January 22, 2026
"And this is for the people of Gaza. We've developed it into zones. In the beginning, we were toying with the idea of saying, let's build a free zone and then we have a Hamas zone."
"And then we said, you know what, let's just plan for catastrophic success. Hamas signed a deal to demilitarize — that is what we are going to enforce. Rafah we'll start with. This will show a lot of workforce housing. We think this could be done in two-three years. We've already started removing the rubble and doing some of the demolition. And then new Gaza. It could be a hope. It could be a destination. Have a lot of industry from the private sector. There'll be amazing investment opportunities. I know it's a little risky to be investing in a place like this, but we need you to come, take faith, invest in the people, try to be a part of it."
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Talk about nepotism!
Islamic male dominated Jew hating death cult are not going to ever stop. so - good luck.
Just like a committee on women's safety run by Andrew Tate.
Success is obviously not assured, but these people are trying.
Catastrophic success!
Islamic male supremacists do not give up easy. they will kill their mothers and step on their wives and children to keeeeeel you.
Leftists are cool with it.
"Talk about nepotism!"
Right, cuz this is obviously the best investment opportunity he could find.
"Catastrophic success" -- great thought for this situation. Love it.
Gee, I wonder if terrorists will uphold their end of the deal.
Surely we can trust terrorists.
Democrats in US will ankle bite, and continue to ignore billions in fraud given to Islamic Somalis in MN. Islamic Supremacist Somalis who have taken over much of the twin cites.
"There'll be amazing investment opportunities."
There are no "amazing" investment opportunities in the sand lands. There is nothing you can build there that won't soon be destroyed, frequently within one human lifetime. It is where logic and progress goes to die.
Original Mike said, "Success is obviously not assured, but these people are trying."
"The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting a different result." - Einstein
The field Marshal is correct, grotesque nepotism at its finest level. A crooked little man from a crooked family marries into a vast empire of power, wealth, and investment opportunities.
A crooked little man from a crooked family who married into an even bigger and more crookeder family who would would bail out criminal Kushner from his underwater 666 Park avenue project blackmailing, Qatar. And at the same time selling f-35s to Saudi Arabia in order to get a massive multi-billion dollar bailout.
All that is true. However, I do wish the little ferret well. I sure hope his plan is wildly successful like no one has ever seen. I seriously doubt it will be successful but it's inhumane hope that he fails.
The “Free Palestine” mob ain’t gonna like that! Gaza right now may be a less risky place to invest than in than NYC.
When it comes to crooks - no one tops the Biden family.
At least the Trump family make their money without stealing it from TAX payers.
Dead Hamas and a thriving Palestine co-existing with Israel would be astonishing.
Leftists hate the idea. NO fair! they scream.
"thriving Palestine"
Lol. Thanks for the chuckle.
Freder Frederson said...Talk about nepotism!
Sure, because Kushner doesn't have a record of success in hammering out hard deals in this part of the world and there are so many better people for the job and they are all clamoring to get it.
It's like, every time you log in to Althouse, you ask yourself, "what can I say today that is dumber than the dumbest thing I said yesterday?"
One day you won't be able to top yourself. But today is not that day.
""The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting a different result." - Einstein"
IDK if Einstein actually said that, but I have always found that quote wanting. It's not insanity, it's stupidity.
Howard said...
The field Marshal is correct, grotesque nepotism at its finest level. A crooked little man from a crooked family marries into a vast empire of power, wealth, and investment opportunities.
I am not a fan of Kushner.
Curious what you will think if Gaza actually turns into a halfway decent place.
It would mean that the nepo baby succeeded where the UN, Britain, and basically everyone else who tried failed.
I personally find it hilarious that people who think the WEF, EU, UN are legitimate institutions complain about someone like Kushner being put in charge of this.
People aren't angry about the Nepotism.
They are afraid this might succeed.
Original Mike said...IDK if Einstein actually said that, but I have always found that quote wanting. It's not insanity, it's stupidity.
Where does that leave you when not trying isn't an option?
