The Limits of Pax Judaica

The Greater Israel Project has met its greatest enemy: The human conscience.

The world seemed on the brink. In late September, Netanyahu spoke at the United Nations, and visited the White House. He warned that Iran had nukes capable of striking New York and Miami. American air fuel tankers flew to Qatar, which was what happened right before the onset of the 12-day War.

Then at the eleventh-hour Trump pulled the world back from the precipice. Negotiations in Egypt led to Hamas and Netanyahu’s war cabinet agreeing to a ceasefire.

Next week, Hamas will release the 48 remaining Israeli hostages, and Israel will release over two thousand Palestinians. The IDF will pull back from half of Gaza, and aid trucks can flow unfettered.

This will be the third cease-fire since the war broke out in October 2023. No one thinks that Trump will achieve peace in the Middle East for the first time in three thousand years. There is hope that the senseless slaughter will stop.

Trump wants his Nobel Peace Prize after all. Tony Blair will lead an international team to govern Gaza. Then there is how Jared Kushner has re-surfaced.

Perhaps this was always the plan. International bankers have long salivated at Gaza. It is estimated that there is a rich reservoir of oil and natural gas lurking off the shores of Gaza. The proposed Ben-Gurion Canal – which will challenge the supremacy of the Suez Canal – must run through Gaza. At a talk at his alma mater Harvard, Jared Kushner discussed how Gaza can be valuable waterfront property. Earlier this year, Trump shared an AI-generated video of Gaza as the Riviera of the Middle East.

Now that the IDF has flattened Gaza, Trump and his surrogate Kushner no longer have to worry about eviction, usually the costliest and trickiest part of any real estate deal. The Gulf Arab nations have committed themselves to re-building Gaza. That means building high-rises and printing welfare checks to imprison the Palestinians in a gilded cage, while the waterfront is turned into villas for the world’s wealthiest. War, destruction, and famine have unified and hardened the Palestinians, and now safety, stability, and riches will divide and conquer them.