‘New Gaza’ Plan by Far-Right Zionist Jared Kushner Decried as ‘Ethnic Extermination’
“Not anchored in law, nor in facts. Just glossy real estate pitch decks dreamt up by Jared Kushner.”
Screengrab of a slide shared by Jared Kushner, US special envoy, on what he billed as the “New Gaza” presented at the Davos summit on January 22, 2025.
(Photo: Screengrab/via Jared Kushner)
Julia Conley
Jan 22, 2026
COMMON DREAMS
The presentation on the future of Gaza given by President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and adviser, Jared Kushner, inyelloe Davos on Thursday, offered what one journalist called “a sanitized, cosmetic image” of an exclave that, due largely to US policy, is actually “a place that needs immediate help and support for people who are on the verge of collapse.”
Kushner presented a four-phase “master plan” illustrated by CGI-generated images of luxury apartments, data centers, and futuristic-looking skyscrapers.
In the “New Rafah,” built over the southern town that the Israel Defense Forces razed last year and forced hundreds of thousands of displaced Palestinians to leave, Trump’s so-called “Board of Peace” plans to build more than 200 education centers and over 180 cultural, religious, and vocational buildings.
The “New Gaza” plan seeks to build 100,000 permanent housing units in all as well as 75 medical facilities. A map presented by Kushner shows yellow “residential areas,” bright pink zones set aside for what Kushner called “coastal tourism,” sections of land dedicated to industrial data centers and “advanced manufacturing,” and green sections for “parks, agriculture, and sports facilities.”
The presentation showed that “the ethnic extermination plan is two-pronged: Kill as many as possible, then gentrify the rest out,” said entrepreneur David Haddad.
Before Israel began its US-backed destruction of Gaza in 2023, which has killed more than 71,000 people, and destroyed more than 90% of housing units, the exclave’s healthcare system included 36 hospitals, fewer than 14 of which were still partially functional as of October, when a “ceasefire” was agreed to and Trump began moving forward with his 20-point “peace plan.”
The presentation Kushner gave Thursday was part of that plan, with four phases of transformation beginning with the opening of the Rafah crossing and moving northward through Khan Younis and Gaza City, with a seaport and airport also being built.
The master plan, said Kushner, is projected to cost $25 billion, and would ultimately result in “peace and prosperity” in Gaza.
“People ask us what our plan B is, we do not have a plan B. We have a plan, we signed an agreement, we are committed to making that agreement work,” Kushner said. “There’s a master plan. We’ll be doing it in phasing. In the Middle East, they build cities like this, in, uh, you know, 2, 3 million people. They build this in three years. And so stuff like this is very doable if we make it happen.”
International lawyer Itay Epshtain said that as with the “'peace to prosperity’ fantasy,” the so-called master plan “won’t come to pass.”
The proposal, he said, is “not anchored in law, nor in facts. Just glossy real estate pitch decks dreamt up by Jared Kushner. Meanwhile, real humanitarian relief, recovery, and peace for Palestinians are sidelined—sacrificed to delusions of grandeur and war profiteering.”
At the “signing ceremony” for the Board of Peace—which includes no Palestinians and has no support from the United States’ major longtime European allies—Trump said he approached the development of Gaza as “a real estate person at heart.”
“It’s all about location, and I said, look at this location on the sea, look at this beautiful piece of property, what it could be for so many people,” Trump said. “It’ll be so, so great. People that are living so poorly are going to be living so well.”
That outlook, said Hani Mahmoud of Al Jazeera, is one that views Gaza as a “future investment project.”
“That’s the problem,” said Mahmoud. “It is not being dealt with as a place where people are being killed and starved, and being pretty much cornered in every way possible by the acts that the Israeli military is conducting on the ground. The danger stems from the fact that Gaza is being discussed as an investment and a planning site, rather than as a place where people are being killed on a daily basis—largely ignoring the displacement, the genocidal acts, the starvation, and the misery.”
Dilly Hussain of the UK-based news outlet 5 Pillars, said Kushner had proudly presented a plan for a “mega city built on the mass graves of Palestinians after a two-year genocide sponsored by the US.”
“Not anchored in law, nor in facts. Just glossy real estate pitch decks dreamt up by Jared Kushner.”
