He plans to move the 1.8 million Palestinians to other countries (there were 2.3 million before 10/7 so I guess we lost a few hundred thousand somewhere ).
Calls it a Demolition site. Virtually every building destroyed (our bombs). US will take over the Gaza Strip. We will own it and be responsible for removing unexploded bombs and get rid of the destroyed buildings, level it out and create an economic development and unlimited number of jobs and housing for the people of the area.
Hey, what about Lahaina, LA and West North Carolina?
That’s a lot of checks he is writing. And what people are we building homes and jobs for if the Palestinians are gone? Israelis and Rich Oil Sheiks from Saudi Arabia. Maybe room for a Trump Resort and Gaz-A-Lago? $TRUMP Memecoin as a new currency for New Gazans?
Cant help but flash back to last March
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.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/19/jared-kushner-gaza-waterfront-property-israel-negev
And then in May
in May, the office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reportedly unveiled a (still unconfirmed) plan for the region dubbed “Gaza 2035.”
As outlined in the trade publication The Architect’s Newspaper, the plan envisions postwar Gaza as a tabula rasa, purged of residents, on which Netanyahu can realize a cartoonish, convoluted vision of fossil fuel extraction (an estimated 1.7 billion barrels of oil sit in the Strip’s coastal area), preemptive greenwashing (there’s talk of “electric car manufacturing cities”), and total fealty to the technology and real estate industries to shape the land.
The proposal was accompanied by AI-generated images showing hyper-modern skyscrapers, offshore oil rigs, solar energy fields, and other details that evoke a generic technocratic vision of urban progress.
In order to complete the plan by 2035, Netanyahu proposes that after 12 months spent “freeing” the region of Hamas, Gaza will be put under the patronizing supervision of Bahrain, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and Morocco…..
https://www.thenation.com/article/world/gaza-2035-aec-neom-saudi/tnamp/
So on the heels of allegedly cancelling USAID, or at least moving its $40 -$50 billion in annual funding over to State Department he announces this humongous aid and development project that may be overseen by the State Department headed by Rubio.
Rubio says US ready to ‘Make Gaza Beautiful Again’ after Trump calls for takeover
https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/rubio-says-us-ready-to-make-gaza-beautiful-again-after-trump-calls-for-takeover/
USAID after all is primarily responsible for administering civilian foreign aid and development assistance.
Gaza would fit the bill. The problem is many at USAID actually believe in human rights so they cant be allowed to see whats happening in Gaza. They might tell us.
This may also explain why Trumps announcing the exit from United Nations Human Rights Council and continue a halt to funding for the U.N. Palestinian relief agency UNRWA,
It also occurs to me they might want to take some or a lot of money authorized by Congress for other projects to be used for OPERATION GAZA.
Anyways, just thought I would share my initial reaction . My first draft had a lot of swear words but I cleaned it up after I cooled off.
Oh wow. Good catch. I wonder how the MAGA cult is going to rationalize this one, but at this stage anything can be expected. I mean, I've read someone in the comments section swooning all over Trump/Musk setting a colony - I kid you not - on friggin' planet Mars so I guess Gaza must be small fry to these people - at least until the chickens come home to roost, that is...
I have a different take on this:
https://open.substack.com/pub/sevastianwintersps/p/trumps-gaza-gambit-the-con-the-distraction?r=5wog&utm_medium=ios