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muriel_volestrangler

(106,355 posts)
Thu Sep 18, 2025, 09:42 AM Sep 2025

Israeli minister touts Gaza 'real estate bonanza', defying international backlash

Israel's far-right finance minister Bezalel Smotrich has said the Gaza Strip could be a "real estate bonanza" and that he is in talks with the US about dividing up the territory after the war - an idea previously condemned internationally.

Speaking at an event in Tel Aviv, he said "a business plan is on President Trump's table".

"We've done the demolition phase... Now we need to build," he said.
...
"We paid a lot of money for this war," said Smotrich. "So we need to divide how we make a percentage on the land marketing later".

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5y59z6rznvo

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Israeli minister touts Gaza 'real estate bonanza', defying international backlash (Original Post) muriel_volestrangler Sep 2025 OP
I know that many Israelis do no share Smotrich's heinous ideas, but all of Israel is now tainted for its genocide. Lonestarblue Sep 2025 #1
It's all about the Benjamins Blues Heron Sep 2025 #2
Monsters. travelingthrulife Sep 2025 #3
Wow, just wow. It's all so blatant now. Biophilic Sep 2025 #4
JFC leftstreet Sep 2025 #5
No "spoils" going to the US get the red out Sep 2025 #6
SICKENING democrank Sep 2025 #7
"We've done the demolition phase... Now we need to build," he said CoopersDad Sep 2025 #8
Complicity malaise Sep 2025 #9
I mean Johnny2X2X Sep 2025 #10
I expect that the killing will Bettie Sep 2025 #12
Disgusting! Shanda! electric_blue68 Sep 2025 #11
There's a word for that: moondust Sep 2025 #13
Weird how those who were Bettie Sep 2025 #14
Evil. Dawson Leery Sep 2025 #15

Lonestarblue

(13,521 posts)
1. I know that many Israelis do no share Smotrich's heinous ideas, but all of Israel is now tainted for its genocide.
Thu Sep 18, 2025, 09:46 AM
Sep 2025

It is a pariah nation totally unchecked and committing atrocious acts every day. And world leaders continue to do nothing as they watch Palestinians being murdered.

Biophilic

(6,598 posts)
4. Wow, just wow. It's all so blatant now.
Thu Sep 18, 2025, 10:45 AM
Sep 2025

Used to be they would hide those thoughts and plans under layers of double talk. Now they don’t even pretend.

Johnny2X2X

(24,310 posts)
10. I mean
Thu Sep 18, 2025, 11:17 AM
Sep 2025

Netanyahu and trump came out and said exactly their plans for Gaza months ago. Every single person living there will be ejected or killed so their rich developer friends can build resorts there.

Gaza will no longer exist, and there is nothing that can be done to change that now, the last chance to save it was last November.

Bettie

(19,783 posts)
14. Weird how those who were
Thu Sep 18, 2025, 02:17 PM
Sep 2025

all-in on the invasion and "cleansing" of Gaza, who tell us constantly that it is NOT a genocide are....not commenting on this kind of thread.

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