Tag: Gaza Strip

The Benefits of New Gaza: Defeating Marxism and radical religious terrorism, with capitalism

The recent World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, held in January 2026, featured several high-profile discussions on global stability, with a particular focus on Middle East redevelopment and peace initiatives. On January 22, 2026, Jared Kushner, a key figure in prior Middle East diplomacy and now associated with the Board of Peace, presented a detailed “master plan” for post-war Gaza reconstruction during a signing ceremony for the Board’s charter.<sup>1</sup> This vision, often referred to as “New Gaza,” proposed a comprehensive transformation of the territory through phased development, private-sector investment, and economic revitalization, drawing parallels to successful urban models in the Gulf region such as Dubai and Abu Dhabi.

The plan outlined four primary phases: beginning in southern Rafah (termed “New Rafah” or “City 1”), progressing to Khan Younis (“City 2”), the central refugee camps (“City 3”), and culminating in Gaza City (“City 4”). It envisioned over 100,000 permanent housing units in initial stages, alongside 200 education centers, 180 cultural, religious, and vocational facilities, and 75 medical centers.<sup>2</sup> Infrastructure elements included a new port, airport, freight rail line, logistics corridors, and ring roads to connect urban centers. Projections included raising Gaza’s GDP from a war-depressed level of approximately $362 million (as reported in 2024) to $10 billion by 2035, generating 500,000 jobs, and attracting $25–30 billion in investments, predominantly from private sources.<sup>3</sup> Construction timelines suggested major elements could be completed in 2–3 years under conditions of demilitarization and enhanced security, with an emphasis on turning the Mediterranean coastline into a thriving tourism and enterprise zone.<sup>4</sup>

This approach builds directly on the legacy of the Abraham Accords, signed in 2020, which normalized relations between Israel and several Arab states (United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Morocco, and Sudan), fostering economic cooperation, technology sharing, and reduced conflict incentives.<sup>5</sup> The Accords have demonstrated measurable economic benefits, including increased trade volumes, joint ventures in sectors like agriculture and cybersecurity, and broader regional investment flows, contributing to a paradigm where prosperity serves as a counter to ideological extremism.<sup>6</sup> By prioritizing free-market principles, upper mobility, and shared economic gains over radical narratives—often rooted in anti-capitalist or Marxist-aligned ideologies—the Gaza redevelopment seeks to erode support for groups like Hamas, whose governance has historically perpetuated poverty, suppressed development, and fueled violence, as evidenced by events such as the October 7, 2023, attacks.<sup>7</sup>

Broader regional dynamics include evolving access arrangements at the Temple Mount (known as Haram al-Sharif to Muslims), the site of the ancient Jewish First and Second Temples and currently home to the Al-Aqsa Mosque and Dome of the Rock. Under the post-1967 status quo, administered by the Jordanian Waqf with Israeli security oversight, Jewish prayer has traditionally been restricted to avoid escalation, with observant Jews often confined to the Western Wall plaza below.<sup>8</sup> Developments in 2025 and early 2026 saw incremental shifts, including high-profile visits and permitted prayers by figures such as National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, sometimes involving prostration or open recitation, amid political backing from elements within Israel’s government.<sup>9</sup> These changes have sparked debate over the erosion of longstanding arrangements, with reports of relaxed enforcement on items like prayer pages and increased Jewish visitor numbers, though no formal policy has sanctioned widespread rebuilding of a Third Temple.<sup>10</sup>  But it is looming over the area as a momentum shift that is gaining a lot of traction.

Related preparations among some Orthodox Jewish groups include efforts to ready ritual elements for potential Temple service, such as the importation of red heifers from Texas for purification ashes as described in Numbers 19. Five such heifers arrived in Israel around 2022–2023, with symbolic ceremonies and practice runs conducted in 2025, though reports indicate disqualifications due to blemishes or other issues, preventing full ritual use as of early 2026.<sup>11</sup> The site’s historical significance—linked to King David’s threshing floor purchase, Solomon’s Temple construction, and Abraham’s near-sacrifice of Isaac on Mount Moriah—continues to drive archaeological interest in adjacent areas like the City of David, where excavations reveal layers of biblical-era evidence despite longstanding access limitations.<sup>12</sup>

Critics of the Gaza plan have highlighted its top-down structure, limited direct Palestinian input, potential displacement risks, and contrasts with the territory’s current realities: extensive rubble (estimated at 60 million tonnes), humanitarian challenges, and destroyed infrastructure.<sup>13</sup> Some analyses view the proposal as overly speculative or aligned with external interests, raising questions about historic site preservation and community consultation.<sup>14</sup> Nonetheless, the overarching theme aligns with a pragmatic strategy: leveraging capitalist competition, enterprise zones, and economic opportunity to supplant suppression and radicalism with stability and prosperity. If implemented successfully—contingent on security, funding, and multilateral cooperation—this could reshape Gaza into a regional hub, diminish proxy influences (including from Iran), and facilitate deeper historical and scientific inquiry across contested areas like Jerusalem.

