New Postwar Gaza Plan Proposes Decade-long U.S. Control, 'Voluntary' Relocation of Gaza Population

[Right_in_Virginia]

New Postwar Gaza Plan Proposes Decade-long U.S. Control, 'Voluntary' Relocation of Gaza Population
Haaretz, Aug 31, 2025

A proposal for a postwar Gaza plan is reportedly circulating within the Trump administration that would put President Donald Trump's vision for the "Riviera of the Middle East" into motion, the Washington Post reported on Sunday.

It plans to establish a U.S.-led trusteeship over the enclave for at least a decade, transforming the Gaza Strip into a hub for tourism, high-tech, and technology, which would require the at least temporary relocation of Gaza's two million people outside the Strip or to "secure zones."

The Post revealed a 38-page document with details of the plan known as the Gaza Reconstitution, Economic Acceleration and Transformation Trust, or GREAT Trust. It is not clear if the plan was part of Trump's Wednesday policy meeting on the Gaza war, with former British Prime Minister Tony Blair and former Middle East envoy Jared Kushner.

The GREAT Trust emphasizes the "voluntary" relocation of Palestinians by offering financial incentives. Gazans who choose to leave would receive $5,000 per person, along with subsidized rent and food for up to four years.

The plan's architects project that about a quarter of the enclave's two million residents would take this option, most not returning, a shift they argue would substantially reduce reconstruction costs.

Those who remain in Gaza during its rebuilding would be housed temporarily. Landowners would be given a "digital token," which could be redeemed to support relocation or for ownership of a new apartment in one of the planned "smart cities."

According to The Post, the proposal was drawn up by some of the same Israeli businessmen who designed the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, or the GHF, the U.S.- and Israeli-backed entity currently distributing food inside Gaza. Entrepreneurs Michael Eisenberg, an Israeli American investor, and Liran Tancman, a former Israeli military intelligence officer, are identified as central figures behind the initiative.

The financial aspects of the plan were reportedly created by a Washington-based team working at the time for the Boston Consulting Group, though the firm has since distanced itself, saying the work was not formally approved and that two senior partners involved were fired.

The document outlines that Israel would have full security control over Gaza in the first year, later handing over to private contractors. Eventually, the plan aims to give "local police" ultimate security control. After an estimated 10 years, it proposes that Gaza will be governed by "a reformed and deradicalized Palestinian Polity," though makes no reference to Palestinian statehood.


More:  https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/2025-08-31/ty-article/new-postwar-gaza-plan-proposes-decade-long-u-s-control-relocation-of-gaza-population/00000199-00fb-d1bf-a1fb-98ff10dd0000

[Right_in_Virginia]

FTA:

The plan also lays out 10 "mega-projects" to be funded by public and private sector investments, from clearing debris and unexploded ammunition and weapons to the building of a logistics hub in the southern city of Rafah, as well as a port and airport for the Strip and solar-powered desalination plants in Sinai.

Other projects include a series of industrial areas along the Gaza-Israel border known as the "Elon Musk Smart Manufacturing Zone," U.S.-regulated data centers dubbed the "American Data Safe Haven," and luxury resorts and artificial islands modeled after Dubai's Palm Islands.

The plan also envisions six to eight AI-powered "planned smart cities," designed to reshape Gaza's urban fabric.

[Kamaji]

 

[bigheadfred]

Exactly

[Right_in_Virginia]

Gaza postwar plan envisions ‘voluntary’ relocation of entire population
Washington Post, Aug 31, 2025

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.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/08/31/trump-gaza-plan-riviera-relocation/

[Kamaji]

Mr Trump could build Little Gaza right next to Little Somalia in the Midwest. 

[mountaineer]

No, thank you.

[cato potatoe]

Aside from the fantasy of high-tech employment and luxury resorts, this was the most likely scenario all along.  Egypt and Jordan are not interested in dealing with 2 million refugees.  These are countries with per capita GDP of $4,000.  You're going to have a ton of refugees in Europe and the United States, and we will expected to rebuild Gaza for those that remain. 

[Fishrrman]

While I agree with mountaineer's "no thank you", I was one of the first anywhere to suggest the complete relocation of the palis to somewhere other than gaza.

And although Kamaji chimes in with "Little Somalia in the Midwest" (which we otherwise know as Minneapolis), I was absolutely the first ANYWHERE to recommend that the palis be relocated to the REAL Somalia (as in, "Africa").

