A Paradise Built on Bones: The Gaza Mirage
If Trump and his enablers believe this scheme will succeed, they are ignoring history. And like every empire that has tried before, it will fail.
Trump has never been one for long-term strategy. His vision is transactional, a PR stunt masquerading as policy. He sees Gaza as prime real estate, not a place inhabited by millions of displaced, starving people. The assumption that bulldozing what remains and paving over it with resorts will somehow quell resistance is pure fantasy. History proves otherwise. Forced displacement breeds insurgency, oppression fuels radicalization, and no amount of beachfront property will make the world forget the crimes committed to build it.
I may be stating the obvious to people who follow Middle East conflicts, but to my mind, the idea of turning Gaza into a high-end resort is as cynical as it is doomed. War may have reduced the land to rubble, but its people remain. They have not vanished, nor have they surrendered their history or their right to exist. No blueprint, no investor, no bulldozer can erase their presence.
The assumption that destruction equals opportunity has been tried before, from apartheid South Africa to the forced removals of indigenous people in the Americas. It has always failed.
If Trump and his enablers believe this scheme will succeed, they are ignoring history. Forced displacement doesn’t bring peace—it guarantees resistance. It fuels underground movements, insurgencies, and, in extreme cases, wars that outlive the regimes that started them. Turning Gaza into a luxury escape won’t change that. It will only ensure that its beaches, instead of drawing tourists, become another front in an unending conflict.
This is not about development. It is about erasure. It is about rewriting a brutal occupation into a capitalist fantasy, where only those deemed worthy can enjoy the spoils of war. But the past is never so easily rewritten. The world has already taken note, and the backlash has begun. Israel’s military operations in Gaza have placed it under international scrutiny like never before.No PR firm, no diplomatic maneuvering, can mask the grotesque nature of this idea.
Luxury projects do not survive without stability, and stability cannot be built on the mass displacement of an entire population. Trump and his allies are betting that power, wealth, and sheer force will make the world forget. They are wrong. The consequences will be swift. Political backlash, economic sanctions, diplomatic isolation—this is the future for those who attempt to whitewash ethnic cleansing with beachfront developments. The same short-term thinking that drives Trump’s every move will leave behind the same long-term chaos he has created in every venture he has ever touched.
Gaza’s people have endured decades of violence, siege, and suffering. They will not disappear because a new map is drawn over their land. The world will not simply watch as their history is bulldozed into the sea. No matter how much Trump and his enablers try to package war crimes as economic opportunity, the reality remains: what is being proposed is not a vision of progress. It is a blueprint for never-ending conflict. And like every empire that has tried before, it will fail.
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