"Last week, Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner formally announced the US government's long-awaited "master plan" for the future of the Gaza Strip-one Trump's Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff has said was in the works for two years. Kushner could not have chosen a more fitting venue for the spectacle: the World Economic Forum at Davos, where the powerful gather to congratulate themselves for expressing concern about crises they have no intention of resolving."
"The picture Kushner painted of a "new" Gaza-replete with looming luxury high-rises and sprawling resorts -is unrecognizable not only from the morbid expanse of rubble that Israel has turned the territory into during more than two years of genocide, but also from the once-teeming city that endured, despite all odds, under a suffocating Israeli blockade for decades. But there is something even more sinister at the heart of Kushner's vision: the effective absence of Palestinians."
Jared Kushner unveiled a US 'master plan' for Gaza at the World Economic Forum in Davos, promoting luxury high-rises and sprawling resorts. The proposed redevelopment stands in stark contrast to Gaza's widespread rubble after more than two years of Israeli bombardment and a decades-long suffocating blockade. The plan minimizes Palestinian presence by relying on attrition rather than a single overt expulsion. Authorities market population removal as 'voluntary migration,' obscuring the pressures that would drive people from their homes. The strategy aligns with reported calls to 'thin out' Gaza's population while avoiding immediate international backlash over direct ethnic cleansing.
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