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LetMyPeopleVote

(169,063 posts)
Mon Sep 1, 2025, 04:12 PM Monday

Gaza postwar plan envisions 'voluntary' relocation of entire population

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/

A postwar plan for Gaza circulating within the Trump administration, modeled on President Donald Trump’s vow to “take over” the enclave, would turn it into a trusteeship administered by the United States for at least 10 years while it is transformed into a gleaming tourism resort and high-tech manufacturing and technology hub.

The 38-page prospectus seen by The Washington Post envisions at least a temporary relocation of all of Gaza’s 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......

It’s 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 president’s 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.
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Uncle Joe

(63,024 posts)
2. That was always the plan, at least since spring of 24 if not before October 7th of 23.
Mon Sep 1, 2025, 04:29 PM
Monday

Updated Aug 27, 2025

Jared Kushner, Tony Blair participate in Gaza meeting at the White House, sources say

(snip)

Kushner, who is Trump’s 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 doesn’t hold an official role inside the White House.

(snip)

The president’s son-in-law, who served as a chief Middle East negotiator in Trump’s first term and built deep relationships with leaders in the region, informally advised administration officials on negotiations with Arab leaders ahead of the president’s 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 Gaza’s ‘waterfront property could be very valuable’

Donald Trump’s 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 Gaza’s “waterfront property” and suggested Israel should remove civilians while it “cleans up” the strip.

The former property dealer, married to Donald Trump’s 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 Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, earlier this month.

(snip)

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)
4. The same thing that was not stopping them before.
Mon Sep 1, 2025, 04:58 PM
Monday

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)
10. THIS! Yeah..
Mon Sep 1, 2025, 08:09 PM
Monday

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...

Nixie

(17,810 posts)
15. The FAFO is definitely on them. Their statement votes
Tue Sep 2, 2025, 06:03 AM
Tuesday

against Harris got them Trump, and look at it now.

Irish_Dem

(73,755 posts)
6. They're killing the native inhabitants to build a luxury Trump resort.
Mon Sep 1, 2025, 05:22 PM
Monday

They are relocating them to the afterlife.

Disaffected

(5,851 posts)
7. "...pay Palistinians to leave."
Mon Sep 1, 2025, 05:27 PM
Monday

Yeah, "It'll pay you to leave (right away)" is how it will be put to them.

The Oppressed Become the Oppressors

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cliffside

(1,309 posts)
12. Also 'The Winter Will Be a Catastrophe' Gaza Faces Deadly Respiratory Outbreak Amid War, Hunger, and Medicine Shortage
Mon Sep 1, 2025, 10:15 PM
Monday

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)
13. Thanks for posting this...
Tue Sep 2, 2025, 12:19 AM
Tuesday

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!

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