Post Exposes Plan to Loot Gaza for Profit in Trump Riviera

Sept. 3—The Washington Post exposed this week a plan, ostensibly backed by Wall Street and sections of the U.S. government, to redevelop Gaza for the benefit of private investors, which they claim would create a virtual American colony and the "Trump Riviera" playground for the Golden Billion. 

The lengthy, detailed story is primarily based on "a 38-page prospectus seen by the Washington Post [which] 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.” 

According to the prospectus, “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.” Other sources have put that figure as high as $9,000.

Voluminous details follow but it is not until near the end what the strategic intentions behind the plan are, aside from the profit motive. “The plan talks of Gaza’s location ‘at the crossroads’ of what will become a ‘pro-American’ region, giving the United States access to energy resources and critical minerals, and serving as a logistics hub for the India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor (IMEC) that was first announced during the Biden administration but derailed by the Israel-Gaza war.” 

Behind the plan, called the “Gaza Reconstitution, Economic Acceleration and Transformation Trust” (or GREAT Trust), are reported to be the same group of synarchist financial interests that created the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation operation, which now regulates the starvation in Gaza, as a for-profit food distribution network linked to Washington and the Israeli military. Trump’s February vow to own and redevelop Gaza offered both a green light and a road map for the group of Israeli businessmen, led by entrepreneurs Michael Eisenberg, an Israeli American, and Liran Tancman, a former Israeli military intelligence officer.

No one would speak to the Post about the plan on the record and it is not clear if it was discussed at the Aug. 26 White House meeting attended by, among others, Tony Blair and Jared Kushner, who are known to support similar schemes. Perhaps most appealing, it purports to require no U.S. government funding, while creating significant profit to investors, the Post says. “Calculations included in the plan envision a nearly fourfold return on a $100 billion investment after 10 years, with ongoing ‘self-generating’ revenue streams,” the prospectus reportedly says.

And what of the 2 million Palestinians whose lives are being destroyed in Gaza? While the plan offers the “option” from some of them to stay, it is more profitable for them to leave: “The plan estimates that every individual departure from Gaza would save the Trust $23,000, compared with the cost of temporary housing and what it calls ”life support" services in the secure zones for those who stay."

Sources report that the investment group behind this looting scheme has been in contact with the Netanyahu government, as well as with leaders of the fascist Israeli settlers movement, who have plans to create Israeli settlements inside Gaza, Those would be located in the north, away from the resort communities created in the south, along the Mediterranean coast. Supposedly, the group would sell land to the settlers for development, who would use funds that would be backed by bonds from the Israeli government.

A source contacted who has also seen the prospectus, and who has spoken to people involved, say they envision the area to be secured by American guarantees, and it could be an autonomous region, not part of Israel, but part of a new Palestinian state, where taxes paid would go both to investors and the Palestinian state. The source said the deranged people behind this scheme say that the revenue generated might actually make a Palestinian state economically viable.