As Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza enters its twenty-third month, its brutality has exposed the shameless double standards of the so-called international community. The West’s complicity — ranging from silence to outright partnership — stands in stark contrast to its self-professed values. Meanwhile, Arab weakness and betrayal have only deepened the catastrophe: over 63,000 martyrs, thousands more still missing, 162,000 wounded, two million displaced, and the destruction of Gaza’s infrastructure. On top of this comes a famine — a man-made atrocity that even European officials were forced to admit was not a natural disaster, but a deliberate policy.
It is in this context that three notorious figures — Donald Trump, approaching Palestine with the mindset of a property developer rather than a statesman; Benjamin Netanyahu, a war criminal advancing his extremist government’s agenda; and Tony Blair, the former British prime minister known for shady deals and million-dollar consultancy contracts — have tabled a plan that is nothing short of criminal. Their so-called “vision” for Gaza’s future is illegal, unethical, and humiliating: a project of ethnic cleansing, uprooting Palestinians from their land and homes, reviving settlements, and turning their suffering into profit. It is, in every sense, a second Nakba — harsher and more devastating than the first.
Gaza as a “Riviera”
Not content with slaughter and displacement, the Zionist imagination has gone further: re-colonising Gaza and transforming it into luxury resorts overlooking the Mediterranean. Trump himself boasted in February that Gaza could become the “Riviera of the Middle East.” This fantasy ignores not only the blood and ruins on which it would be built, but also the reality of Gaza’s own wealth — including its natural gas fields along the coast, coveted by foreign corporations and occupation planners alike.
U.S. and Israeli Ambitions
Close aides to Trump revealed that both he and his secretary of state, Marco Rubio — eager for pro-Israel lobby backing in his presidential bid — would not object to Israel imposing full sovereignty over the West Bank. This aligns with Netanyahu’s dream of declaring the so-called “Biblical promise” of Greater Israel fulfilled: not merely through territorial expansion “from the Nile to the Euphrates,” but through political normalisation, economic treaties, and the integration of the Zionist entity into the architecture of the “new Middle East.” Central to this scheme is the export of stolen Palestinian gas and the cementing of Israel’s role in regional economies.
Trump’s Empty Scenarios
Trump has never presented a coherent plan for Gaza. Since February, he has floated contradictory scenarios: first annexing Gaza and expelling its people in what he openly called “ethnic cleansing”; then “buying” Gaza; then claiming he could administer it directly. Just last week, he convened a lengthy meeting at the White House with Blair — the same Blair who once acted as the Quartet’s envoy — to discuss these outrageous schemes.
The “Trump–Netanyahu–Blair Plan”
According to the Washington Post, the plan — mockingly dubbed “Gaza: The Riviera of the Middle East” — envisions total control of the devastated Strip, its conversion into a playground of luxury resorts, smart cities, ports, and industrial zones. All of this would be built on the mass graves of Palestinians, after their ethnic cleansing and forced displacement.
The proposal, designed with input from the Boston Consulting Group, is backed by Trump, Netanyahu, and their teams. It seeks to lure exhausted, starving families into “voluntary migration” through a mix of destruction and bribery:
- $5,000 cash handout per family.
- Housing subsidies for four years.
- Food stipends for those who agree to leave “voluntarily.”
This deception — a crime disguised as charity — would be funded by a $100 billion investment pool involving multinational corporations. The entire Strip would be placed under U.S. trusteeship for ten years, with Israeli security guarantees ensuring Palestinians are bombed, starved, and displaced until they leave.
Digital “tokens” would be issued to dispossessed Palestinians as proof of future property rights — a cruel hoax, since return would never be allowed. As critics put it, this is “the theft of the century.”
Universal Rejection
Despite the brutality, the plan has faced outright rejection. The Palestinian Authority, Hamas, Egypt, Jordan, Arab states, the UN, and international human rights organisations have all denounced it. At the Arab Summit in Baghdad last May, leaders collectively called for an immediate ceasefire, an end to the humanitarian catastrophe, and categorical rejection of forced displacement.
Yet Trump, Netanyahu, Blair, and Jared Kushner shamelessly keep pushing the plan — with greater detail and defiance, fully aware it violates international law, UN Security Council resolutions, and even the flawed Oslo Accords. Human rights groups warn that it amounts to a new Nakba: the expulsion of 2.2 million Palestinians, the expansion of settlements, the Judaization of Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa, and the final liquidation of the Palestinian cause.
A Threat to the Whole Region
Far from bringing “peace,” this plan would entrench permanent violence. By uprooting Palestinians, entrenching settlements, and fueling Zionist extremism, it would destabilise the entire region, threatening even U.S. allies and undermining Washington’s own interests. It is a recipe not for prosperity, but for endless wars, bloodshed, and injustice.
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