"The rendering of Kushner's scheme shows it to be more of a luxury resort for wealthy tourists than the foundation of a just future for the Palestinian victims of Israel's genocide. But since the raison d'être of the Board of Peace was supposed to be dealing with the aftermath of Israel's war on Gaza, the conversation, by necessity, had to address the needs of hundreds of thousands of now-homeless Palestinians."
"Thus, Kushner presented a proposal for a model Palestinian community-the " New Rafah "-he intends to build to house Palestinians in Gaza. The plans for this New Rafah have been circulated since the meeting. Everything is covered: how Gaza's economy will run, how its educational and health systems will create a new generation of hale and non-ideological Palestinians, and how the "new cities" will be laid out, function, and be governed."
"And everything has been calculated down to how many teachers, doctors, judges, religious leaders, and laborers will be needed per capita in each community. If Kushner were preparing an owner's manual for a complex piece of machinery or the instructions for installing and operating new software, this plan might seem flawless. But Palestine isn't a video game, and Palestinians are human beings, not Lego pieces to be assembled, as per the instructions."
President Donald Trump convened a Board of Peace in Davos to endorse Jared Kushner's New Gaza vision, including a proposed New Rafah to house Gaza's displaced. The plan presents detailed, technocratic designs covering economy, education, health, governance, and workforce ratios, and reads like a manual for building functioning communities. The proposal resembles a luxury resort rather than a restorative homeland for Palestinian victims. The plan's mechanistic treatment of Palestinians as modular units ignores emotional ties, collective memories, and injustices. That refusal to account for Palestinian humanity and grievances threatens to prevent New Rafah's success or cause rapid unraveling.
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