The plan’s ambition reflects a belief that peace through shared economic success may prove more durable than prolonged conflict, potentially benefiting residents across divides by prioritizing mobility, employment, and development over ideological division.<sup>15</sup>  Personally, I’m ready to book a ticket to visit.

Bibliography

•  Al Jazeera, “Map shows what would happen to Gaza under the US ‘master plan’,” January 27, 2026.

•  ABC News, “Jared Kushner lays out Trump-backed ‘master plan’ for post-war Gaza,” January 23, 2026.

•  The New York Times, “U.S. Lays Out a Glittering Plan for Gaza, Including Skyscrapers,” January 22, 2026.

•  BBC, “US unveils plans for development of ‘New Gaza’ with skyscrapers,” January 22, 2026.

•  Jerusalem Post, “Jared Kushner unveils $25 billion plan to transform Gaza into economic hub by 2035.”

•  Times of Israel, various articles on Temple Mount access changes, 2025–2026.

•  Wikipedia, “Abraham Accords” (accessed with updates to 2026).

•  Charisma Magazine, articles on red heifer developments, 2025.

Footnotes

1.  Al Jazeera, “‘Imperial’ agenda: What’s Trump’s Gaza development plan, unveiled in Davos?” January 23, 2026.

2.  ABC News, “Jared Kushner lays out Trump-backed ‘master plan’ for post-war Gaza,” January 23, 2026.

3.  The National, “New Gaza, new Rafah and a ‘free market economy’: Inside Kushner’s $30bn reconstruction plan,” January 22, 2026.

4.  NBC News, “Jared Kushner’s vision for Gaza as a gleaming port city clashes with reality,” January 26, 2026.

5.  Wikipedia, “Abraham Accords,” updated January 2026 entries.

6.  Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, “The Abraham Accords After Gaza: A Change of Context,” April 2025 (contextual extension to 2026 impacts).

7.  Breitbart, “‘Catastrophic Success’: Kushner Unveils ‘New Gaza’ Plan at Davos,” January 24, 2026.

8.  Jerusalem Story, “Experts Warn: Israel Is Changing the Long-Standing Status Quo at al-Aqsa Mosque,” 2025.

9.  Times of Israel, “Ben Gvir says Jewish prayer, including full prostration, permitted at Temple Mount,” May 26, 2025.

10.  Jerusalem Post, “Temple Mount to relax restrictions for Jewish prayer,” November 2025.

11.  Charisma Magazine, “Red Heifer Update: The Truth Behind Israel’s Recent Ceremony,” August 14, 2025.

12.  Historical context from biblical archaeology sources, cross-referenced with Temple Mount entry restrictions (Wikipedia).

13.  The New York Times, “U.S. Lays Out a Glittering Plan for Gaza,” January 22, 2026.

14.  Al Jazeera, “Map shows what would happen to Gaza under the US ‘master plan’,” January 27, 2026.

15.  Jerusalem Post and Guardian coverage on Board of Peace and redevelopment optimism, January 2026.

Rich Hoffman

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There Will Never Be Peace with Hamas: Releasing hostages that should have never been captured in the first place

After Trump posted support for Douglas Murray’s book, On Democracies and Death Cults: Israel and the Future of Civilization, I bought it quickly and read it because I wanted to know what Trump’s position on these hostage negotiations was with Hamas.  There are 48 total, with only 20 still alive, but none of them are in good shape.  Trump was wise to point to that particular book as an example of his policy on the issue, because it can be confusing.  But here’s the thing: it’s nice to do everything you can to save those poor people who have been hostages to Hamas.  And to return those bodies to their families.  But the solution is a deep one that I think will require much worse than Israel wants to do to all these Palestinian neighbors.  There is no way to achieve peace, and a two-state solution will never be realized.  One side will have to eliminate the other, and that will be the end of it.  That is the only way at this point.  The foundations of the religions at play are meant to provoke each other into conflict, and this is serving a greater evil that is far at work beyond normal sentiment.  There is a real lust for the death of the people involved that looms in the background.  And just for the record, when people ask me about AI and if I use it.  The answer is no, there is no AI program in the world, and I don’t think there ever will be, that can write the way I do.  It can attempt to copy my style, but it can’t think in the way I approach writing my articles.  AI could not write this article from scratch because it would require it to exceed human capacity to do so. To answer the question, no, I don’t use AI.  I do it the old-fashioned way because that’s the only way it works. 

