Kushner's 'Peace Deal' For Gaza: What Could Go Wrong?
The story paints a rosy picture of real estate moguls brokering 'peace' in Gaza. This isn't a peace deal; it's a real estate proposition for a besieged territory. Conveniently, Newsweek overlooks the fact that Kushner, in 2017, explicitly stated Gaza had 'no economic future' under Hamas, suggesting alternative arrangements. These 'arrangements' often involve displacing the existing population, a
pattern of 'development' seen across the West Bank for two decades. It's not a 'deal' when one party controls all resources and defines the terms. Jared Kushner's family firm received significant investment from Gulf states, including $2 billion from Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund (AP NEWS, 2022). One might pause to consider if 'peace deals' involving Gaza, brokered by individuals with
substantial financial interests in the region and ties to private development, are truly about Palestinian self-determination, or simply another land-grab sanitized by 'entrepreneurship.' How many 'peace deals' are actually just real estate opportunities for the connected?