Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff have been busy planning Gaza’s future — when the hurly-burly’s done, when the battle’s lost and won — and they see the Strip as a “glittering metropolis,” both a tourist destination and a center for high-end high-tech businesses. If this sounds crazy, it’s because it is crazy. More on their view of the future of Gaza can be found here: “Trump admin. pitches ‘Project Sunrise’ to turn Gaza into ‘futuristic coastal destination’ – WSJ,” Jerusalem Post, December 20, 2025:
The WSJ also notes that the presentation doesn’t specify which countries or companies would fund the reconstruction, nor where Gaza’s residents would live during the rebuilding. This has caused some US officials to express doubt about the plan, with some saying that Hamas will refuse to disarm in the first place.
The obvious place for the Gazans to move to during this removal of rubble and then the reconstruction of infrastructure is Egypt’s Sinai, but Egypt refuses to allow Gazans into the country. It doesn’t want two million impoverished Gazans coming through the Rafah Crossing into the Sinai, where Egypt would be responsible for their care and feeding. Egypt is a poor country, but even if rich Arab states were to provide Cairo with enough money to take care of the Gazans, they will remain a troublesome, and potentially dangerous, presence. The Egyptian regime is fearful of Hamas, a branch of the Muslim Brotherhood, bringing its ideology into Egypt. Why would Egypt change its position now?
And even when the rubble is removed, Gaza will remain dangerous, given the vast amount of unexploded ordinance that will take years to find and render harmless, and the remaining networks of tunnels that those Hamas holdouts who refuse to surrender may be using? How likely is it that Western tourists will want to visit Gaza, given those dangers? Will Western women be allowed to sunbathe on the beaches of Gaza that Trump promised could be turned into a “Riviera”? Will the Gazans themselves be able to create a safe and carefree ambience for visitors, when they have been taught to regard those possible visitors, Infidels all, as “the most vile of created beings”?
Gaza can be cleared of its rubble, but it will take at least a decade to compete the task; the tunnel network underneath Gaza will make it slow going, as there will be an enhanced danger of the ground over those tunnels collapsing into them, especially with the added weight of the rubble-clearing heavy machinery. And only after the rubble is cleared will some modest reconstruction be possible. Keep in mind the scale of the task in Gaza, where there are now 123,464 destroyed structures out of over 198,000 damaged structures.
Gaza will never be a tourist destination, any more than Libya, or Algeria, or Yemen — all Arab states with even longer coastlines — will ever be such.
Nor will Gaza ever become a “high-tech hub,” any more than the Democratic Republic of Congo will, or Yemen, or Papua New Guinea. The Gazans — there is no way to put this politely — have much lower IQs than the people in Israel, East Asia, Europe, and North America. They should be able to manage small scale manufacturing, textiles and toys, but high-tech is out of the question, unless the Israelis, in a fit of lovingkindness and tikkun olam, decide to “partner” with Gazan Arabs in such enterprises, where Israeli brains can direct Gazan mano d’opera. Could the Gazans, brought up since birth to hate Israelis, submit to being directed by them in such “high-end high-tech” businesses that assorted trumps and witkoffs are predicting will be the future of Gaza? No, of course not.
Trump is whistling in the dark. He refuses to recognize that Hamas has said no, a thousand times no, and instead of disarming, is readying itself both with new recruits, and new weapons supplied by Qatar, to fight against any attempt by anyone to disarm it. If Trump is determined to force Hamas to disarm, he could send American arms and money to the clan-based militias, to help them in their battles throughout Gaza with Hamas. Or he could declare that “because Hamas refuses to disarm, I have told the Israelis that they should no longer feel bound by the ceasefire that was attained in Phase One, and should go after Hamas on both sides of the Yellow Line.” Or he might even have added that “along with the clan-based militias that have been fighting Hamas so bravely, and the IDF forces that are now relieved of having to observe a ceasefire, I will be sending in American airplanes and drones to help reduce Hamas’ forces on the ground to smithereens. I promised I would bring peace to Gaza, and the possibility of prosperity to the Strip, and that’s exactly what I will do.”
somehistory says
OT: “A judge sentenced a Kenyan national to two consecutive life sentences on Monday for plotting a plane attack reminiscent of 9/11, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced.
