A new real estate order
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Omer Bartov (gift link) lays out how something that under the original definition of the word genocide qualifies as such is not only not going to be punished, but is going to create some really enticing real estate development opportunities:
It is true that Israel is experiencing increasing global isolation and disapproval among Americans across the political spectrum, but that is precisely what the glossy plans for a new Gaza may attenuate or even reverse: by persuading distracted publics in a troubled world that the issue of Gaza has been settled to everyone’s satisfaction.
The Trump plan, if its vision is ever realized, would mean that the U.S. government or American businesspeople working on its behalf would be selling rights for leasing and construction on land expropriated from its residents, whose value is expected to rise sky high.
A collection of real estate moguls, possibly including Jared Kushner, Steve Witkoff and Mr. Trump himself, or companies they promote, would in that way reap a financial bonanza for businesses and investors, transforming the erasure of the Strip into an international investment opportunity. While the coastline would be dominated by prime real estate made up of mixed-use towers seemingly for foreign purchase and tourism — providing profits for developers — Palestinians will almost certainly be priced out of housing on what used to be their land. The plan will not only all but eradicate Gaza’s history and society, but also transform it into a free-market economy for foreign corporations being offered “amazing investment opportunities,” as Mr. Kushner put it.
Building Mr. Trump’s so-called Riviera would depend on Saudi Arabia and the Gulf states putting up vast amounts of money on the promise of ensuring even tighter strategic and economic links with the United States. For now, Saudi Arabia and Qatar, as well as Turkey, Egypt and Indonesia, have signaled interest by joining Mr. Trump’s Board of Peace. Israel, as the Board of Peace consolidates control and Gaza is redeveloped, would take another step in its long-term objective of obliterating Palestinians’ hopes for an end to the Israeli occupation of their territories. . . .
Since Defense Minister Israel Katz reportedly proclaimed last July that Israel was planning to establish a “humanitarian city” in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, actual conditions on the ground have only deteriorated. It appears conceivable that Trump’s plan will be facilitated by an international force aided by Palestinian security personnel and the I.D.F. to enclose the population in such cities, from which they will be able to emerge only to service the wealthy residents of the so-called New Gaza. In those extensive parts of the Strip remaining under Israeli control, new flourishing Jewish settlements are likely to be planted.
One very unfortunate consequence of semantic and legal quibbling about what the word “genocide” should mean is that something that is a horrible crime of immense proportions — the violent and deadly expropriation of an entire people for the benefit of real estate developers — can be taking place right out in the open, while people argue about whether this horrible crime of immense proportions fits or doesn’t fit their preferred definition of the term.
The only reason for having such arguments is that certain legal and political consequences are supposed to flow from a formal finding that a genocide is or has taken place, but as Bartov points out, it’s increasingly unlikely that such consequences are ever going to actually happen, either in Gaza or anywhere else where the powers that be decide that “evacuating” a people from their land is not too large a price to pay, given the profits to be made from selling seaside timeshare condos.