The U.S. Master Plan for Gaza

At the recent World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, real estate developer Jared Kushner unveiled the administration’s plans for Gaza.

This map is from Al Jazeera though it’s unclear if they’re showing a direct copy of it. It’s a little hard to take seriously a brightly colored map that appears to show a bunch of giant three mile long football fields supposedly representing residential areas. Of course, no Palestinians were consulted and it doesn’t appear that the Israelis were either. Like the massive grid pattern overlaid on most of the United States in the 18th and 19th Centuries because “nobody lives there”, this plan presumes to build a riviera of glass towers and marinas, but not housing over existing populations. As quoted by architecture professor Ali A Alraouf - “Technically, this creates gated communities designed for a specific economic class, rather than an organic city fabric that serves the local population.” “This is real estate fantasy rather than urban planning,” he argues.

An image was created for the article superimposing the current population on top of this plan to show what and who would need to be removed for this plan to work.