U.S. to Spend $60B Turning Gaza into ‘High-Tech Metropolis’

Why would we spend a dime, let alone $60 billion “to take Gaza residents from tents to penthouses”?

by Daniel Greenfield | Dec 22, 2025

Let me repeat what I’ve been saying since Day 1 of these ceasefire proposals.

No one else is going to rebuild Gaza except us. No one else is going to police Gaza except us. If we don’t want to be stuck with any of that, we need to drop the fake ‘ceasefire’ and end our involvement in Gaza. Because what’s waiting for us isn’t just nation building or even nation building on steroids, but nation building on crack.

Beachside luxury resorts. High-speed rail. AI-optimized smart grids. Welcome to “Project Sunrise,” the Trump administration’s pitch to foreign governments and investors to turn Gaza’s rubble into a futuristic coastal destination.

A team led by President Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner and Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff, two top White House aides, developed a draft proposal to convert the bombed-out enclave into a gleaming metropolis. In 32 pages of PowerPoint slides, replete with images of coastal high-rises alongside charts and cost tables, the plan outlines steps to take Gaza residents from tents to penthouses and from poverty to prosperity.

The project, according to the draft, would cost a total of $112.1 billion over 10 years, though the U.S. would commit to being an “anchor” supporting nearly $60 billion in grants and guarantees on debt for “all the contemplated workstreams” in that time period.

These are delusional fantasies completely detached from reality. We can’t make this stuff work in America, let alone in a Middle Eastern hellhole, even if it weren’t run by terrorists and populated by people who have spent generations teaching their children that their highest value is killing and conquering non-Muslims.

And why in the world would we want to?

Why would we spend a dime, let alone $60 billion “to take Gaza residents from tents to penthouses”?

Mind you, Gaza had plenty of penthouses and prosperity before Oct 7. They chose this course of action. Build them more penthouses and they’ll do it again.

The ceasefire is a lie. There’s no ‘international force’ that’s coming to do anything. Turkey. Qatar and whoever will be happy to send money to Hamas to ‘rebuild’ Gaza. Turkey, Egypt and whoever will send troops to protect Hamas. That’s all.

There is no viable post-Hamas plan. There’s empty hype and spreadsheets made by people who hype a product before they have it and think that if they hype enough, they can get the money to follow through, but Gaza isn’t a real estate development or an AI product. The problem isn’t securing enough funds to solve the problem, because the problem isn’t money. It’s the equivalent of raising capital to build a perpetual motion machine. You can raise the capital, but you can never deliver the product.

The answer is to stop doing the same stupid things we’ve been doing since the Clinton administration before we once again get stuck with the bill. Drop the ceasefire. Drop the nation building. Drop trying to fix the unfixable problem of Islamic terrorism.

December 22, 2025 | 6 Comments »

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  1. Sounds like:

    Shimon Peres was a proponent of a visionary but unbuilt plan to construct an artificial island off the coast of Gaza that would feature a seaport, an airport, and industrial zones. This plan was part of his broader “New Middle East” concept to foster economic development and peace in the region, often encapsulated in his phrase, “making Gaza Singapore”.
    Details of the Proposed Island
    Purpose: The island was intended to provide Gaza with an independent, internationally supervised access point for trade and travel, potentially allowing Israel to secede from obligations related to commercial trading while maintaining security control over the coastal siege to prevent arms smuggling. It was also aimed at creating a self-sustaining economy for Palestinians.
    Logistics: The projected budget for the project was estimated at between $5 billion and $10 billion, with a construction timeline of six to 10 years. The proposal suggested international forces could control the island for at least 100 years.
    Status: The “fantasy island” project was discussed at various levels, including with Palestinian Authority officials and other international partners like Turkey, but it never received final government approval or came to fruition.
    Context of Peres’s Vision
    Peres consistently advocated for using economic cooperation and infrastructure development as a means to achieve peace, a concept sometimes referred to as “privatizing the peace process”. His vision was met with both support for its potential to transform Gaza into a prosperous hub and criticism for the significant political, security, and humanitarian challenges that ultimately prevented its implementation.”

    AI Overview

    It’s the Concepzia reformulated.

    • To which a Hamas leader said, “If we wanted to turn Gaza into Singapore, we would have done it ourselves.”

      When will the West get it. It’s not about economics for these people. It’s not about prosperity, human rights, self-determination, etc. These are Western concepts. For them, this is a religious war. That’s it. We retreat, they advance. They advance, we retreat. There really isn’t anything else going on in the real world.

    • Laura, I don’t know if you know this, but I have watched my psyche changing over time, and I am now proud to say that my attitude is now well to the right of Attila the Hun.

      They want to pick a fight with us (starting with our children)? Then we will help send them all to the Hell to which they rightly belong.