repeating a line that was echoed by Bibi,  Blinken said that a new ceasefire deal was totally up to Hamas, a fact which Hamas denied. A spokesman said that Israelis refuse to make their post ceasefire intentions known about the future occupation of Gaza and who will administer its rule. Hamas has long made it clear that they want a return to civilian rule, with the Israel Defense Force on the ground as overseers. The proposal offered by Egypt offers no clarity on this issue.Despite Netanyahu's claim that the proposed attack is necessary to finish the job of defeating Hamas, it really has more to do with his plans for the total destruction of Gaza as a place fit for human beings to live. This is the purpose of the entire war, with the murderous Hamas attack Oct. 7 on Israel only a pretext for this war of annihilation against Palestinians, which most of the world, with the U.S. a notable exception, calls an act of genocide."The U.S. needed to deliver a clear message to this insane blood and soil racist Netanyahu," said an intelligence source familiar with internal White House discussions. "You go into Rafah, and you risk a break in our relations and a cut off of arms sales. You create a new slaughter, and not only will we not help you deal with a possible International Criminal Court arrest warrant for crimes against humanity, but we will help them serve it. You want to fight Hamas? Not in Rafah. Instead he is placing all his marbles in the game of getting a ceasefire deal. That should happen, but even if it does not happen, you need to give support to those people in Israel who want peace and accept the two state formula. They overlap in many cases with those who want to see the hostages, however many are still alive returned. That group represents the majority if Israelis and they must get Bibi out to end this war. The world needs a strong leader in  the U.S.. Biden needs to stop his old dithering ways. I don't know if he can. Blinken reflects that dithering leadership, that claims to be tough but is as weak as water."Some of those Israelis who want an end to the slaughter in Gaza and want to see the hostages go free demonstrated outside of Blinken's hotel in Jerusalem last night. You are our hope to free the hostages, they shouted at him. He came out and told them that this is what he was working for. It made for dramatic footage for social media, if nothing else.Bibi thumbed his nose at all of this. "I will do what is necessary," he said,  "and that includes what we do with Rafah."