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Staff from the Tony Blair Institute (TBI) participated in a post-war Gaza real estate venture aiming to turn the enclave into a for-profit trade zone, according to the Financial Times(FT).

The project envisioned artificial islands, blockchain-based real estate, and what was branded the “Trump Riviera.”

 

Tony Blair Institute linked to Israeli scheme to ethnically cleanse Gaza

Leaked documents revealed the involvement of TBI in a plan to expel Palestinians and lure investors to rebuild the enclave

News Desk

 

The plan, titled “The Great Trust,” was led by Israeli businessmen and used financial models developed inside Boston Consulting Group (BCG). It was shared with US President Donald Trump's administration and proposed “paying half a million Palestinians to leave the area and attracting private investors to develop Gaza” – an ethnic cleansing incentive framed as economic relief.

FT confirmed two TBI staff members participated in calls and message threads with the group. 

An internal TBI document titled “Gaza Economic Blueprint” was shared among participants, including proposals for artificial islands, a deep-water port linking Gaza to the India–West Asia–Europe corridor, blockchain trade infrastructure, and low-tax special economic zones.

The document described the war as having “created a once-in-a-century opportunity to rebuild Gaza from first principles … as a secure, modern prosperous society.” 

While it mirrored parts of the Israeli proposal, FT noted it “did not refer to the relocation of Palestinians,” a policy “championed by US President Donald Trump earlier this year.”

TBI initially told FT that it had “no input whatever” in the project, and that the story was “categorically wrong.” But after being presented with evidence of message group participation and the internal TBI document, a spokesperson clarified, “We have never said TBI knew nothing about what this group was working on or that they weren’t on calls in which the group discussed their plans.”

The spokesperson added, “It would be wrong to suggest that we were working with this group to produce their Gaza plan.”

“The Great Trust” proposal placed all public land in Gaza into a trust, with assets to be sold via blockchain tokens. Private landowners could exchange their property for a permanent housing unit. 

The plan projected that 25 percent of Gaza's population would be expelled, reducing reconstruction costs. “$23,000 savings on every Palestinian relocating,” one slide read. This financial engineering of displacement repackaged war crimes as cost-cutting.

Slides featured branding for Tesla, Ikea, and Amazon Web Services “in a cynical attempt to court Gulf capital and US tech firms,” FT said – though none were aware of their inclusion. 

FT reveals TBI’s involvement in an Israeli plan to empty Gaza, sell its land on blockchain, and replace Palestinians with resorts and investors – a scheme BCG disavowed after firing consultants who secretly modeled it.

One source close to the project told FT it was “an economic exploration of the ideas brought by President Trump,” who in February proposed that Gaza be depopulated and turned into “the Riviera of the Middle East,” while another source insisted the effort was to create “a better future for Gaza.”

https://thecradle.co/articles/tony-blair-institute-linked-to-israeli-scheme-to-ethnically-cleanse-gaza

 

 

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         Gus Leonisky

         POLITICAL CARTOONIST SINCE 1951.

concentration camps.....

Israeli Defense Minister Orders Plan To Build Concentration Camp for Gaza’s Civilian Population    Israel Katz says the so-called 'humanitarian city' will be built on the ruins of Rafah

by  | Jul 7, 2025

 

Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz has ordered the IDF to prepare a plan to establish a camp to concentrate the entire civilian population of Gaza on the ruins of the southern Gaza city of Rafah.

According to Haaretz, Katz said that once Palestinian civilians are pushed into what he is calling a “humanitarian city,” they will not be allowed to leave. The idea is to first transfer 600,000 civilians from the al-Mawasi tent camp on the coast in southern Gaza, followed by the rest of the civilian population.

Katz said that if conditions permit, the “city” could be built during a potential 60-day ceasefire, comments that will make Hamas less likely to agree to a temporary truce. The Israeli defense minister also said that during the ceasefire, Israel will maintain control of the “Morag Corridor,” a strip of land between Rafah and Khan Younis.

Katz also suggested the camp can facilitate the government’s ultimate goal of ethnic cleansing, which it refers to as “voluntary migration,” telling reporters that Israel will implement “the emigration plan, which will happen.”

Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has previously said that the goal of Israel’s current military operation, dubbed Gideon’s Chariots, is to create a concentration camp south of the Morag Corridor and pressure the civilians forced into it to leave.

“The Gazan citizens will be concentrated in the south. They will be totally despairing, understanding that there is no hope and nothing to look for in Gaza, and will be looking for relocation to begin a new life in other places,” Smotrich said in May.

Katz’s comments come after Reuters reported that the controversial US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) had proposed to the US government the idea of creating camps it called “Humanitarian Transit Areas” inside Gaza or possibly outside Gaza. 

The GHF plan describes the camps as “large-scale” and “voluntary” places where the Palestinian population could “temporarily reside, deradicalize, re-integrate and prepare to relocate if they wish to do so.” 

Katz said Israel is seeking “international partners” to manage the zone and that four aid distribution sites would be set up inside the camp, suggesting the GHF will be involved in the plan. GHF aid sites are secured by American security contractors, who have been credibly accused of using live ammunition and stun grenades to disperse crowds of hungry Palestinian civilians.

https://news.antiwar.com/2025/07/07/israeli-defense-minister-orders-plan-to-build-concentration-camp-for-gazas-civilian-population/

 

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         Gus Leonisky

         POLITICAL CARTOONIST SINCE 1951.