In a move that reads less like policy and more like a dystopian horror film, a postwar plan for Gaza has surfaced with chilling implications.
As Gaza City burns and its children starve, a postwar plan endorsed by the U.S. proposes a future that feels torn from the pages of Orwellian fiction. The Washington Post reports that the Gaza Reconstitution, Economic Acceleration and Transformation Trust (GREAT) envisions the mass relocation of Palestinians, a U.S.-led trusteeship, and the transformation of Gaza into a beachfront tech-and-tourism haven.
It’s called a “voluntary” displacement—offering $5,000 and rent subsidies to those who agree to leave. But as the bombs fall and famine spreads, the term “voluntary” collapses under the weight of reality.
The “GREAT” Plan: Erasure by Incentive
The plan calls for:
• $5,000 cash
• Four years of rent subsidies
• One year of food support
• Digital tokens for landowners, redeemable for future housing or relocation
Developed by Israeli strategists and modeled by Boston Consulting Group, the plan envisions Gaza as a luxury resort—the “Riviera of the Middle East.” Trump-affiliated developers pitch it as humanitarian. Critics call it ethnic cleansing by spreadsheet.
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Forced displacement of civilians in occupied territories violates international law. Human Rights Watch warns that such actions constitute war crimes and crimes against humanity.
This is not reconstruction—it’s a remix of settler-colonial scripts, dressed in blockchain and beachfront aesthetics. It echoes past projects of dispossession, from Native American removal to apartheid-era Bantustans.
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The GREAT plan may never be fully implemented—but its emergence signals a dangerous shift: the normalization of mass population removal as policy, and the privatization of postwar reconstruction.
As Gaza’s children die of hunger and its cities are reduced to rubble, foreign powers sketch hotel lobbies on its ruins. This is not a humanitarian vision—it’s a blueprint for the profiteering erasure of a people.