Screengrab of a slide shared by Jared Kushner, US special envoy, on what he billed as the “New Gaza” presented at the Davos summit on January 22, 2025.
(Photo: Screengrab/via Jared Kushner)
Julia Conley
Jan 22, 2026
COMMON DREAMS
The presentation on the future of Gaza given by President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and adviser, Jared Kushner, inyelloe Davos on Thursday, offered what one journalist called “a sanitized, cosmetic image” of an exclave that, due largely to US policy, is actually “a place that needs immediate help and support for people who are on the verge of collapse.”
Kushner presented a four-phase “master plan” illustrated by CGI-generated images of luxury apartments, data centers, and futuristic-looking skyscrapers.
In the “New Rafah,” built over the southern town that the Israel Defense Forces razed last year and forced hundreds of thousands of displaced Palestinians to leave, Trump’s so-called “Board of Peace” plans to build more than 200 education centers and over 180 cultural, religious, and vocational buildings.
The “New Gaza” plan seeks to build 100,000 permanent housing units in all as well as 75 medical facilities. A map presented by Kushner shows yellow “residential areas,” bright pink zones set aside for what Kushner called “coastal tourism,” sections of land dedicated to industrial data centers and “advanced manufacturing,” and green sections for “parks, agriculture, and sports facilities.”
The presentation showed that “the ethnic extermination plan is two-pronged: Kill as many as possible, then gentrify the rest out,” said entrepreneur David Haddad.
Before Israel began its US-backed destruction of Gaza in 2023, which has killed more than 71,000 people, and destroyed more than 90% of housing units, the exclave’s healthcare system included 36 hospitals, fewer than 14 of which were still partially functional as of October, when a “ceasefire” was agreed to and Trump began moving forward with his 20-point “peace plan.”
The presentation Kushner gave Thursday was part of that plan, with four phases of transformation beginning with the opening of the Rafah crossing and moving northward through Khan Younis and Gaza City, with a seaport and airport also being built.
The master plan, said Kushner, is projected to cost $25 billion, and would ultimately result in “peace and prosperity” in Gaza.
“People ask us what our plan B is, we do not have a plan B. We have a plan, we signed an agreement, we are committed to making that agreement work,” Kushner said. “There’s a master plan. We’ll be doing it in phasing. In the Middle East, they build cities like this, in, uh, you know, 2, 3 million people. They build this in three years. And so stuff like this is very doable if we make it happen.”
International lawyer Itay Epshtain said that as with the “'peace to prosperity’ fantasy,” the so-called master plan “won’t come to pass.”
The proposal, he said, is “not anchored in law, nor in facts. Just glossy real estate pitch decks dreamt up by Jared Kushner. Meanwhile, real humanitarian relief, recovery, and peace for Palestinians are sidelined—sacrificed to delusions of grandeur and war profiteering.”
At the “signing ceremony” for the Board of Peace—which includes no Palestinians and has no support from the United States’ major longtime European allies—Trump said he approached the development of Gaza as “a real estate person at heart.”
“It’s all about location, and I said, look at this location on the sea, look at this beautiful piece of property, what it could be for so many people,” Trump said. “It’ll be so, so great. People that are living so poorly are going to be living so well.”
That outlook, said Hani Mahmoud of Al Jazeera, is one that views Gaza as a “future investment project.”
“That’s the problem,” said Mahmoud. “It is not being dealt with as a place where people are being killed and starved, and being pretty much cornered in every way possible by the acts that the Israeli military is conducting on the ground. The danger stems from the fact that Gaza is being discussed as an investment and a planning site, rather than as a place where people are being killed on a daily basis—largely ignoring the displacement, the genocidal acts, the starvation, and the misery.”
Dilly Hussain of the UK-based news outlet 5 Pillars, said Kushner had proudly presented a plan for a “mega city built on the mass graves of Palestinians after a two-year genocide sponsored by the US.”
“No accountability, just business as usual,” said Hussain, “with the chief genocider [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu sitting on the ‘Board of Peace.’”
Every Nation in the World Should Reject Trump’s Absurd and Dangerous ‘Board of Peace’
Refusal to join will be an act of national self-respect. The UN-based international order, however flawed, should be repaired through law and cooperation, not replaced by a gilded caricature.
US businessman Jared Kushner speaks at the “Board of Peace” meeting during the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos on January 22, 2026.
