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Jared Kushner’s ‘New Gaza’ is in Keeping with Zionism’s Colonial Project

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One of the most striking features of the Trump-Kushner plan for Gaza is that it erases anything resembling Palestine. The ancient architecture, most of which has been reduced to rubble by Israel, is replaced by something more akin to Dubai. And this is no accident.

Like so many Americans, Kushner and Trump view the entire Middle-East region as a monolith. One people. One culture. No variations. No complexities. The clothing, language, food? All the same.

The only cities they are familiar with are from the Gulf monarchies. Gaza, whose history stretches back at least 5000 years, was filled with ancient souks, mosques, hammams, churches, Roman mosaics, alleyways and ports, is transformed into a glittering hyper-capitalist dystopia. One which could sit comfortably in any of the Gulf nations.

When one considers the notion that this city would be built over the mass graves of hundreds of thousands of people, it becomes obvious how odious it all is. But this is also the story of Israel.

The Zionists came into this region with the claim that it was a “land without a people, for a people without a land.” But this was always a lie. And they knew it.

This is why they destroyed so many villages and planted forests on top of the ruins with trees not indigenous to the Levant. The result has been wildfires every year, as these European pines ignite in the dry, hot climate.

The seaside Palestinian village of Tantura was referred by the ancient Greeks as Dor. During the Nakba, a Zionist death squad from the Haganah, which came under the command of one of Israel’s founding fathers David Ben-Gurion, murdered hundreds of the inhabitants and buried them in mass graves. A kibbutz was later erected on the site. Today, it is a popular beach for Israelis.

Kushner’s grotesque vision for Gaza is in keeping with the Zionist project, which never sat comfortably in the Levant. It attempted to import its European identity on to a land that already had a long and rich culture of its own.

Despite its glittering skyscrapers, casinos, hotels and 5-star restaurants, this “New Gaza” will forever be stained with the blood of thousands. Their bones will be in every foundational stone. Though they will try their hardest to whitewash its edifice, the genocide will never be forgotten, nor forgiven by the millions of people around the world who have witnessed its horror.

Kenn Maurice Orfanos, January 2026

Gaza is What the Powerful are Planning for us All

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Imagine modern skyscrapers akin to Dubai. Imagine white sand beaches and hotels. Imagine first class restaurants. And imagine them all sitting atop the world’s biggest mass grave.

The New York Times, the so-called “paper of record.” presents Jared Kushner’s plan as “glittering.” It is almost as if Gollum, himself, penned it.

As this grotesque plan was presented in the posh resort village of Davos, a place where Nazis holidayed in the 1930s, where only the world’s most monied scoundrels convene to discuss their portfolios and prospects, Benjamin Netanyahu sat at home, unable to attend for fear of being arrested for war crimes.

The Trump regime, which resembles more a band of two bit gangsters, is assembling a pack of jackals to feast on the carcass of Gaza. With Israel razing what is left of its society to dust and pushing the remaining population into walled, militarized ghettos or deported somewhere else.

Gaza is the template for what the powerful plan for the rest of us. Canadian Prime Minister, Mark Carney, said in his speech in Davos that “if we’re not at the table, we’re on the menu.” He was talking about the so-called “middle powers.” But the stark reality is that most of us will never be invited to the party. And if we are, it will be through the kitchen door and straight into the oven.

Gaza is only the beginning. Trump’s sham “Board of Peace” is both an oxymoron and an insult. Its raison d’etre is a mechanism for the wealthy and powerful to extract even more wealth, property and power. Billionaires like Peter Thiel will be integral to this plan. Through his surveillance company, Palantir, it will clamp down on dissent in a manner only dreamed about by elites in decades past.

Others, like Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, Sam Altman and Michael Bloomberg, are heavily involved in this slash, extract and suture economy. Every region on earth is viewed as a capital investment to them. In truth, they were always viewed as such. But with the planet’s climate heating up, the game has become more cutthroat than ever before.

As for the rest of us, we are the dregs of the earth to them. An impediment which is best replaced by AI and robotics. Servants who cannot complain, cannot organize, cannot strike. We are expendable, as is democracy, a concept they see as quaint, but useless.

Gaza called out to us. It shouted its warning to the world. And it is still shouting. They aren’t listening. The question is, are we?

Kenn Maurice Orfanos, January 2026