The Gaza Makeover
" What could possibly go wrong? " Regular followers of the posts that appear on The Great Change will be well aware that we have a tendency to get information to readers six months to sixty years in advance. Sorry, it can’t be helped. Still, we read with a wry smile this week some headlines from popular media like London’s The Sun: Trump to offer Palestinians $5,000 to leave Gaza for 10yrs as he plans to turn war-torn enclave into ‘Mid East Riviera.’ Didn’t we cover that seven months ago? “The proposals are likely to be highly controversial,” deadpans the piece’s author, Jon Rogers. Scores of other newspapers around the planet were reprinting or reporting on the latest results of an in-depth investigation by Karen DeYoung and Cate Brown at The Washington Post. The investigation stemmed from the oddball scheme, tweeted out last February, to replace the Gaza Strip’s moonscape of shell craters and mass graves with casinos, golden statues, dancing girls & cocktai...
