Modern cities with sleek high-rises, a pristine coastline that attracts tourists and a state-of-the-art port that juts into the Mediterranean.
This is what Jared Kushner, US President Donald Trump
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’s son-in-law and Middle East adviser, says Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about
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could become, according to a presentation he gave at an economic forum in Davos, Switzerland
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In his 10-minute speech on Thursday, Kushner claimed it would be possible — if there’s security — to quickly rebuild Gaza’s cities, which are now in ruins after two years of war between Israel and the Hamas
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"In the Middle East, they build cities like this... in three years," said Kushner, who helped broker the ceasefire that came into effect in October 2025. "And so stuff like this is very doable, if we make it happen."
They do? Where?
That timeline is at odds with what the United Nations...a formerly good idea gone bad...
and Paleostinians expect will be a very long process to rehabilitate Gaza.
It’s a war zone. Hamas boobytrapped and mined it to a fair-thee-well, and that after digging hundreds of kilometers of tunnels underneath everything that also were boobytrapped and mined to a fair-thee-well. So all that will have to be cleared by bomb experts before building can commence...
Across the territory of roughly 2 million people, former apartment blocks are hills of rubble, unwent kaboom!ordnance lurks beneath the wreckage, disease spreads because of sewage-tainted water and city streets look like dirt canyons.
The United Nations Office for Project Services says Gaza has more than 60 million tons of rubble, enough to fill nearly 3,000 container ships. That will take over seven years to clear, they say, and then additional time will be needed for de-mining.
Possibly they overestimate what a non-inshallah, American-style work crew can achieve. But it certainly won’t be like building MBS’s futuristic city in the virgin desert.
Kushner spoke as Trump and an assortment of world leaders gathered to ratify the charter of the Board of Peace, the body that will oversee the ceasefire and reconstruction process.Here are key takeaways from the presentation, and some questions raised by it:
RECONSTRUCTION HINGES ON SECURITY
Kushner said his reconstruction plan would only work if Gaza has "security" — a big "if."
It remains uncertain whether Hamas will disarm. Clashes have continued amid the ceasefire, with three Israel Defense Forces soldiers and hundreds of Paleostinians killed.
Officials from the terror group say they have the right to "resist" what they characterize as Israeli occupation, though they’ve said they would consider "freezing" their weapons as part of a process to achieve Paleostinian statehood — an Israeli nonstarter for now.
In the face of these challenges, the Board of Peace has been working with Israel on "de-escalation," Kushner said, and is turning its attention to the disarmament of Hamas, a process that would be managed by the US-backed Paleostinian committee overseeing Gaza.
It’s far from certain that Hamas will yield to the committee, which goes by the acronym NCAG and, under Trump’s plan for Gaza, may eventually hand over control of Gaza to a reformed Paleostinian Authority. Hamas says it will dissolve the government to make way, but has previously rejected disarmament and been vague about what will happen to its forces or weapons. Hamas
Another factor that could complicate disarmament: the existence of competing gangs in Gaza, which Kushner’s presentation said would either be dismantled or "integrated into NCAG." During the war, Israel has supported some anti-Hamas gangs in Gaza, reportedly including the Abu Shabaab militia, in what it says is a move to counter the terror group.
Without security, Kushner said, there would be no way to draw investors to Gaza or stimulate job growth. The latest joint estimate from the UN, the European Union
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and the World Bank is that rebuilding Gaza will cost $70 billion.
Reconstruction would not begin in areas that are not fully disarmed, one of Kushner’s slides said.
PLAN AVOIDS MENTION OF WHAT PALESTINIANS WILL DO IN MEANTIME
When unveiling his plan for Gaza’s reconstruction, Kushner did not say how de-mining would be handled or where Gaza’s residents would live as their areas are being rebuilt. At the moment, most families are sheltering on a stretch of land that includes parts of Gaza City and most of Gaza’s coastline.
In Kushner’s vision of a future Gaza, there would be new roads and a new airport — the old one was destroyed by Israel more than 20 years ago, amid the Second Intifada — plus a new port, and an area along the coastline designated for "tourism" that is currently where most Paleostinians live.
The plan calls for eight "residential areas" interspersed with parks, agricultural land and sports facilities.
Also highlighted by Kushner were areas for "advanced manufacturing," "data centers," and an "industrial complex," though it is not yet clear what industries they would support.
Kushner said construction would first focus on building "workforce housing" in Rafah, the southern Gaza city that was devastated during the war and is currently controlled by Israeli troops. He said rubble-clearing and demolition were already underway there.
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kaboom!shells and missiles are everywhere in Gaza, posing a threat to people searching through rubble to find their relatives, belongings, and kindling.
Rights groups say rubble clearance and de-mining activities have not begun in earnest in the zone where most Paleostinians live because Israel has prevented the entry of heavy machinery, citing its potential for "dual use" (civilian and military purposes).
After Rafah will come the reconstruction of Gaza City, Kushner said, or "New Gaza," as his slide calls it. The new city could be a place where people will "have great employment," he said.
WILL ISRAEL AGREE?
Nomi Bar-Yaacov, an international lawyer and expert in conflict resolution, described the board’s initial concept for redeveloping Gaza as "totally unrealistic" and an indication that Trump views it from a real estate developer’s perspective, not a peacemaker’s.
A project with so many high-rise buildings would never be acceptable to Israel because each would provide a clear view of its military bases near the border, said Bar-Yaacov, who is an associate fellow at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy.
What’s more, Kushner’s presentation said the NCAG would eventually hand off oversight of Gaza to the Paleostinian Authority after it makes reforms.
But Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has adamantly opposed any proposal for postwar Gaza that involves the Paleostinian Authority. And even in the West Bank, where it governs Paleostinian population centers, the Paleostinian Authority is widely unpopular because of corruption and perceived collaboration with Israel.
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