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The Trump administration and international partners are discussing proposals to build a Riviera of the Middle East on the rubble of Gaza. One would establish U.S. control and pay Palestinians to leave.
Hmm a plan to forcibly expel a native population and develop their land into a kind of "living space" for settlers, I wonder if there is a word in German for this kind of thing
— Leonard Pierce (@leonardpierce.bsky.social) 2025-08-31T14:33:18.854Z
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/08/31/trump-gaza-plan-riviera-relocation/
The 38-page prospectus seen by The Washington Post envisions at least a temporary relocation of all of Gazas more than 2 million population, either through what it calls voluntary departures to another country or into restricted, secured zones inside the enclave during reconstruction......
Called the Gaza Reconstitution, Economic Acceleration and Transformation Trust, or GREAT Trust, the proposal was developed by some of the same Israelis who created and set in motion the U.S.- and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) now distributing food inside the enclave. Financial planning was done by a team working at the time for the Boston Consulting Group.
People familiar with the trust planning and with administration deliberations over postwar Gaza spoke about the sensitive subject on the condition of anonymity. The White House referred questions to the State Department, which declined to comment. BCG has said that work on the trust plan was expressly not approved and that two senior partners who led the financial modeling were subsequently fired......
Its not clear if the detailed and comprehensive GREAT Trust proposal is what Trump has in mind. But major elements of it, according to two people familiar with the planning, were specifically designed to make real the presidents vision of a Riviera of the Middle East.
Perhaps most appealing, it purports to require no U.S. government funding and offer significant profit to investors. Unlike the controversial and sometimes cash-strapped GHF, which uses armed private U.S. security contractors to distribute food in four southern Gaza locations, the trust plan does not rely on donations, the prospectus says. Instead, it would be financed by public and private-sector investment in what it calls mega-projects, from electric vehicle plants and data centers to beach resorts and high-rise apartments.

marble falls
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Uncle Joe
(63,024 posts)Updated Aug 27, 2025
Jared Kushner, Tony Blair participate in Gaza meeting at the White House, sources say
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Kushner, who is Trumps son-in-law and was an influential adviser during his first administration, has quietly advised administration officials on Middle East issues since Trump returned to office in January. He doesnt hold an official role inside the White House.
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The presidents son-in-law, who served as a chief Middle East negotiator in Trumps first term and built deep relationships with leaders in the region, informally advised administration officials on negotiations with Arab leaders ahead of the presidents visit to the Middle East in May.
Kushner is also close with Netanyahu, with whom he has close family ties dating back decades.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/27/politics/gaza-meeting-jared-kushner
Tue 19 Mar 2024 10.58 EDT
Jared Kushner says Gazas waterfront property could be very valuable
Donald Trumps son-in-law also says Israel should bulldoze an area of the Negev desert and move Palestinians there
Jared Kushner has praised the very valuable potential of Gazas waterfront property and suggested Israel should remove civilians while it cleans up the strip.
The former property dealer, married to Donald Trumps daughter Ivanka, made the comments in an interview at Harvard University on 15 February. The interview was posted on the YouTube channel of the Middle East Initiative, a program of Harvards Kennedy School of Government, earlier this month.
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/19/jared-kushner-gaza-waterfront-property-israel-negev
Thanks for the thread LetMyPeopleVote
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Uncle Joe
(63,024 posts)Back when the protesters; from all religions protesting an ongoing genocide and ethnic cleansing were being trashed as 'anti-Semitic.'
Consequences; whether by action or inaction shape elections.
AloeVera
(3,672 posts)Refusal to back down on a policy deeply opposed by a majority of your base...who would have thunk there'd be CONSEQUENCES!
Oh but that's the voters fault, right? Another round of FAFO incoming...
LetMyPeopleVote
(169,063 posts)The Gaza voters should have thought about this.
Nixie
(17,810 posts)against Harris got them Trump, and look at it now.
Irish_Dem
(73,755 posts)They are relocating them to the afterlife.
Disaffected
(5,851 posts)Yeah, "It'll pay you to leave (right away)" is how it will be put to them.
The Oppressed Become the Oppressors
AloeVera
(3,672 posts)hookaleft
(1,049 posts)LIHOP
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B.See
(6,322 posts)...go figure.
Nixie
(17,810 posts)cliffside
(1,309 posts)This was posted in the IP forum, do not want to divert attention from plans for the day after but these infections will eliminate some people.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/1134144965
https://archive.ph/FpfsD
"In Gaza, health officials are warning of a sharp rise in respiratory infections likely flu or COVID that have already sickened thousands.
The outbreak is spreading fastest among displaced families crowded into tents and shelters without sanitation, where children and the chronically ill are especially vulnerable."
From the WaPo article for the postwar plan ...
'Those who own land would be offered a digital token by the trust in exchange for rights to redevelop their property, to be used to finance a new life elsewhere or eventually redeemed for an apartment in one of six to eight new AI-powered, smart cities to be built in Gaza. Each Palestinian who chooses to leave would be given a $5,000 cash payment and subsidies to cover four years of rent elsewhere, as well as a year of food."
FormerOstrich
(2,839 posts)and a
I just posted about how I hadn't seen discussions on this and some other items. I'm glad I was wrong and it has its own post!