The Wall Street Journal reported that Jared Kushner and real estate developer-diplomat Steve Witkoff have developed plans for the reconstruction of Gaza as an elegant, luxurious resort.
The story, if you can open the WSJ, features drawings of a beachfront ringed by futuristic high-rise luxury buildings, harbors with yachts, a dreamscape replacing a devastated landscape. It’s reminiscent of the video released by the White House last year that showed Trump and Netanyahu stretched out on beach chairs on the Gaza beach, enjoying their drinks in the “Riviera of the Middle East.”
The curious part of this fantasy is the claim that that this the cost will be $112 billion.
The presentationhas been shared with the leaders of oil-rich Arab nations.
The unsolved problem: what to do with the 2 million homeless Gazans.
WASHINGTON—Beachside luxury resorts. High-speed rail. AI-optimized smart grids.
Welcome to “Project Sunrise,” the Trump administration’s pitch to foreign governments and investors to turn Gaza’s rubble into a futuristic coastal destination.
A team led by President Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner and Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff, two top White House aides, developed a draft proposal to convert the bombed-out enclave into a gleaming metropolis. In 32 pages of PowerPoint slides, replete with images of coastal high-rises alongside charts and cost tables, the plan outlines steps to take Gaza residents from tents to penthouses and from poverty to prosperity.
The presentation is labeled “sensitive but unclassified,” and doesn’t go into details about which countries or companies would fund Gaza’s rebuilding. Nor does it specify where precisely the 2 million displaced Palestinians would live during reconstruction. The U.S. has shown the slides to prospective donor countries, U.S. officials said, including wealthy Gulf kingdoms, Turkey and Egypt….
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Together with the report of an Israeli government official suggesting that a settlement will be rebuilt in northern Gaza, this report lays out the colonial ambitions of the Trump administration. The American right wing sees no problem with colonialism, either moral or pragmatic. A Century’s worth of experiencing the ill effects of colonialism and its child, imperialism, has taught nothing.
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The “colonial ambitions of the Trump administration” are simply the continuation of U.S. unwavering, unquestioning support for Israel’s colonial ambitions since the late 1800s. Neither party has any problem with Israel’s colonialism.
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While I agree that American colonialism has historical precedent, I would submit that Trump and Kushner have re-directed such ambitions in the direction of their own pockets to the end that Netanyahu felt free to justify genocide after Oct 7.
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Trump and Kushner were not part of the genocide picture until 16 months into it. Nutandyahoo felt perfectly free to justify genocide from the get go under the previous Occupant.
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True, but Trump knew that continued genocide in Gaza undermined some votes for his opponents, and he also had a cool 2 billion from the Saudis. His peace plan was the beginning of the end of Gaza.
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DJT and his co-profiteers know how to monetize real estate. However, when land is seized by politically driven motives, it is bound to cause resentment. Have we learning nothing from 1948? Hamas appears to have a long memory and would be unlikely to forget this loss. Kushner may have a hard time finding investors for this project, even if it is a beautiful development if it is plagued by terrorism. Trump wants to commit $60 billion US dollars to this development without specifying how he is getting the money. There is no clear plan about what to do with approximately two million Palestinians. What could possibly go wrong?
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They clearly see nothing wrong with literally dancing on the graves of Gazan children and their families. Plow their bodies into the soil, grind up their bones with bulldozers, and atop their bones build pleasure temples in which the rich can wine and dine and dance.
That’s just the way that billionaires regard We the Little People.
We don’t count…not at all.
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