There is a plan to identify for Gaza the physical projects—energy, water desalination, irrigation, agriculture—that would engage the population in skilled labor, education and scientific areas. It is called the LaRouche Oasis Plan, and it would involve the greater region called the Middle East. There is a counter-proposal, also long term and also involving the greater region, but leaving the population either unengaged or left with service sector jobs in restaurants and such. The latter is called the “GREAT Trust,” sometimes associated with the “Riviera” plan. It is designed primarily to sucker President Trump, a fan of big projects, into a scheme that has no chance of actually being carried out.
The Times of Israel now reveals that they obtained a “developed draft” of the “Tony Blair” plan, complete with an organizational chart of a corporativist governing body for Gaza, the “Gaza International Transitional Authority.” What it lacks in any conception as to how to develop the region, it makes up for by fitting “hand-in-glove” as a governing body for the GREAT Trust plan. And both advertise that they offer a work-around for the naked “voluntary emigration” scheme of Netanyahu’s ethnic-cleansing crowd.
Blair’s most recent known meeting with Trump was in the White House on August 27, whence the Times} reported that Trump authorized Blair to organize “regional and international stakeholders” around a body to govern Gaza, and to recruit Netanyahu to the plan. For many months, Blair’s frontman has been Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, who began partnering with Blair and his Institute for Global Change.
The Times cites a “U.S. official” who made the point that the Blair plan doesn’t have the obnoxious “voluntary migration” plan of Netanyahu, the Boston Consulting Group or those involved in setting up the GHF. However, the Times curiously omits any reference to the GREAT Trust plan, and those anonymous planners appear to be the same as “those involved in setting up the GHF plan.” And the GREAT Trust is more forthcoming on the details in its “nicer-than-Netanyahu” report, a glossy, 38-page ["Gaza Reconstitution Economic Acceleration Trust” production. There, Gazans who volunteer to leave are offered $5,000 and partial housing subsidies for 4 years. (They even included in their calculations that every Gazan that takes the deal saves the Trust $23,000.) And if a Gazan possesses a current land title, they get to hand over the title in exchange for title to a condominium in a future high-rise, redeemable upon their return after they are built.