Cholo Abdi Abdullah received military-style training from the Islamic terrorist group Al-Shabaab in Somalia, which borders Kenya, to prepare for a “mass-casualty terrorist attack” before the first Trump administration caught him, the DOJ said. Abdullah represented himself in court, and jurors convicted him in November 2024 on all counts, ABC News reported.”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/member-of-somali-terror-group-who-plotted-second-9-11-gets-unwelcome-news/ar-AA1SU6Tv?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=b61a2db5b6914ff7a4a5b2d801173dee&ei=17
somehistory says
He wanted to hijack a plane; he ‘researched visas which would allow him to enter the U.S.’ and one of his planned targets was Bank of America in GA.
He was “arrested in the Philippines’.’
Billy says
As defenders of the West against Islam and its Muslims, we should be united in purpose to expose Islam with different tactics and strategies to challenge the terrorist system of Islam(Qur’an 9:5, 29, 111; 49:15, etc.). Perfection is not necessary because Islam is a murderous, totalitarian, Antichrist system that everyone should be against.
Allah’s Islam, a CRIMINAL-TERRORIST-GANG ENTERPRISE and a MURDEROUS-DEMONIC CULT OF BELIEVERS, Terrorist Muslim Soldiers for satanic Allah, continually fund, promote, and practice ideological subversion, propaganda, bigotry, discrimination, deceit, industrial-scale slavery, human trafficking, intimidation, supremacy, segregation, hatred, incitement to violence, criminality, genocide, victimhood, censorship, and terrorism as taught in Islamic Law, Sharia, and in Islam’s Qur’an(Qur’an 5:14,35; 8:60; 9:41, 88, etc.). Islam and its Muslims, enemies of Non-Muslims, are a Muslim Terrorist Organization(MTO).
Allah describes Muslim women in Jenna, Allah’s Paradise, as whores of Allah in Qur’an 56:37. Also, Deceitful Allah stirs hatred against Christians until the resurrection day when Qur’an 5:14 instructs, “And some of those who say, ‘Surely we are Nasara (Christians),’ we took their covenant. So they have forgotten a part of what they were reminded of, so we have stirred up ENMITY and HATRED among them until the resurrection day. And Allah will inform them of what they were doing.” See also Qur’an 60:4; 8:55.
As taught by Allah, Muslims are supremacist terrorists for Allah with their MONEY and with their LIVES while undermining a society from within using the man-made book of lies and deceit, the Qur’an. Allah in Qur’an 49:15 states, “Surely the believers[Muslims] are only those who believed in Allah and his messenger. They do not doubt, and they performed jihad with their MONEY and their LIVES for the sake of Allah. Those are the truthful.” As evidenced by continuous Muslim attacks, Allah in Qur’an 4:101 says, “…Surely the infidels(Non-Muslims) were your clear enemies.”
ALLAH’S MUSLIMS are a greater TERROR than diabolical Allah. Allah in Qur’an 59:13 says, “You[Muslims] are a greater terror in their chests than Allah. This is because they[Jews & Christians] are people who do not understand.” Islam must be banned as illegal, and we have the legal right to defend ourselves from Muslim violence. As a result, Non-Muslims are marked for death by Islam and its Muslims. Allah in Qur’an 9:29 commands, “Engage in war with those who do not believe in Allah nor in the last day. Nor forbid what Allah and his messenger forbid, nor believe in the religion of the truth among those who have given the book until they pay the jizyah out of hand and they are subdued.”
