As the old saying goes, “For a man with a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.” For Donald Trump every geopolitical crisis seems like a real estate bonanza. That is most certainly how Trump is massaging the bogus Gaza “ceasefire” into a big-time redevelopment project.
And the Trump is out there looking for investors for this real estate deal of the century, just like he used to do in Atlantic City when he launched his disastrous Trump Taj Mahal Casino.
That was what was a foot in his talks with his “good friend” the King of Jordan about a big-money solution, a plan to build housing for the 1.5 million Palestinians who will be relocated out of Gaza to concentration camps to be erected in Jordan, Egypt, Syria, and elsewhere. He was cribbing from his runaway “best seller” the Art of the Deal. “Gaza will be the next Times Square!” he told the King.
Trump is certain of one thing: the genius of his plan. He has been hatching it for some time with some help from Benjamin Netanyahu, Miriam Adelson, and other geniuses.
You could say he is treating Palestinians like he threated the poor that he drove out of Manhattan Apartments so he could build his luxury Trump Hotels and Trump Towers, all the while raking in massive government subsidies:
Trump declared, “You’re talking about a million and a half people, and we just clean out that whole thing.”
He did not even mention the plans to redevelop Lebanon as part of this big free-for-all. Most likely, Gaza, Lebanon, Jordan and Syria will all be part of a “Greater Israel-Trumpland” development that will be governed from the massive American Embassy being erected in secrecy in Beirut. That embassy will be the second largest embassy in the world, and will employ 5,000 or more people (compared with the US embassy in China with 1,300 total employees) in a country with a population of 5.5 million.
Massive US Embassy being constructed in Lebanon
The Gaza of working people and open markets will vanish without a trace and we will be as blind as Samson about the fate of the deported Palestinians. John Milton wrote in “Samson Agonistes,” a tribute to the tragic blindness of the powerful and conceited in Gaza, that we will “find him eyeless in Gaza at the mill with slaves.” Perhaps he was talking about the Trump?
No doubt we will be seeing a Trump Plaza Gaza rising up from the wreckage in very near future. He declared, “Gaza’s interesting, it’s a phenomenal location. On the sea, the best weather. Everything’s good. Some beautiful things can be done with it. It’s very interesting. Some fantastic things can be done with it.”
Come to think of it, Gaza looks a lot like Palm Beach. Perfect for a new Mar a Lago and Casino!
“Gaza’s interesting, it’s a phenomenal location,” he said on Monday. “On the sea, the best weather. Everything’s good. Some beautiful things can be done with it. It’s very interesting. Some fantastic things can be done with it.”
A similar colonialist mentality which wants to grab, rape, and plunder Greenland, Canada, Venezuela, et al….