Ride space MNT - that's why I added the "would be astonishing"
I nominate The Hague as the headquarters of this new Peace Board -- and mandatory in-person representation by all the representatives in the articles of association.
Build a Target. Let Hamas have sit-ins. It's the Minnesota way.
tim maguire said...
Freder Frederson said...Talk about nepotism!
Sure, because Kushner doesn't have a record of success in hammering out hard deals in this part of the world and there are so many better people for the job and they are all clamoring to get it.
If there was an open job req and you were taking applications I am curious who the people crying nepotism would think is more qualified than the person who engineered the Abraham Accords.
Put Bob Iger on the Peace Council. Have him build Disneyland Middle East in Gaza.
If Hamas destroys Disneyland, the world will never forgive them.
@Kevin, just look at all the locations for possible Quality Learing Centers in this redevelopment plan! Gazans gonna be hella smurt!
Boy that bolded phrase is something else. Don't think I would have let "catastrophic success" out of the brainstorming session. Yikes.
I have written it before and I will do so again but the problem with Gaza is that it is filled with Gazans- that hasn't changed and won't change in the next quarter century. This plan, at least, has the advantage of not having been tried before but I don't expect it to work.
Freder Frederson said...Talk about nepotism!
Right, because every other Middle East envoy -- and there have been a lot of them -- has done such a spectacular job of bringing peace.
You HAVE to "talk about nepotism" because otherwise you'd have to talk about his accomplishments.
Kakistocracy said...
I nominate The Hague as the headquarters of this new Peace Board -- and mandatory in-person representation by all the representatives in the articles of association.
These people require failure.
If Gazans are peaceful and have housing and food and start to become prosperous it will be the worst thing in the world for pieces of shit like this.
They are pure evil spending their entire lives trying to spread poverty and dependency.
Importing Somalians and helping them set up a fraud network in Minneapolis is the pattern these people follow. They use people as tools and create conditions where the population is easily controlled by violence and corruption.
"Where does that leave you when not trying isn't an option?"
You try something else.
I have written it before and I will do so again but the problem with Gaza is that it is filled with Gazans
Perhaps as part of a fresh start they should rename themselves. Gazinians? Gazois? Gaziweenians? Something to set themselves apart from the past.
Yancey Ward said...
I have written it before and I will do so again but the problem with Gaza is that it is filled with Gazans- that hasn't changed and won't change in the next quarter century. This plan, at least, has the advantage of not having been tried before but I don't expect it to work.
You can make people in the Middle East productive. They just require hard hand leadership.
The problem wasn't the Gazans. It was letting Gazans rule themselves.
Perhaps someone, I can't, can come up with an example of catastrophic success.
Perhaps someone, I can't, can come up with an example of catastrophic success.
I would say, for the Progressives, it would be Trump and Kushner bringing peace to the Middle East.
"Where does that leave you when not trying isn't an option?"
"You try something else."
It's the Middle East. Stop trying.
They say that first you have to hit rock bottom. At least Gaza has that box checked.
Gazans would make good Democrats. They love failure and corrupt leadership. I'd suggest we send them our top Democrats to help. The very people who obviously care the most. The ones with experience in urban disaster zones.
I had a depression-era quote from FDR on the wall of the lab:
"Do something. If it works, do it some more. If it doesn't work, do something else."
"Invest in the people". There's the rub.
The rest of his speech was outstanding for taking an entirely new tack in the region. It's the same general path used by UAE and Qatar to reach a more stabile state. Let's pray for success.
Original Mike said..."Where does that leave you when not trying isn't an option?"
You try something else.
Something other than trying to make Gaza better?
No, thank you.
Excellent Kevin. Trump himself could be described that way, by an honest leftist, should you happen upon one under 4-leaf clover.
Let's go a step higher in the concept. Can anyone define "catastrophic success" at all? My best first reaction: a plan which fails at the intended goal spectacularly (thus a catastrophe) but results in an outcome equal to or better than the one intended.
Anyone got an historical example that would fit that form?
Speaking of corruption and failure - The corrupt Virginia Democrats are making it illegal to clean up the states voter rolls.
