Trump's 'Peace' Plan: Gaza as a MAGA Empire's Sandbox
The New Arab astutely flags how Trump's supposed 'peace' plan, outlined by Toufic Haddad, appears to treat Gaza as a grim laboratory for Western expansionism dressed as reconstruction. Haddad details a future built on Palestinian displacement, framed innocuously as 'development.' This isn't just Trumpian villainy; it's a bipartisan tradition. Remember the 'Deal of the Century' that promised
Palestinians a glorified industrial park in exchange for their land and sovereignty? It's the same cynical playbook, just with a different salesman. What's missing, as usual, is the direct pipeline of influence. While Haddad connects the conceptual dots between MAGA foreign policy and Gaza's future, the mainstream media consistently omits the literal checks and balances. Congress, after all,
rubber-stamps these 'development' and 'aid' packages. Case in point: OpenSecrets.org reveals that between 2021-2022, AIPAC, a key driver of US policy favoring right-wing Israeli governments, spent over $16 million lobbying Congress. These 'peace' plans, whether from Trump or a future administration, reliably align with the geopolitical objectives preferred by lobby groups, creating a lucrative
cycle for defense contractors and 'reconstruction' companies. One might wonder if 'reconstruction' is just coded language for 'new market creation' after the last one was systematically destroyed.