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 & cocktails. A more detailed, A.I.-generated proposal uncovered by WAPO, was apparently presented in all seriousness to Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu in February, complete with an A.I.-generated video showing Elon Musk dancing on the beach as money falls from the sky.

The Washington Post managed to get its hands on the White House’s 38-page PowerPoint prospectus. While I have to admire their use of A.I., reportedly from an Israeli tech team, I must say that The Great Change’s version had more believable graphics.

 

 

Images from the Boston Group Powerpoint

Images from The Great Change

What to do with more than two million Gazans? The current Israeli plan—liquidation by starvation and bombing—is less kind than the Kushner vision:

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.

According to WAPO, “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.”

 

We have to concede the Prospectus’s branding was first rate, and really one could expect nothing less than the brand genius behind Trump Airlines, Trump Steaks, Truth Social, and the One Big Beautiful Bill. He dubbed this the “Gaza Reconstitution, Economic Acceleration and Transformation Trust” or GREAT Trust. 

 

The Trust will require no U.S. government funding and, like all Trump promises, offers fast returns—a nearly fourfold return on a $100 billion investment after 10 years, as reported by The Financial Times. The FT also reported that Tony Blair worked with the Boston Consulting Group to contribute to the prospectus. The Guardian countered that “According to the Boston Consulting Group, quoted by the Post, work on the document was not approved and two senior partners who led the financial planning had been fired.”

The White House has referred questions to the State Department, which has declined to comment.

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