US current affairs show 60 Minutes interviewed Donald Trump’s Middle East envoy earlier this week, alongside Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner – who runs his family property development business since his father Charles was convicted twenty years ago on eighteen criminal charges including illegal campaign contributions, witness tampering and tax evasion. Kushner Sr was pardoned by Trump in 2020.
Unsurprisingly, the hour-long interview was filled with self-praise, ‘art of the deal’ style nonsense derived directly from Trump, and shameless justification of Israel and of Trump’s actions in West Asia – but one moment stood out, as Witkoff gave away that Kushner and his gaggle of billionaires have had a ‘master plan’ in place for rebuilding Gaza (or more accurately Trump’s and Netanyahu’s diseased vision of it) since before it was destroyed by Israel:
Witkoff says the quiet part out loud
Daniel Lambert, the manager of Irish band Kneecap, who posted the clip to his X, said:
Kushner’s face when he yesterday revealed they planned rebuilding Gaza BEFORE it was destroyed by the IDF. This isn’t a peace deal it’s the seizure of Palestine.
Israel’s genocide in Gaza and flattening of its homes, schools, hospitals, mosques, churches and infrastructure was supposedly ’caused’ by the 7 October 2023 raid by Palestinian resistance groups.
However, the fact that Israel had slaughtered most of the Israelis killed that day was quickly exposed – though still ignored by ‘mainstream’ Western media. Almost as quickly it was known that Israeli atrocity propaganda about beheaded babies and mass rapes was fiction.
It is now a matter of record, though also ignored by western media, that Israel knew the raid was coming and ordered ‘border’ troops kettling the Palestinian people to stand down and allow it before the massive ‘Hannibal’ over-reaction by the occupation military that killed hundreds of Israelis in repeated attacks from early morning until late evening, numbers the IDF has itself described as ‘immense’.
The now-admitted fact that Kushner and his billionaire boys’ club were planning their land grab of flattened Gaza before it was ever flattened adds another damning storey to the edifice of US-Israeli guilt and collusion in genocide and ethnic cleansing.
Featured image via YouTube screenshot/60 Minutes