This is total corruption.
"I have written it before and I will do so again but the problem with Gaza is that it is filled with Gazans"
Yes. I doubt that will change in my lifetime. I will certainly be dead before anything good happens in Gaza.
"Something other than trying to make Gaza better?"
I'm not following. Not that it matters.
Shouldn't Arabs in the region be doing this work?
Oh, that's right. They hate the Palestinians.
It'll be grift from top to bottom and side to side.
That's a given in the neighborhood, but it just might work if given enough centuries.
Per bagoh20's suggestion, I nominate Tim Walz to serve as Colonial Governor of New Gaza.
I want to join the Board of Peace. I am looking for approximately $1billion to help me achieve my life's goal. Also, some money for a couple good suits. Any donation is appreciated.
"Oh, that's right. They hate the Palestinians."
Isn't muslim brotherhoodly love just beautiful? What a wonderful culture, we should interact with them as much as possible...
Achilles is correct. A trillion dollars will vanish like morning mist in Gaza, and when the mist clears, it will still be Hamas-ville, only worse. The Marshall Plan worked for post-Nazi Germany because Germany was full of Germans. (Now that there are fewer Germans, Germany faces an ever-hastening decline instead of the phenomenal growth we've come to expect.) However, the "Kushner Plan" is doomed because Gaza is full of Palestinians, habitual freeloaders and malcontents who've made themselves pariahs throughout the Middle East.
The abject greed of these Jews is what will lead to their downfall.
Negotiating with the very people who raped and murdered your citizens. Have these Jews no shame?
Why would Jews want to make Gaza anything other than a symbol for all the world to see of what happens to terrorists?
No, all they can see are the sheckles. God really has cursed this tribe.
The problem wasn't the Gazans. It was letting Gazans rule themselves.
Some would say the same thiing about women voting and holding public office.
"Why would Jews want to make Gaza anything other than a symbol for all the world to see of what happens to terrorists?"
The answer is patently obvious to all non-anti-Semites, Former Law Clerk Current Wehraboo.
“ thriving Palestine”
Weirdly, the Pali diaspora thrives pretty well. They often replace the Jews who were booted from Arab countries, filling the professions, academia, business, etc. And Pali-Americans do pretty well. Of course, these are self-motivated, small groups of migrants, not mass displacements of refugees.
Maybe the proper analogy is Chinese rather than Jews. CC, JSM
I don't approve of the term "catastrophic success". Thank you for your attention to this matter.
We need to teach the Palestinians how to play baseball.
What are you smoking Howard?
The Son-In-Law
NKP said...
The problem wasn't the Gazans. It was letting Gazans rule themselves.
Some would say the same thiing about women voting and holding public office.
Only people who care about results of actions and the good of society say awful things like that.
john said...
I want to join the Board of Peace. I am looking for approximately $1billion to help me achieve my life's goal. Also, some money for a couple good suits. Any donation is appreciated.
Do you think the Abraham Accords were an accomplishment?
bagoh20 said...
Shouldn't Arabs in the region be doing this work?
Oh, that's right. They hate the Palestinians.
That is what will make it work.
The Egyptians have killed a similar number of Palestinians as the Jews.
Jordan has killed millions of Palestinians.
Keeping Palestinians in line and killing Marxist agitators will be a necessary function of the board of peace.
Achilles said...
People aren't angry about the Nepotism.
They are afraid this might succeed.
1/22/26, 9:03 AM
Nepotism is generally bad, ethnic and otherwise. But this is your reminder that Jared Kushner was instrumental in building the Abraham Accords, and that he enjoys the full confidence of the Trump Administration and KSA. If FJB had accomplished half as much for peace, or been able to shake the Jewish lobby at all, HeelsUp might be President today.
SpaceX has a history of catastrophic successes. The trick is quick turn around times.
Do you think maybe they could get some Haitians to move there, and help out with the jobs Gazans won't do? Or some Somalis ...
"Somaliland" has actually offered to take palestinians...who will promptly ruin "somaliland".
Win win.
