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Showing Original Post only (View all)Gaza postwar plan envisions 'voluntary' relocation of entire population [View all]
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 Trumps 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 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.
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.
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Gaza postwar plan envisions 'voluntary' relocation of entire population [View all]
LetMyPeopleVote
Monday
OP
That was always the plan, at least since spring of 24 if not before October 7th of 23.
Uncle Joe
Monday
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