In a post here earlier this month (Trump's Gaza Gambit), we mentioned a possible win-win scenario for Gaza under President Trump's direction:
A Win-Win Endgame
The best-case scenario for Gaza would be for it to be peaceful, prosperous, and a source of pride for Palestinians--A second Dubai on the Mediterranean.
Mahmoud Abbas, now in the 19th year of his 4-year term as President of the Palestine Authority, asks Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, the Ruler of Dubai, Vice President, and Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates, to make Gaza a protectorate of Dubai. Gaza will fly the Palestinian flag, and Abbas will be its head of state, but Sheikh Mohammed's men will actually govern Gaza. The Israelis will be okay with this, because the United Arab Emirates signed a peace treaty with Israel as part of the Abraham Accords.
Trump's Mideast envoy (and fellow real estate developer) Steve Witkoff coordinates the launch of a real estate investment trust (REIT) with the sovereign wealth funds of Dubai and the Saudis. The REIT could be called The Gaza Redevelopment Trust. The Palestine Authority gets an equity stake in it.
Egypt gets an equity stake in the REIT too, in return for temporarily housing the Gazans in refugee camps in Sinai.
The United States gets an equity stake too.
The Gazans go to Sinai.
The Gaza Redevelopment Trust goes public in a giant IPO, with The Trump Organization committed to supervise/license local developers. The Israeli government buys into the IPO.
Gaza gets redeveloped as a second Dubai. Abbas and other senior Palestine Authority figures get luxury condos in Trump Tower Gaza, as do senior Egyptian government officials.
Equity holders in the REIT all profit, including the Gazans, via the Palestine Authority, which uses some of its profits to buy land for and develop a permanent home for the Gazans somewhere on the Egyptian or Saudi coast.
Everyone in the region profits from the new Gaza, and has a stake in making sure it stays peaceful and prosperous. And America makes a little profit from the deal too.
Maybe Trump Read Our Post?
On Truth Social today, President Trump shared an AI-generated rap video featuring a Dubai-like Gaza. The lyrics of the song promise,
Donald Trump is going to set you free, bringing the life for all to see. No more tunnels, no more fear. Trump Gaza is finally here.
Truth Social's embed feature doesn't seem to work on all browsers, so here's an X version, shared by someone using the name of Trump's Mideast envoy, Steve Witkoff.
President Trump just shared this video “Trump Gaza” 😂
The video starts with Palestinians walking through a rubble-strewn scene, one that opens up into the sunlit opulence of a future Trump Gaza.
One that's replete with a Trump Tower.
It may seem a little far-fetched, but who would have thought the United States would ever offer asylum to Afrikaners? We are living in the Trump 2.0 timeline where anything is possible.
If Gaza Can Be Rebuilt, Why Not America?
In case you missed it, in our previous post (How To Really Reduce The Debt) we wrote about a way Trump could do just that--while lopping a few trillion dollars off of our federal debt.
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