Posted on 12/20/2025 9:28:21 PM PST by SeekAndFind
US special envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner have presented a $112 billion reconstruction plan to Gulf officials to build a “high-tech metropolis” atop the remains of Gaza, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday. The 32-page PowerPoint presentation labeled "sensitive" and titled "Project Sunrise" was developed over 45 days and reportedly presented to officials from Qatar, UAE, Egypt, and Turkiye.
The plan envisions turning the Gaza Strip into a "high-tech metropolis" over the next two decades with four phases of reconstruction beginning in southern Gaza. It also calls for turning Rafah into Gaza's new "administrative center," housing over 500,000 residents.
However, the plan does not specify where two million Palestinians would be sheltered during the reconstruction period. Israel's blockade of shelter materials has left Palestinians sheltering in bombed-out buildings and tattered tents.
In early December, a severe winter storm caused over a dozen fatalities, including three infants who succumbed to exposure, and led to the collapse of several buildings. About 95 percent of Gaza's tent camps have flooded due to the heavy rain.
Witkoff and Kushner's reconstruction plan also proposes monetizing 70 percent of Gaza's coastline beginning in year ten of the project, a move officials hope would generate over "$55 billion in long-run investment returns for prospective investors."
Both Witkoff and Kushner come from prominent Jewish real estate families rooted in New York’s property sector, with careers built around large-scale, high-value developments and deep financial ties to Gulf sovereign wealth funds.
According to the proposal, the US would provide $60 billion in grants and loan guarantees to back new debt, with expectations that the project would become self-financing as local industry and the broader economy recover. The World Bank would also have a role in the project.
The proposal is contingent on Hamas demilitarizing and decommissioning all weapons and tunnels. This precondition is highlighted in bold red type on the second page of the slide deck.
Hamas officials recently offered to "bury" the group's weapons and hand over power to a Palestinian governing body.
President Donald Trump shared an AI-generated demo for ‘Trump Gaza’ on Truth Social. The video depicts his “Riviera Plan” come to life. It involves the forced removal of the indigenous Palestinian population, U.S. ownership, and development of the land for “world people.” pic.twitter.com/j9mWl8muHD — Drop Site (@DropSiteNews) February 26, 2025
However, Israel has blocked those efforts and refused the participation of nearly all Palestinian technocrats and bureaucrats who would be suited to govern Gaza.
Earlier this year, Trump proposed permanently relocating Gaza's Palestinian residents to transform the strip into a "Riviera of the Middle East," a plan rejected by several countries but welcomed by Israel's government.
Isn’t indoor plumbing about as high tech as the Palis can handle? Really makes me wonder who they envision living there, ‘cause it ain’t the Palis.
New Atlantis?
Yay!
Somebody gonna build all these tall buildings and domebody else is gonna dream all day about leveling them, one at a time. Because that is what islam does.
DREAM ON WESTERN LEADERS...you are dealing with terrorists, thugs and criminals who won’t disarm.
Where are you all going with this?
The PALEOstinans first have to pull their collective heads out of their collective rear ends before ANYTHING can progress with these savages.
Everything the government tells us that is temporary is permanent, such as where 2 million Palestinians will be living.
I thought the Israelis turned over Gaza in an ideal state: working infrastructure, farms, high-rises… What good would be rebuilding all that stuff for them do?
It won’t begin to do any good unless they’re the ones putting in the sweat equity to put them up.
have to finally end the dangerous Fakestinian Occupation of the Gaza strip first, the further away the better (President Trump’s Indonesian island plan makes the best sense of any idea we’ve heard so far...)
do that (and maybe help clear their rubble) and natural human progress will take over, we won’t need to spend all that $$$. use the money for a REAL income tax reduction instead of the bullkrap communist-style redistributionalist teeny weeny and temporary trimming measures that have been announced so far. If that was the best this miserable Congress could do, let’s see President Trump issue another Executive Order .. it will at least back the DemoNaziCommie party machine into the corner .. of agreeing (they won’t) or coming out of their closet fighting 4-square against a meaningful income tax cut for working, productive, and retired Americans
“the US would provide $60 billion in grants and loan guarantees to back new debt”
Vanilla or chocolate, Mr. President?
These are the rats of the ME just like the Somali’s of Africa. Give them new anything, Like Ashdod and Ashkelon, they’ll find a way to fire rockets over to Israel.
It’ll start all over again. Too much tribal madness, too many killings both sides.
I agree. It’s waste atop all the other waste. Fraud atop all the fraud that went before. It’ll prove again what the world already knows after they shoveled money to Arafat for years and years.
They ought to just take that money and burn it in the desert. Palestinians don’t want peace and Israel will end up just bombing them into the stone age again. IMHO.
“According to the proposal, the US would provide $60 billion in grants and loan guarantees to back new debt….”
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No. Just NO!
All that we’ll be doing is financing Hamas, which isn’t going away unless Usrael resumes killing those savages and doesn’t stop until they’re all dead.
WASTE OF MONEY.
If the Gazan Arabs are allowed to stay or return, all infrastructure will be weaponized or destroyed.
plenty of highly populated buildings for Hamas to hide their headquarters in the basements!!
Is this the new improved way to fleece the American taxpayer.
a paraphrase: islamists use technology they cannot understand to destroy things they cannot build.
Let Witkoff and Kushner spend their own money on this, but not a dime of U.S. taxpayers’ money.
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