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muriel_volestrangler

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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"?

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