U.S. General David Petraeus (ret.) visited the U.S. “ceasefire coordination” Civil-Military Coordination Center (CCMC) in Kiryat Gat, southern Israel on Jan. 21 to oversee the “ceasefire” in Gaza. The U.S. plan is called “Gaza First Planned Community.” This meeting occurred on the same day that U.S. President Donald Trump unveiled his “Board of Peace” at Davos.
Petraeus compared the continuing Israeli destruction of Gaza to the 2007 U.S. troop surge in Iraq that he oversaw. Based on “counterinsurgency warfare models,” he is proposing “gated communities” in Gaza on behalf of his employer, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR). Petraeus became a partner at KKR soon after he was forced from the CIA, after pleading guilty to misdemeanor charges of leaking classified information through his mistress.
The plan is based on what Petraeus calls “Software-Defined Warfare.” Palestinian residents will be allowed access to their “gated communities” with biometric identification. The “communities” will be designed to keep “radicals” out. Each gated community will ensure all tunnels are plugged and subject to constant IDF patrols. After being supplied with “shelter” better than their destroyed homes, the “residents” will be “re-educated” and prepared for their new roles.
KKR has a majority stake in Optiv, maintaining strategic partnerships with the Israeli cybersecurity industrial complex. KKR owns a major stake in Sempris, an Israeli-founded cybersecurity identification company. In 2023, KKR acquired CIRCOR, an aerospace and defense supplier. KKR also has a stake in Global Technical Realty, Israel’s secure underground data center in Petah Tikvah. They also own Axel Springer, which controls the Israeli company Yad2. Yad2 advertises its services as “help[ing] you look ahead and build a future in your next home in Israel … from the river to the sea.”