Its like Israel and the USA are the same. And Jared is Co-President along with Bibi and Trump. Its good to be the son-in-law.
Strange that we can't have control over who comes into the USA, and once they get here its impossible to make them leave. But with israel its different. The only permitted ethno-state in the world and no separation of church and state. And they don't have to follow international law either. Ein Reich, Ein Volk, Ein Leader.
BTW in 2017, two thousand rabbis signed a letter from the Hebrew Immigration Society saying unlimited USA immigration and Refugees were the greatest good or something.
BTW, BTW, Elon Musk recently posted a talk show clip with a Rabbi in Europe who said Western Countries will just have to be multi-cultural and multi-racial. Cant stop massive invasion from the 3rd world, that would be immoral. LOL.
Subtard fisking in progress:
Strange that we can't have control over who comes into the USA, and once they get here its impossible to make them leave.
Not strange at all. It was democrat policy. Of a piece with their Cloward-Piven strategy for collapsing our welfare state.
But with israel its different. The only permitted ethno-state in the world...
1. "Permitted?" What are you the self-appointed cultural czar for the globe? There is no international order than can permit or restrict a state from choosing who can enter or stay.
...and no separation of church and state.
That's not even a law here, doofus. But you are 100% wrong about it being a theocracy, as the only operable theocracies in this world are islamic. Israel has secular law, like we do. I'm not surprised that you are completely ignorant about the only Western style democracy in the region. You do advertise your mental limits generously.
And they don't have to follow international law either.
No one does dumbass. It's not real.
Ein Reich, Ein Volk, Ein Leader.
You nazis all talk that way. What a surprise!
Not happening. “Palestinian” nits are indoctrinated in UN schools to grow up to be Jew-hating lice.
’We need to teach the Palestinians how to play baseball.’
That’s as good a plan as any I’ve heard. Cheaper, too.
The ball leather shall they eat. The mitts fashioned into clothing. The bats improvised as weapons. Landmines formed from bases, and umpires used as human shields.
Stones and baseballs have different trajectories
RCOcean (10:58): “The only permitted ethno-state in the world and no separation of church and state.” “Permitted” by whom? And after the Jews were expelled from Muslim/Arab states upon the emergence of Israel, were they “ethno-states?” And “separation of church and state?” Israel is one of the most secular nations in the world. Muslim countries are theocracies. You’re okay with those, right? Your antisemitism is like TDS. It’s eating your brain.
Hombre - indeed.
The people who are all on Hsmas want to dismantle this country
"Somaliland" has actually offered to take palestinians...who will promptly ruin "somaliland".
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It's already ruined.
Amazing how if you talk about the USA you get no response. But if you talk about Israel - they can't write enough.
To fix Gaza you need to use modern tactics, give all the Palestinian lesbians SUVs and whistles, along with an I phone to hold in front of yourself.
@PrimoStL, "Challenge accepted." - Gazans
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“Its like Israel and the USA are the same. And Jared is Co-President along with Bibi and Trump. It’s good to be the son-in-law.”
Well then, Trump has a lot of co-Presidents, with those two at the bottom of the list. Bibi even further down the list. Yes, Trump likes Israel. So do many of us. Religiously, geopolitically, and just their amazing ability to get things done.
When I was still working, as a patent attorney, we had development centers around the world: UK, Germany, Russia, Beijing, Hong Kong, and a couple more. Russia was interesting, because they are theoretically best in the world. They would throw a new equation over the wall, and go on to the next problem. Not patentable. I had to get them to find a use for it.
The other development centers around that stood out was the Israeli one. If anyone in the Semiconductor Sector of the company needed a product out, yesterday, the Israelis got it, and delivered. Quick, dirty, and effective. But the thing that they skimped on was the documentation. I needed a viable patent disclosure, on how they did it. Which was like pulling teeth. Which was very much how I was as a software engineer. The solution was obvious, if you know very many Jews - money. We rewarded inventors better than most of our peers. So, I would just remind them of their bonuses when we filed, when a patent issued, when 10 patents issued, etc. and I couldn’t file until I got a viable patent disclosure. Worked every time.
