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Peace is ‘a different deal than a business deal’: Kushner
Although everyone was “joyous and celebrating” after the initial Israel-Gaza ceasefire deal was signed, Kushner recalled that “[US special envoy] Steve [Witkoff] and I were panicking, saying, ‘What do we do next?’ How do we implement peace?
“As you guys know, peace is a different deal than a business deal, because you’re changing a mindset,” Kushner said, calling the Gaza peace efforts “very entrepreneurial”.
“We needed to think about what do we do next, how do we change the habits, how do we change the behaviours?”
Translation: How do we neutralize the population so we can profit from the location. It's classic colonization.
‘We need investments’ in Gaza, Kushner says, showing plan for high-rise towers
Jared Kushner has offered more details about the Board of Peace’s development plans in Gaza, without mentioning plans for a path towards a Palestinian state.
The “number one thing is going to be security – obviously we’re working very closely with the Israelis to figure out a way to de-escalation, and the next phase is working with Hamas on demilitarisation,” Kushner said.
“Without security, nobody’s going to make investments, nobody’s gonna come build there. We need investments in order to start giving jobs,” he said. The Board of Peace wants to use “free market principles” to shift Gaza’s dependence on foreign aid, Kushner said.
Trump’s son-in-law also showed a map of the Gaza Strip divided into “residential” and “coastal tourism mixed” zones. The plan includes building 100,000 housing units in Rafah, as well as “New Gaza”, Kushner said, showing a rendering of high-rise coastal towers.
Kushner, a real estate developer, has previously said Gaza has “very valuable” waterfront property. “In the Middle East, they build cities like this – two, three million people – in three years, so stuff like this is very doable if we make it happen,” Kushner said.
Trump says Gaza is ‘all about location’, echoes real estate comments
Trump’s final remarks at the Board of Peace signing ceremony have referenced the Gaza Strip in terms of its real estate value. “This is a great location,” Trump said. “I’m a real estate person at heart, and it’s all about location.”
Recalling early conversations about the Board of Peace, the president explained: “I said, look at this location on the sea, look at this beautiful piece of property – what it could be for so many people, it’ll be so great, people that are living so poorly are gonna be living so well.
“That’s the vision – they’ll look out on the waters, and very few places are like it,” he said.
Trump has previously said Gaza should be viewed as a “big real estate site”, describing the US’s role as one of redevelopment.
