Gaza towers massacre: Kushner is the key

By Hassan Asfour
Since the meeting of “the duo” — British political broker Tony Blair and real estate broker Jared Kushner — with U.S. President Trump at the White House on August 27, the genocidal war in the Gaza Strip has shifted into a new form, with the focus now mainly on towers and high-rise buildings.

The rhetorical paradox promoted by the Jewish fascist government for targeting Gaza City’s towers — that they serve as Hamas command centers — while they had not been a central target for 22 months, exposes the lie being used. The reality, however, is entirely different: it is directly linked to the shift from a war of human extermination and the imposition of the largest internal displacement operation of the contemporary era, by land area and population percentage, to a new phase targeting residential structures, especially towers.

In that context, it is useful to recall what Trump’s son-in-law Kushner said in February 2024, a year before the U.S. president’s return to the White House, when he praised the “great potential value” of waterfront real estate in Gaza, suggesting that Israel temporarily move civilians away while it “cleans” the area.

Kushner’s remarks indicate that the “Greater Gaza” plan was prepared long before Trump’s victory, and perhaps before the October 7, 2023 plot, confirming that one of the aims of the aggressive war is to redraw the Strip’s identity in line with a Judaizing objective that erases the sector’s symbolic status — notably the refugee issue — enforces forced displacement, and creates a new separatist entity.

Kushner’s early “vision” of Gaza’s strategic value does not stop at real estate and the coast; it is linked to the economic value of Gaza’s maritime zone and gas fields, which are part of “war objectives” planned before luring Hamas into executing a years-old plan and before its October 2023 operational date.

The coincidence of the tower extermination in Gaza with the occupation army’s declaration of a second war to drive Gaza City residents toward “internal migration” is part of the initial shaping of the post-war day, which now appears very near — especially after the Trump administration decided to end Qatar’s “sacred immunity” after twenty years of a functional relationship with Hamas. The Israeli aggressive strike on Hamas’s headquarters in Doha was a farewell message to Qatar’s special status.

The Blair–Kushner “duo” meeting with Trump is merely a signal toward imposing a “forcible displacement” process on the people of Gaza, some of which already appears to be underway in practice under various forms, some coercive and others presented as “humanitarian.” Its scope will widen in the coming period, especially after entering the second destructive phase in Gaza City, now the main target since it still contains nearly one million residents.

Talk of stopping the Gaza war is no longer the possibility it once was; it has entered the realm of implementation through prior indicators that establish practical facts without encountering real blockage or rejection — beyond rhetorical statements — and without any real plan to prevent or hinder it. This returns attention to the imperative of working out how to deal with the consequences of the old-new plan.

The striking paradox is the Palestinian official disregard for the implications of the Blair–Kushner meeting with Trump at the end of August and the announcement of the “Greater Gaza” project in full detail, including the engineering plans, as if it were unrelated to current military developments. Meanwhile the Arab system persists in talk of rejection and imaginary red lines, without any practical stance or a viable reconstruction plan to absorb and counter the forced-displacement scheme, based on the reality of the Strip and what has occurred over the 706 days of destructive war, beyond stale “humanitarian” sentimentality.

If Arab officialdom confines itself to rejecting the displacement plan, that will not obstruct it; and if the Palestinian authorities ignore the plan, that is an indicator of prior submission. Before the “mother of disasters” follows the “mother of catastrophes,” action must be taken with a practical response, not rhetorical incantations — through a realistic project that does not exclude transitional absorption.

Note: Forty-eight hours have passed since the enemy state’s aggression against sister Qatar — and all that occurred were threats and warnings: “will” and “will not,” visits and assurances, placements and statements. What happened is that instead of Sarah’s husband being cowed by “their thunder and froth,” he came out threatening them again. I fear “the froth of the night” will melt with the sun of day. And let us sing, “the day passed and evening is coming.”

Special note: Some Arabs and their media insist on whitewashing the image of Melania’s husband over the Doha strike. One time they say he tried to warn but, poor thing, he did not make it in time. Another time they claim he screamed “Azouj Sarah” and were told “shame on you, boy.” Another time they say “we don’t know what he said.” Look — you are afraid of him, fine — but stop playing dumb. You are ridiculous. He only has a bag of money and nothing else. Upset? Go to hell — lie down even more.