George Washington University GWU economics professor Joseph Pelzman wrote detailed proposal for Trump’s team;
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you have to destroy the whole place, restart from scratch
US President Trump’s proposal to relocate Gaza’s Palestinians and then redevelop the Gaza Strip has sent shockwaves worldwide
Rejected by the Arab world and much of the international community, it has been welcomed by Netanyahu as an idea that
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“could change history” “worth listening carefully to” and “the first original idea that has been raised, in years”
For one man in Washington, however the proposal Trump unveiled when hosting Netanyahu at the White House on Tuesday came as no shock: George Washington University GWU Professor Joseph Pelzman
An out-of-the-box Economic Plan for Rebuilding Gaza
An expert in economics and international relations and head of the university’s Center of Excellence for the Economic Study of the Middle East and North Africa (CEESMENA) Pelzman authored the plan and submitted it to Trump’s team as early as July 2024
The details of Pelzman’s plan were first made public by Dr. Kobby Barda, an Israeli historian specializing in American politics and geo-strategy, during a discussion Barda held with Pelzman on the podcast “America, Baby”! in August 2024
Pelzman told Barda
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“I figured, well, why don’t I write sort of an out-of-the-box perspective on how to fix Gaza after the war is finished”
The paper went to the Trump people because they were the ones who initially had an interest in it – not the Biden people
I was asked [by Trump’s team] to think outside the box on “what do we do” after [the war] as nobody was really talking about it
An Economic Plan for Rebuilding Gaza: A BOT Approach
Pelzman’s paper, titled “An Economic Plan for Rebuilding Gaza: A BOT Approach” has since been published in the Global World Journal (Pelzman wrote it up, in July 2024 but it was put online, in October)
