There’s a memorable line in the movie, Apocalypse Now, in which a cynical Captain Willard says: “We’d cut them in half with a machine gun and give them a Band-Aid. It was a lie – and the more I saw of them, the more I hated lies.”
There is something of a similar vibe coming from Davos in the plan US officials presented for a “new Gaza” that would, supposedly, turn the shattered Palestinian territory into a glitzy resort of skyscrapers by the sea.
“We’re going to be very successful in Gaza. It’s going to be a great thing to watch.”
No prizes for guessing who said that. US President Donald Trump then went on to say: “I’m a real estate person at heart… and I said, look at this location on the sea.
Look at this beautiful piece of property. What it could be for so many people.”
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And there you go. Ethnic cleansing cleansed by “The Art of the Deal”.
The plan promises jobs and prosperity for “Gazans”… at least those of them who are left alive by the Israeli onslaught.
Will they have any say in how their “casino homeland” is run, though?
We doubt it – democracy and profits don’t mix too well.