Wonder why we send the Israelis a lot of tech? Because they perfect it, often in combat, far faster than our Defense-Industrial complex can, on its own.
Don't tell me they're terrorists and then build a hotel-resort with them as your business partners.
I won't shed a single tear for the next Jew concert that gets interrupted for a HAMAS rape fest.
Oh ye of little faith.
"And after the Jews were expelled from Muslim/Arab states upon the emergence of Israel, were they “ethno-states?”
The Jews were not expelled from Muslim/Arab states upon the emergence of Israel. In fact, the Israelis conducted a campaign of false-flag terror attacks against Jews in Arab states, to try to get them to move to Israel.
This is one of the most successful Davos -- ever! A White House communications coup! Did they ever imagine the reach they would have! Going full spectrum in the snow!
Four days of close coverage of the luminaries of Trump world with lots of close coverage of the Great One himself --- there's no hiding the significance of it all. The world got to see this generation's American greatness on full display. This is True Believing at its best.
And Jared Kuchner's marketing pitch for the $30 billion New Gaza development plan left me speechless, gasping at the enormity of it all. Undoubtedly a major turning point in Middle East history is coming up. One wonders if the people in Saudi, the Gulf States, and Jerusalem fully realize just who they are partnered with. The Times they will be a changing!
And Howard Lutnick's opening kickoff speech was Washington
courtier fawning on full display revealing how today's Washington game is played. All those Serious European People didn't get it. And for bonus points, he got Miss Composure herself, Christine Lagarde, to walk out. That'll play in the bingo parlors of the Heartland.
Larry Fink got what he asked for. Not sure this is what he wanted!
“We've already started removing the rubble and doing some of the demolition. And then new Gaza. It could be a hope. It could be a destination. Have a lot of industry from the private sector.”
Hee. Well, the Israelis have given them a head start on the demolition. As for industry, do casinos count? “Come to Gaza, where you bet your money and your life!”
“ But this is your reminder that Jared Kushner was instrumental in building the Abraham Accords, and that he enjoys the full confidence of the Trump Administration and KSA.”
Don’t know why that is, but Kushner is on excellent terms with the rulers of the KSA. If he can get them onboard, the deal is mostly done. They control so much of the money, directly or indirectly. And I think that Wahabi Muslims maybe hate the Shi’a Iranians more than anyone else. They speak the same language on effigies, graven images, human depictions, and polytheism. And the Arabs of that area have a shared history with the Jews going back 1400 or so years, and you can see the Jewish roots of Islam in the Quran.
I am not sure why people are defending Israel so vehemently.
If Israel handled their business competently they wouldn’t need AIPAC to buy congress.
It is pretty obvious that everyone in the region has behaved badly and that Israel is not behaving well. They have clearly been lying about their goals since Netanyahu has been in office.
I am all for subduing Gaza and making it a peaceful productive space where the Palestinians are governed by someone who will keep them under control.
I am not in support of the greater Israel movement and they have clearly been implementing a plan to expand Israel’s borders using USA money and power.
Israel has been behaving badly and needs to be put in its place. They have been maybe slightly better of an ally to the US as Europe has.
Israel is at least useful. That is about all.
But they have been dishonest with us on many occasions. Their attack on people we were negotiating with in the UAE needs to result in public executions.
Bruce Hayden said…
Wonder why we send the Israelis a lot of tech? Because they perfect it, often in combat, far faster than our Defense-Industrial complex can, on its own.
I wouldn’t get all crazy. We are still the core developers of all of these technologies. We get less than the Israel lobby says out of this. We get field testing.
If Israel could stand on its own AIPAC wouldn’t exist.
Don't be so hasty. There's a line to Beijing running through Tel Aviv. Not everything the Chinese have stolen was from US directly...
Good grief qatar has been enabler of terrorist back to 97 at least
"Good grief qatar has been enabler of terrorist back to 97 at least".
Zionist terrorism goes back a lot further than '97.
“Israel is at least useful. That is about all.”
