The document discussed at the White House includes the forced relocation of most of the 2 million inhabitants, luxury resorts and 10-year US control.

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JERUSALEM- The acronym is one the client likes: GREAT stands for Gaza Reconstitution, Economic Acceleration and Transformation. It's short and could be printed on the red peaked caps sported by Donald Trump. Behind the pun are 38 pages—viewed by the newspaper Washington Post—outlining the development of the Strip after the war. The plan echoes the president's vision of a luxury Riviera that would be placed under American trusteeship for at least 10 years.

The more than 2 million inhabitants would be temporarily relocated to other countries or to designated, safe zones within Gaza until reconstruction work is completed. The document adds the term"voluntary" to these displacements, but Palestinians have already branded them ethnic cleansing, and much of the world considers them contrary to international law. Arab landowners would be given a digital wallet to create a new life elsewhere or buy an apartment in one of eight smart cities, managed by artificial intelligence, that will be created. Every Palestinian who leaves the Strip receives $5,000, rent subsidies for four years, and food subsidies for one year: according to the text, 25 percent of those who leave would be left.

In a similar prospectus obtained by the newspaper Financial Times, these futuristic phrases take the form of glass and steel skyscrapers with an industrial zone in the north, on the border with Israel, where electric cars and other innovations will be produced (named after Elon Musk). The Riviera imagined by Trump would then extend into the sea with several artificial islands. We are inspired by Hausmann's strategy for 19th-century Paris, the document proclaims, so the cities will be crisscrossed by large boulevards. In the chapter dedicated to residential housing, a photo is published showing a Bosco Verticale-style aesthetic in Milan.

During Wednesday's meeting at the White House, the president met with his advisers. Also attending the meeting were his son-in-law Jared Kushner, who invests in the region, and Tony Blair, the former British prime minister and former Quartet envoy for the Middle East."We have a very detailed plan," commented Steve Witkoff, Trump's envoy. The investment would be around $100 billion, financed by public and private companies. The president's initial intention to not have the United States pay a single dollar remains. The Tony Blair Institute insisted it never supported the idea of relocating the residents. The financial plan was calculated by a team working for the Boston Consulting Group; the promised profits are four times the investment. The consulting firm, however, stated that the model was implemented without the managers' knowledge and that those who participated in the study were fired. Now that this has been revealed, many seem to want to distance themselves from the project.

The initiative is said to be led by the same Israeli entrepreneurs who founded the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, the American organization that manages the four food distribution centers in the Strip. The group had no previous experience in this type of operation, and, as the United Nations had predicted, the delivery of aid packages was chaotic, with Palestinians forced to walk for miles to reach the points. Too few. Paths of hunger and desperation turned into death traps: nearly 1,500 people were killed by the military not far from the GHF warehouses. Benjamin Netanyahu has never presented his vision for the post-war era, except to leave room for the messianic thrust of his settler allies: they advocate total occupation, push for the transfer of Palestinians, and want to rebuild the settlements evacuated in 2005. The Israeli prime minister is certainly opposed to a role for the Palestinian Authority, which Hamas wrested control of Gaza from by force in 2007. The Egyptians, supported by the Gulf countries, are instead training 10,000 soldiers to be deployed at the end of the conflict : most of them come from President Abu Mazen's security forces.