Under that scathing title, on Jan. 29 Egypt’s major daily Al-Ahram tore apart the nine-minute presentation made by U.S. President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, on the future of Gaza at the Davos signing ceremony launching Trump’s “Board of Peace.” What Kushner presented was just a version of Trump’s earlier, scandalous “Gaza Riviera” plan, drafted jointly with Israeli-Cypriot billionaire real estate developer Yakir Gaby, Kushner reported.
“Gaza is one of the oldest continuously inhabited urban centers in the world. Archaeological and historical records show that Gaza City’s origins stretch back more than 5,000 years, serving as a key commercial hub on the ancient Via Maris trade route linking Africa and Asia. Over millennia it was ruled by Egyptians, Philistines, Greeks, Romans, Byzantines, Arabs, and Ottomans, each leaving layers of culture and heritage,” the Egyptian daily recalls.
Today it lies in ruins as a result of “decades of recurrent Israeli wars on the Strip, under strict Israeli air, sea, and land blockade since 2007.” For Kushner, however, Gaza offers “an amazing investment potential.” Israel’s war on Gaza was relegated to one slide in his show. That slide left out the “90,000 tons of munitions, 60 million tons of rubble, and tens of thousands of fatalities,” but praised “the U.S.-brokered `ceasefire’ which released the Israeli hostages and promised the entry of `historic’ humanitarian aid to Gaza.” Kushner had the audacity to proclaim that Gaza’s humanitarian needs “have been fully met” since the Sept. 29, 2025 ceasefire was declared.
