Israel's far-right finance minister Bezalel Smotrich has said the Gaza Strip could be a "real estate bonanza" and that he is in talks with the US about dividing up the territory after the war – an idea previously condemned internationally.

Speaking at an event in Tel Aviv, he said "a business plan is on President Trump's table".

"We've done the demolition phase… Now we need to build," he said.

In February, Donald Trump floated plans for the US to take "a long-term ownership position" over Gaza, saying it could be the "Riviera of the Middle East".

The idea would involve the forced displacement of Palestinians in the territory and be in violation of international law.

Trump's plan – which was roundly rejected by Palestinians, Arab states and the wider international community – later appeared to have been dropped by the White House, with Trump describing it in July as "a concept that was really embraced by a lot of people, but also some people didn't like it".

But the Washington Post reported earlier this month a version of the idea was again under discussion, and would involve Gaza being turned into a trusteeship administered by the US for at least a decade while it is developed into a tourism resort and high-tech manufacturing hub.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5y59z6rznvo

Posted by Naurgul

4 comments

  1. It is interesting that they’re starting to say this shit in English, for the world to hear. Normally they reserve their gloating about genocide and ethnic cleansing to the Hebrew channels.

  2. This is the same minister who controls policy over the West Bank. The one that added the E1 plan, which would cut the West Bank in half and make their lives a worse hell than now. There’s a laundry list of how depraved this man is, yet he’s one of the most influential politicians when it comes to Palestinians’ lives.

    These are the types of people governing Israel.

  4. But ignore this guy and his government and Netanyahu, who has been in power for most of the last 30 years, and repeat after me: “Israelis want peace!” Also “You’re an antisemite if you don’t say that Israelis want peace while they are mass murdering children.”

    I keep seeing people theorising that the current government of Israel is trying to ensure that Israel goes past the point of no return so that all of Israel has no choice but to accept Netanyahu as dictator for life and annex the West Bank and Gaza, expelling all the Palestinians. At this stage I wouldn’t be surprised if

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