Again, Islam is a civilization-destroying, totalitarian, and supremacist system of lies and deceit because Allah, the best deceiver, is the actual source of Muslim deceit as taught in Islam’s Qur’an. Muslims under Islam’s system of deceit are more easily controlled because their is no foundation for truth in Islam. Allah in Qur’an 3:54 says, “And they deceived, and Allah deceived. And Allah is the best deceiver.” Allah in Qur’an 8:30 says, “…And Allah is the best deceiver.” Allah in Qur’an 13:42 says, “And indeed, those before them deceived, so to Allah all the deception…”
Wellington says
See, it’s when I read an article like this one I lean in the direction of Trump not knowing what he’s doing—and if Trump is in the dark here, what person in the West with political power really “gets” the main problem, the main problem being Islam in its entirety?
rick says
Excellent analysis. I can image that Gaza men will think of when bikini clad Euro women relax on hotel grounds. It’s called Rape. And those rapes will be done with Hamas’ blessings.
Does anyone believe that any poor Arab nation will allow, and even worse, pay for Gazans to rise to an economic level that their own people only can dream of?
What Westerners never understand about the relationship between Palestinians and other Arabs is that Arabs will happily support Palestinians while they are fighting and killing Israelis but they will not fund any venture or investment to improve Palestinian lives and their economic condition and definitely never work for or on behalf of Palestinians to reach a higher level of living standard than their own suffering Arab populations.
Their own Arab people will riot against a government that does so and cause their government to fall rather than see Palestinians have a better standard of living than say Egyptians or Syrians.
Palestinians have one job and only one job. To make life miserable for Jews and Israel.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Precisely. Gaza would have to be emptied of its present mohammedan inhabitants if anyone wants European or other Western tourists to go there. This reconstruction can’t happen while they’re still around
As Hugh pointed out in the earlier article, no Arab country has produced the population to run a modern economy. The Gulf States only manage it courtesy the Western expats who work there
rick says
Steve Witkoff a/k/a Wit-Less should stick with what he may know – real estate in the US. Gaza , Hamas, Intifada, From River To Sea, etc. is well beyond his ability to see it for what it is.
Would you or anyone in his right mind use Wit-Less for anything after his ( with Putin’s help or rather Putin’s direction) 28 point plan for Ukraine. That “plan” was exactly what Putin dictated to him to write. Then Wit-Less worked out a Gaza Blueprint that Hamas gave Trump and Wit-Less the Arab Three NO’s – NO to disarm, NO to make Gaza a non weapon entity and NO to promising to never try to run any government in Gaza for any foreseeable future.
Like sending a rich white student whose whole life was beach parties, roasting marshmallows after country co-ed Christmans sleigh rides in Vermont and taking balloon rides under a New Mexico sunrise to travel to Chicago South Side and formulate a plan between the Bloods, the Crips and the Ford Foundation about how they will assist the government to lessen crime for a paltry $10 million dollars ( $17 at the most) to work out a plan for Chicago’s survival.
James Lincoln says
rick says,
“Steve Witkoff a/k/a Wit-Less should stick with what he may know – real estate in the US.”
Yes.
Harry Callahan (” Magnum Force” 1973) was right:
“A man’s got to know his limitations.”
WPM says
I think the area should be cleared fence in with mine fields around it and large scale green houses built to farm vegetables.; With a few people involved (all Jewish) with warehouses ,wells ,like before the Gaza was turn over to Moslem squatters who destroyed all that was given to them . The US investors should look else where to build beach front condos .Moslems Hamas and other associated thieves of the desert had their chance and blew it .All the associated Moslem countries around Israel can take their Moslem refugee “brother and sisters in” if this concerns them so? A well guarded port can ship the produce out and supplies in .Less people involved .less foreign tourist ,less that could go wrong ,less terror targets .
jerry glenn says
“Hamas will refuse to disarm” is one of the safest predictions for 2026.
James Lincoln says
jerry,
Yes, Hamas will not voluntarily disarm.
Never.
They need to be disarmed – and eliminated.