But we of the USA should have nothing to do with this, if possible.
Or as little to do with it as we can, otherwise.

[rustynail]

Time Shares in the New Gaza Condo Villages?

[Kamaji]

The only remaining question is how many of the USA 250th anniversary celebrations next summer will be mass casualty events.

Utter bullshit.

[Right_in_Virginia]

But we of the USA should have nothing to do with this, if possible.  Or as little to do with it as we can, otherwise.

We never should have dedicated decades of our time, energy and stature to this sh!tshow.  Now we're fighting to OWN it. 

Why do we work with such passion against our own best interests?  It wasn't always like this.  President Kennedy wanted to send inspectors to investigate Israel's nuclear activities that, if successful, would destabalize the region.  He was shut down.

James Baker also got it exactly right In his 1990 testimony to Congress. Baker told Israel to call us when they're serious about peace:

https://youtu.be/ADcALMO5wf4?si=EPbVHR2NYjCMqgD7

Baker also got it right when he barred Netanyahu from the State Department: https://thehill.com/policy/defense/222577-james-baker-i-barred-netanyahu-from-state-dept/

When did we stop standing up for and protecting ourselves?

[Kamaji]

I pray you're right --- and your wish is not fulfilled:

No, you don't.  You desperately want your fantasy to come true.

[Cyber Liberty]

Oh look!  Another thread designed to stir up shit among Briefers! Give me a reason to not lock this shit right now....

[mountaineer]

While I agree with mountaineer's "no thank you", I was one of the first anywhere to suggest the complete relocation of the palis to somewhere other than Gaza

How about hell?

[Wingnut]

Oh look!  Another thread designed to stir up shit among Briefers! Give me a reason to not lock this shit right now....

Well you would be in your rights to do so.  But Then where would RiV be able to to post her pro Hamas stuff and wear her solidity scarf..what is is it called...A kefa?

[Right_in_Virginia]

GREAT Gaza Plan: A Trumpian Get-rich-quick Scheme Reliant on War Crimes, AI and Tourism
Haaretz, Sep 1, 2025



WASHINGTON – The Washington Post's Sunday report on the Gaza post-war plan circulating through the Trump administration offers the most crystallized vision yet of the so-called "day after."

While U.S. President Donald Trump has yet to formally adopt the plan himself, the reported draft is a profoundly unserious effort with little grounding in reality. Rather, it only confirms suspicions that the U.S. administration is strictly focused on illusory economic initiatives that have little regard for Palestinians' well-being or facts on the ground, whether in Gaza, Israel, the West Bank or the wider Middle East.

The Post reports that the Gaza Reconstitution, Economic Acceleration and Transformation Trust, or GREAT Trust, envisions what it describes as a temporary relocation of all of Gaza's over two million people, either through "voluntary" departures to other countries or into restricted secured zones in the Strip.

This, however, ignores the reality that forced population transfer violates international law, and that none of the proposed countries – Indonesia, South Sudan, Somaliland, Libya, Ethiopia or others – have agreed to participate. Whatever the guise of financial incentives, from relocation packages to rent or food subsidies, such measures would still constitute violations of international law.

Though the extent of their involvement – or how forcefully they pitched the plan to Trump during last week's White House meeting on Gaza – remains unclear, it is impossible to separate the proposal from Jared Kushner, Trump's son-in-law and former top advisor, and former U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair.

Jared Kushner, who has been advising Special Envoy Steve Witkoff, is an expert in circumventing diplomatic norms and regional truths under the guise of "outside-the box-thinking," who frames economic deals defined by their transactionalism as creative ways to achieve peace. Another Witkoff advisor, Tony Blair, has similarly prioritized economic development over any Palestinian self-determination.

Both Kushner and Blair hold particularly close relations with the United Arab Emirates, the foundational Abraham Accords member, which has a particularly hostile relationship to the Palestinian Authority. While the UAE proposed its own plan as recently as March, with a Gulf-backed postwar government and Hamas' disarmament, both the U.S. and Israel rejected it outright. Trump, by any definition, is rejecting demands from allies and stakeholders in favor of a get-rich-quick scheme dependent on war crimes, AI and tourism.

Instead, the U.S. and Israel would violate international norms by establishing a "multilateral custodianship" that it says could "evolve into a formal multilateral trusteeship." While the trust would transfer authority to an "independent Palestinian polity," it does not specify such a body, and adds that "protections will remain in place to secure the trust's assets and ensure long-term stability." This is a formal Israeli hold over Palestinian self-determination and territorial integrity, in all but name.