I say all that because I think there is only one solution, especially after you read Murray’s book.  I’m not particularly impressed with Murray as a person; he is way too progressive for me and way too accepting of drug use.  There was a lot of drug use going on at that Nova dance party in southern Israel when Hamas ruthlessly attacked them over their Gaza Strip war.  Gaza is one of those positions where Israel tried to play nice and let the Palestinians live in some co-existence.  However, the terrorist mindset in the region simply cannot and won’t do it.  And they never will.  The minds at play are poisoned with hate, and we have to deal with that before we do anything, which is a radical leftist issue that is global.  It plays out beyond the façade of religion in the Middle East, as a validation between indigenous people and their territorial captors, as is the issue over the creation of Israel to begin with.  The primary assumption is that the Jewish people should not exist.  And the creation of Western Civilization behind biblical history should never have happened.  I know a lot more about this issue because I am very interested in the archaeology of the region and the politics on dig sites. At the most fundamental level, the situation is irreparable.  Islam is determined never to admit that there was ever a First Temple period, and they work really hard to make sure that science can never find anything from that period, which predates Islam by almost 2000 years.  There is a significant amount of historical revisionism occurring to validate their current political stance, which is unacceptable. 

Israel itself is way too progressive; the drug use at that festival was not appropriate for the young people who were slaughtered for no reason.  And the way Bibi Netanyahu has been untrustworthy as a leader of Israeli politics, claiming power, reveals how fractured the government really is at the highest levels.  The solution to it all is a much more conservative government and people far less inclined to liberal ideas.  The raids into border towns like Nir Oz, which had Hamas raiders going door to door and ripping out people from their homes and killing them ruthlessly, would not have happened if Israel had more guns in the hands of private citizens.  To answer the question about why such a thing as this doesn’t happen in the United States, it is because of the mass gun ownership that we have.  The same terrorists, using different masks, attack, and they kill ruthlessly and often.  Consider the recent situation involving Charlie Kirk.  It’s the same kind of leftist evil that is corrupting so many young people; there isn’t much difference between Charlie Kirk’s killer and the young people of Hamas who ruthlessly killed so many at the music festival and raided the homes of innocent people at Nir Oz.  But the incident cannot be widespread in America because every home is so well armed with personal firearms.  Terrorist elements would love to go door to door, raping and killing people in the suburbs of America.  However, they can’t because people can retaliate if the government fails them.  And in Israel, the government failed the people.  They should have known an attack was coming.  It took them too long to respond.  And it all could have been solved with wider gun ownership.  So Israel and its way-too-democratic government are too liberal to start with, which has caused them many of the problems they do have.  Without the United States, Israel would not exist, and everyone knows it.

The solution to the problem is not at the level of government.  The United States can’t get drawn into fighting Israel’s battles for it.  If we are going to say Israel should exist because God wants it to and we want to serve God, then let’s get serious.  Send in private contractors to wipe out Hamas wherever they are, pay them $100k per head, and hunt them down like dogs.  The solution to the violence is a lot more violence by private citizens.  I would volunteer for that.  I’d be happy to go and be a private contractor by going door to door where Hamas lives in Gaza, and other places, and just getting rid of them.  Forget about the armies, those are too structured.  Just take the violence to the enemy with profit-minded contractors, and beat the political left with their own game of terror, and stop playing nice.  I think it’s commendable that Trump is trying to secure the release of those hostages.  It’s a reasonable effort to try to make peace.  But, to really solve the problem, Hamas has to be hunted down and destroyed where they sleep.  That is the only way.  All the Hezbollah activity in the region, and the funding support that comes from Qatar and Iran, are just too deep.  When books like Mein Kampf and The Protocols of the Elders of Zion are as popularly sold in book stores in that region as they are, there is a much deeper evil at work for any logical negotiations.  And that evil wants the blood of humans for its personal consumption.  The only way to deal with it is to flood it with the blood of its own supporters.  Not the innocent.  And that is the only way.  I’m happy Trump is willing to try.  But the only solution is a lot of blood from the bad guys.  And the best definition of good in all human history has been defined by the Holy Bible.  And that’s the foundation of the entire fight.  You can’t make peace with that evil.  It has to be destroyed, and nothing else.

Rich Hoffman

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