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mahatmakanejeeves

(66,706 posts)
Sun Aug 31, 2025, 09:27 AM Aug 31

Gaza postwar plan envisions 'voluntary' relocation of entire population

Source: Washington Post

WP EXCLUSIVE
Gaza postwar plan envisions ‘voluntary’ relocation of entire population

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

August 31, 2025 at 5:00 a.m. EDT Today at 5:00 a.m. EDT
18 min

A postwar plan for Gaza circulating within the Trump administration, modeled on President Donald Trump’s vow to “take over” the enclave, would turn it into a trusteeship administered by the United States for at least 10 years while it is transformed into a gleaming tourism resort and high-tech manufacturing and technology hub.

The 38-page prospectus seen by The Washington Post envisions at least a temporary relocation of all of Gaza’s more than 2 million population, either through what it calls “voluntary” departures to another country or into restricted, secured zones inside the enclave during reconstruction.

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.

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



He’ll make them an offer they can’t refuse.

I copied the text from Joe.My.God., as I do not subscribe to the Washington Post.

https://www.joemygod.com/2025/08/trump-plan-envisions-ten-year-us-takeover-of-gaza/

Trump Plan Envisions Ten-Year US Takeover Of Gaza
August 31, 2025
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Gaza postwar plan envisions 'voluntary' relocation of entire population (Original Post) mahatmakanejeeves Aug 31 OP
I doubt if this "plan" will ever come together. comradebillyboy Aug 31 #1
A "trust"? In "trust" for whom? muriel_volestrangler Aug 31 #2
This isn't what Israel is planning iemanja Aug 31 #3
The article talks about Netanyahu's positions Mosby Aug 31 #9
True he has never said that but a lot of people think it's his plan jgmiller Aug 31 #10
I'm sure this is based on the United States model Ghost of Tom Joad Aug 31 #4
Agreed, Bayard Aug 31 #7
Look no further for a rationale for Western complicity. Gaza's location. AloeVera Aug 31 #5
"voluntary" relocation is a euphemism just like the Nazi term "evacuation" Bluejeans Aug 31 #6
"AI-powered, smart cities" Intractable Aug 31 #8
Good thing neither Genocide Joe nor Killer Kamala were elected Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Aug 31 #11

muriel_volestrangler

(104,720 posts)
2. A "trust"? In "trust" for whom?
Sun Aug 31, 2025, 09:40 AM
Aug 31

Plainly not the Gazans - "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".

In proper language, a trust is a way to administer something in favour of people who don't have the legal means of doing so effectively - perhaps they're children, or there are too many of them, or it's a charitable cause.

But the stated purpose is to take the land away from the Gazans, as cheaply as possible. So it's there to rip them off. Maybe it's a "trust" for the Trump family. Or for ultra-right settlers from Israel. Or for any property developer without the morals needed to see how evil this would be. An Orwellian trust. "Trust is Theft"?

iemanja

(56,709 posts)
3. This isn't what Israel is planning
Sun Aug 31, 2025, 10:19 AM
Aug 31

They are moving towards full control of Gaza and permanent expulsion or extermination of the entire population.

Mosby

(19,036 posts)
9. The article talks about Netanyahu's positions
Sun Aug 31, 2025, 01:12 PM
Aug 31
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has never offered a clear vision for Gaza’s future beyond saying Hamas must be disarmed and all hostages returned. He has said Israel must retain security control of the enclave and rejected any future governance there by the West Bank-based Palestinian Authority, as well as the prospect of Palestinian statehood.


I don't see anything about "exterminating" 2.2 million Gazans or expelling them, where did you get that information?

jgmiller

(641 posts)
10. True he has never said that but a lot of people think it's his plan
Sun Aug 31, 2025, 01:33 PM
Aug 31

and I agree that it is if he can get away with it.

Bayard

(26,974 posts)
7. Agreed,
Sun Aug 31, 2025, 12:32 PM
Aug 31

And just as pitiful. Humans have not come very far at all. Genocide and land theft is still, "Manifest Destiny."

I doubt very many survivors will even make it to reservations. Far cheaper to kill them.

AloeVera

(3,732 posts)
5. Look no further for a rationale for Western complicity. Gaza's location.
Sun Aug 31, 2025, 11:23 AM
Aug 31
The plan talks of Gaza’s location “at the crossroads” of what will become a “pro-American” region, giving the United States access to energy resources and critical minerals, and serving as a logistics hub for the India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor [IMEC] that was first announced during the Biden administration but derailed by the Israel-Gaza war.


IMEC was launched at the G20 in 2023.

Wapo article for the full plan (jaw-dropping
https://archive.is/Kv4L8

IMEC:
https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/in-depth-research-reports/report/the-india-middle-east-europe-economic-corridor-connectivity-in-an-era-of-geopolitical-uncertainty/



A port in Gaza or logistics hub would provide a more direct route to the West and would allow a bypass of non-signatory Arab nations.

So that's what it was all about. Gaza's location. And gas fields of course. Land theft and theft of resources, at the cost of Palestinian statehood and the death and misery of Palestinians. Western Imperialism at its worst.

But we - and Israel - are the "good guys" right?

Bluejeans

(128 posts)
6. "voluntary" relocation is a euphemism just like the Nazi term "evacuation"
Sun Aug 31, 2025, 11:39 AM
Aug 31

The term "evacuation" was used by Reinhard Heydrich at the Wannsee Conference on January 20, 1942 to describe relocating the Jews from Europe.

"Voluntary" relocation is being used in the same manner in relation to the Palestinians in Gaza.

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