From Jairus Banaji’s Facebook page
A builder fantasizes about transforming Gaza into the Riviera of the Middle East, with a string of luxury hotels for the consumption of the world’s super-rich. Netanyahu looks baffled and even pained by the thought, because this real estate fantasy transforms the Israeli state into a mercenary that has unwittingly helped the builder clear a slum (as both the US and Israel see Gaza) for what developers call ‘redevelopment’, but redevelopment by US capital.
The subtext here is that Netanyahu has to agree to this as payback for the Americans’ assistance in genocide. This seals his fate in the event that Israel goes into an election later this year. There’s no way the Israeli middle class is going to be happy with the idea that 5,942 IDF personnel had been killed (by the end of 2024) just to hand Gaza over to a US builder (Trump), who never knows where to draw the line between public and private and has a tendency to plunge the world into shock and awe with crass stupidities dressed up as ‘policy’.
https://www.facebook.com/675680488/posts/10162210616670489/?mibextid=rS40aB7S9Ucbxw6v
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