Manhattan Developers Already Bidding on Hypothetical Resort Locations
In what foreign policy experts are calling “the logical conclusion of treating geopolitics like a real estate transaction,” former President Trump’s approach to the Gaza conflict has shifted from traditional peace negotiations to what insiders describe as “basically Zillow browsing with military implications.” The Trump Doctrine’s application to Gaza specifically focuses on what Trump has repeatedly called “very valuable beachfront property that’s being completely wasted on people fighting each other when it could be condos.”
“Look, Gaza has something like 25 miles of Mediterranean coastline,” Trump explained during a rambling interview from his Manhattan penthouse. “That’s prime real estate. Prime. You could put hotels thereluxury hotels, Trump hotelsand people would pay a fortune. Instead, it’s just rubble and problems. Very sad. I told Netanyahu, I said, ‘Bibi, you’re thinking too small. Peace deals are fine, but have you considered luxury resort development?’ He didn’t say no, I’ll tell you that.” When pressed on the humanitarian crisis affecting 2 million people, Trump suggested they could “work at the hotels” once development began.
The plan, such as it exists, involves what Trump advisors delicately call “strategic population relocation” and what everyone else calls “moving millions of people so rich people can build resorts.” The proposal includes a 15-story Trump Tower Gaza, an 18-hole championship golf course designed to “bring class to the region,” and what planning documents describe as “maybe a Hard Rock Cafe, people love those.” The documents make no mention of the current residents, their homes, or minor details like “international law” and “basic human rights.”
Manhattan real estate developers have quietly begun expressing interest in the hypothetical post-conflict Gaza market, with several firms conducting “preliminary assessments” of property values in a region that is currently experiencing active warfare. “Obviously, we can’t say this publicly, but there’s tremendous upside here,” explained one anonymous developer from his Tribeca office. “Coastal property in the Mediterranean? In five years, that could be the next Dubai if you just, you know, stabilize the situation and move some people around. The fundamentals are strong if you ignore everything currently happening.”
The Trump Doctrine’s application to Gaza has created uncomfortable conversations at Manhattan dinner parties, where progressive professionals find themselves inadvertently discussing war zones in terms of “square footage” and “development potential.” “I was at a party in SoHo where someone mentioned Gaza and another person immediately said ‘I’ve seen the coastline, it’s actually beautiful,'” reported Brooklyn resident Sarah Chen. “Then they realized what they’d said and everyone got very quiet. But you could tell half the room was mentally calculating property values. We’ve been trained to evaluate everything as real estate. It’s sick but also we can’t stop.”
International law experts have pointed out that transforming occupied territories into luxury developments violates approximately seventeen different international conventions, the Geneva Conventions, and basic moral principles that most people learn in kindergarten. “This isn’t even a legally gray area,” explained Columbia Law professor Dr. Jennifer Walsh. “This is just openly proposing war crimes as business opportunities. But I’ve been teaching international law for twenty years and I’ve learned that wealthy countries basically ignore it anyway, so at this point I’m not even surprised. Just disappointed. Very, very disappointed.”
Palestinian representatives have responded to the Trump Doctrine with a mixture of outrage, disbelief, and exhausted resignation. “They’re literally discussing turning our homes into resorts while we’re still living in them,” noted one Palestinian activist speaking from Gaza. “It would be funny if it wasn’t our actual lives. But this is what happens when you let real estate developers run foreign policythey see everything as an opportunity to flip properties, even if those properties are people’s homes and those people are experiencing a humanitarian crisis.”
Trump has doubled down on the approach, insisting it’s actually “very generous” because it would bring jobs and development to the region. “I’m talking about making Gaza great again,” he announced. “MGGA. That could be a thing. People would wear the hats. We’d sell a lot of hats. And after we build the resorts, people would have jobs working at the resorts. It’s win-win. I mean, they’d have to move somewhere else first, but then they’d have jobs. At the resorts. Where their homes used to be. It’s actually very humanitarian when you think about it.” When asked if he’d considered that people might want to keep their homes rather than work at hotels built where their homes were, Trump seemed genuinely baffled by the question.
SOURCE: https://bohiney.com/trump-doctrine-transforms-gaza/
SOURCE: https://bohiney.com/trump-doctrine-transforms-gaza/.
By: Annika Steinmann.
