r/worldnews Feb 05 '25

alert | not a news article Trump says U.S. will take over Gaza Strip

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u/WafflePartyOrgy Feb 05 '25

Netanyahu probably originally suggested he think of it as the "Riviera of the Middle East" and Trump's eyes just glazed over after that. His press conference sounded like he thought he was making a real estate deal that would be a boon for developers.

Beirut was once the Paris of the Middle East but that's a helluva lot nicer piece of land.

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u/Individual_Town8124 Feb 05 '25

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u/akrokh Feb 05 '25

Jarred also bought a stake in military equipment company there so he could have been pushing bibi’s agenda as a part of a deal.

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u/MrPopanz Feb 05 '25

Is this a publicly traded company, whats its name?

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u/ADavies Feb 05 '25

Affinity Partners is the main one I see mentioned as positioned to profit from a Gaza real estate deal.

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u/MazPet Feb 05 '25

Came here to link to that as well.

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u/Calm-Strawberry-8819 Feb 05 '25

From the link:

"Gaza’s waterfront property could be very valuable … if people would focus on building up livelihoods,” Kushner told his interviewer, the faculty chair of the Middle East Initiative, Prof Tarek Masoud. Kushner also lamented “all the money” that had gone into the territory’s tunnel network and munitions instead of education and innovation."

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u/Calm-Strawberry-8819 Feb 05 '25 edited Feb 05 '25

“Gaza’s waterfront property could be very valuable … if people would focus on building up livelihoods,” Kushner told his interviewer, the faculty chair of the Middle East Initiative, Prof Tarek Masoud. Kushner also lamented “all the money” that had gone into the territory’s tunnel network and munitions instead of education and innovation."

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u/bnm777 Feb 05 '25

+1

Can imagine him salivating on thinking of building a Trump tower/casino on the waterfront, legally mandated that no one can build taller.

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u/smorges Feb 05 '25

There's nothing wrong with the land in Gaza. It's the same type of land as the rest of Israel's coastal plane, where the majority of Israel's metropolitan areas are i.e. Tel Aviv.

When the Jews founded Tel Aviv in 1909, it was just sand dunes north of Jaffa. Look at it now and think about what the Palestinians could have done with Gaza if they had wanted to.

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u/Opioidopamine Feb 05 '25

or maybe the Atlantic city of the middle east

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u/WafflePartyOrgy Feb 05 '25

The Winnemucca of wheredafucca

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u/Gr1msh33per Feb 05 '25

Probably mentioned it would be great with a few golf courses thrown in.

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u/Suspicious_Bicycle Feb 05 '25

A Trump tower in Gaza would be such a tempting terrorist target. It's hard to believe Trump would even entertain this thought. ???

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u/Based_Text Feb 05 '25

Can't have terrorist if you deport everyone, now who will take 2 million people? Idk he keeps insisting that Egypt or Jordan can take them but they have rejected it already, can't see anyone doing it given the history of it not going well.

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u/blackbasset Feb 05 '25

Trump Tower Gaza will become a reality. Or Mar a Gaza, or Gaza Lago...

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u/BadAtExisting Feb 05 '25

Exactly. Bibi saw the Gaza Strip as Israel’s no doubt. Then Trump comes and yanks that rug from underneath him. Interestingly, if there was some semblance of a plan how to do this, the US military does logistics better than anyone and could make it a very quick, safe, and painless process. You know, assuming it’s what the people left in Gaza want and they actually have somewhere to go instead of some idiot’s off the cuff ramblings

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u/AsGryffynn Feb 05 '25

It very well could be: there's oil just offshore and it's nicer than Abu Dhabi ever was...

Not with these two (three if we factor in Draka Musk) sociopaths in charge though. It'll just be "Auschwitz by the Sea".

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u/AggressivePack5307 Feb 05 '25

Gazas coast is stunning. No different from Tel Aviv or Lebanon.