Israel is the only civilized country in that part of the world. As a fan of civilization, I think a greater Israel is a great idea. The greater the greater.
"The Jews were not expelled from Muslim/Arab states upon the emergence of Israel. In fact, the Israelis conducted a campaign of false-flag terror attacks against Jews in Arab states, to try to get them to move to Israel."
Your link goes to a 1954 event. The mass migration of Jews from Syria, Yemen, Iraq, etc. was from 1948-51. You can quibble with the term "expelled," as they were not physically forced out, but as the link shows, they faced great danger and oppression if they stayed.
Maybe the Greenlanders would like to warm up.
"You can quibble with the term "expelled," as they were not physically forced out, but as the link shows, they faced great danger and oppression if they stayed".
Well, OK, I am going to quibble with using the word "expelled" to mean "not expelled". Yeah, I'm pedantic like that. And what my link shows is that they faced Zionist terror attacks if they stayed. Because the Zionists wanted to terrorize them into fleeing to Israel.
There were farhuds from yemen to morocco dont be coy
You know, what I really find amusing about the comment from James K, is that he is so far in the tank for Israel that he thinks the fact that Zionists committed terror attacks against Jews living happily in Egypt reflects poorly on the Egyptians. It's kind of hard for an Arab to get a break from someone like James K. He's seen Exodus. He doesn't need to see -- or hear -- anything else.
Eva Marie Saint wasn't all that hot, but Paul Newman as Ari Ben Canaan! Those piercing blue eyes!
"This land is mine.
God gave this land to me."
James K was sold. Hell, I was sold. And then I read all those other novels by Leon Uris. And I was really sold. Those Israelis were the greatest!
Except. It was all propaganda. And Zionists are really good at propaganda. Almost as good as they are at false flag terror attacks, and assassinations.
Tbe only propaganda is why haj amin husseini never got a searlt at nuremberg and his nephew continued the family business
Perhaps someone, I can't, can come up with an example of catastrophic success.
The atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of World War II—causing that sudden end.
Somaliland, by the way, is not the same thing as Somalia. Somaliland is the former British colony at the northern end of the Horn of Africa—it forms a dogleg west at the north end of the modern “nation” of Somalia—and is marginally better than the latter, meanwhile attempting to secede from it and make its own way in the world. (The rest of Somalia is a former Italian colony.)
Some people's hatred here is breathtaking. The topic is the expansive plans which are being presented offering a vision for Gaza and a path to a peaceful region. And in response we get comments quoting books which are obviously written by anti-semites who frame Israel as a "colonialist settler state" and other insane claims that Israel is an ethno state. So obnoxious and deranged. It's like they hear the word Jew and they go completely psychotic.
I appreciate the people who try to educate these idiots but they can not be educated. They are mentally sick. They remind me of disruptive little children who insist on defying a teacher in a classroom (because the teacher represents something they lack -- knowledge). Shall we blame the teacher for that behavior or expect the teacher to cure them? No, we have to recognize some children have severe emotional problems.
FLC wrote: The abject greed of these Jews is what will lead to their downfall.
Have these Jews no shame?
No, all they can see are the sheckles. God really has cursed this tribe.
There was always something very hinky about FLC pretending to be a conservative.
He is comes across as the vilest of anti-semites, much more so than RCOCEAN.
Have you no shame?
RCOcean: “Amazing how if you talk about the USA you get no response. But if you talk about Israel - they can't write enough.”
Perhaps because your posts about the USA are sometimes rational. About Israel, never.
The non-violent people of Gaza should be thrilled to finally have a chance to live a life of peace and prosperity.
Rosalyn C. said...
"Some people's hatred here is breathtaking."
Yes, some people's hatred here is, indeed, breathtaking.
"It's like they hear the word Jew and they go completely psychotic."
Mmmmm, I'd say it's more like, you write the word "Jew", and they come out of the woodwork. I'm guessing the ADL sends them.
Another foreign entanglement. Wonderful.
If the Board of Peace works out for Gaza and Israel, Jared Kushner should get the Nobel Peace Prize.
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