Should Trump advance this plan as his own, he will face significant opposition from much of his base. Already increasingly outraged by Israel's increasing brazenness in Gaza, emboldened by U.S. diplomatic and military support, the idea of the U.S. adopting fiduciary responsibility over such a problematic asset would only further stray from "America First."



https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/haaretz-today/2025-08-31/ty-article/.highlight/trumps-great-gaza-plan-a-get-rich-quick-scheme-founded-on-war-crimes-ai-and-tourism/00000199-011f-d558-afbb-4d1fae000001

[Right_in_Virginia]

Hamas Responds To Trump: 'Gaza is not for sale'
Israel National News, Sep 1, 2025

Senior figures in the Hamas terror organization flatly rejected U.S. President Donald Trump's plan to place the Gaza Strip under American trusteeship for at least ten years.

The Washington Post reported that the move was intended to realize Trump's vision of "taking control" of the Strip and turning it into the "Riviera of the Middle East."

According to the document, the Strip's residents — more than two million people — would be temporarily moved to other countries or to closed, protected areas within Gaza itself until the rehabilitation work is completed.

Basem Naim, a member of Hamas's political bureau, told French media: "Gaza is not for sale. Gaza is not a city on the map or a forgotten geographic strip, but part of the greater Palestinian homeland."


https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/414219

[Smokin Joe]

Let someone else oversee it. we have done enough 'nation building' for one century.

[txradioguy]

Oh look!  Another thread designed to stir up shit among Briefers! Give me a reason to not lock this shit right now....

 

[Right_in_Virginia]

Trump’s ‘Gaza Riviera’ plan is an obscenity. Can we really trust Tony Blair to have told him so?
The Guardian/UK, Sep 3, 2025

[...]

All parties to any war have a moral obligation to plan for its aftermath. As the principal sponsor of Israel’s reaction to the Hamas atrocities of October 2023, the US is now party to the destruction of over 90% of Gaza’s built environment and the killing of 63,000 of its inhabitants. As moral obligations go this must border on unprecedented. But when Israel eventually occupies all of Gaza, it and the US will doubtless claim victors’ rights to do as they please.

No realisable plan can involve the mass clearing of any land of its historical population and its theft for colonisation by an alien power. Gaza could never be a second Dubai. It would be an embattled ruin plagued by factionalism and terror. For 10 years Washington would be responsible for an embattled building site, until it got bored and left it to its fate, as it did Saigon, Baghdad and Kabul.

The United States may be the world’s most successful state but its attempts at imperialism have been dismal. The first was in the 1900s when Teddy Roosevelt approved the takeover of the Philippines and coveted parts of the Caribbean and Latin America. Attempts to police the world have constantly led to mission creep into prolonged bouts of intervention. General MacArthur almost succeeded in invading China during the Korean war. Having a global presence went to the head of George HW Bush in Kuwait, when he declared a ‘new world order’ under American control. He generally acted in keeping with his army chief, Colin Powell’s, later warning that “if you break it, you own it” but he still invaded Somalia.

His son, George W Bush, followed his foreign policy adviser Condoleezza Rice’s plea that America’s armed forces not be used as “a global police force. They are not the world’s 911 [call centre]”. Bush agreed until al-Qaida’s 9/11 attacks had him and his neocon colleagues itching for war and nation-building. In Iraq he promised to deliver a democratic Iraq, greater American influence in the Middle East and settlement of the Israel-Palestine conflict. America for a while “owned” south Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq and, for a brief while, Lebanon, all at horrendous cost and loss of life. In every case, the gulf between the stated goal and its realisation was enormous.

As recently as last May in Saudi Arabia, Trump excoriated “so-called nation-builders [who] wrecked far more nations than they built … intervening in complex societies that they did not even understand themselves.”

He told his Arab audience that the Middle East had been created “by the people of the region themselves … pursuing your own unique visions and charting your own destinies.” At the time he was arming Benjamin Netanyahu to the teeth.

Gaza faces an awesome task of reconstruction, and yes, the US has a moral responsibility to assist. But Trump has dreamed up a colonial intervention that not a single Arab – or other western – state is likely to support. It seeks merely to validate and capitalise on Netanyahu’s horrific invasion. It is lurching down the same grim road taken by one American president after another. The only question is: did Blair say so?


https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/sep/03/trump-gaza-palestinians-israel-blair

[Cyber Liberty]

Are you criticizing Donald Trump?