(Photo by Fabrice Coffrini/AFP via Getty Images)
Jeffrey D. Sachs
Refusal to join will be an act of national self-respect. The UN-based international order, however flawed, should be repaired through law and cooperation, not replaced by a gilded caricature.
US businessman Jared Kushner speaks at the “Board of Peace” meeting during the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos on January 22, 2026.
(Photo by Fabrice Coffrini/AFP via Getty Images)
Jeffrey D. Sachs
Sybil Fares
Jan 22, 2026
Sybil Fares
Sybil Fares is a specialist and advisor in Middle East policy and sustainable development at SDSN
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Jan 22, 2026
Common Dreams
The so-called “Board of Peace” being created by President Donald Trump is profoundly degrading to the pursuit of peace and to any nation that would lend it legitimacy. This is a trojan horse to dismantle the United Nations. It should be refused outright by every nation invited to join.
In its Charter, the Board of Peace (BoP) claims to be an “international organization that seeks to promote stability, restore dependable and lawful governance, and secure enduring peace in areas affected or threatened by conflict.” If this sounds familiar, it should, because this is the mandate of the United Nations. Created in the aftermath of World War II, the UN has as its central mission the maintenance of international peace and security.
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It is no secret that Trump holds open contempt for international law and the United Nations. He said so himself during his September 2025 speech at the General Assembly, and has recently withdrawn from 31 UN entities. Following a long tradition of US foreign policy, he has consistently violated international law, including the bombing of seven countries in the past year, none of which were authorized by the Security Council and none of which was undertaken in lawful self-defense under the Charter (Iran, Iraq, Nigeria, Somalia, Syria, Yemen, and Venezuela). He is now claiming Greenland, with brazen and open hostility towards the US allies in Europe.
So, what about this Board of Peace?
It is, to put it simply, a pledge of allegiance to Trump, who seeks the role of world chairman and the world’s ultimate arbiter. The BoP will have as its Executive Board none other than Trump’s political donors, family members, and courtiers. The leaders of nations that sign up will get to rub shoulders with, and take orders from, Marco Rubio, Steve Witkoff, Jared Kushner and Tony Blair. Hedge Fund owner and Republican Party mega-donor Marc Rowan also gets to play. More to the point, any decisions taken by the BoP will be subject to Trump’s approval.
If the charade of representatives isn’t enough, nations will have to pay $1 billion for a “permanent seat” on the Board. Any nation that participates should know what it is “buying.” It is certainly not buying peace or a solution for the Palestinian people (as the money supposedly goes to Gaza’s reconstruction). It is buying ostensible access to Trump for as long as it serves his interests. It is buying an illusion of momentary influence in a system where Trump’s rules are enforced by personal whim.
The proposal is absurd not least because it purports to “solve” a problem that already has an 80-year-old global solution. The United Nations exists precisely to prevent the personalization of war and peace. It was designed after the wreckage of two world wars to global base peace on collective rules and international law. The UN’s authority, rightly, derives from the UN Charter ratified by 193 member states (including the US, as ratified by the US Senate in July 1945) and grounded in international law. If the US doesn’t want to abide by the Charter, the UN General Assembly should suspend the US credentials, as it once did with Apartheid South Africa.
Trump’s “Board of Peace” is a blatant repudiation of the United Nations. Trump has made that explicit, recently declaring that the Board of Peace “might” indeed replace the United Nations. This statement alone should end the conversation for any serious national leader. Participation after such a declaration is a conscious decision to subordinate one’s country to Trump’s personalized global authority. It is to accept, in advance, that peace is no longer governed by the UN Charter, but by Trump.
Still, some nations, desperate to get on the right side of the US, may take the bait. They should remember the wise words of President John F. Kennedy in his inaugural address “ those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside.”
The record shows that loyalty to Trump is never enough to salve his ego. Just look at the long parade of Trump’s former allies, advisers, and appointees who were humiliated, discarded, and attacked by him the moment they ceased to be useful to him.
For any nation, participation on the Board of Peace would be strategically foolish. Joining this body will create long-lasting reputational damage. Long after Trump himself is no longer President, a past association with this travesty will be a mark of poor judgment. It will remain as sad evidence that, at a critical moment, a national political system mistook a vanity project for statesmanship, squandering $1 billion of funds in the process.
Ultimately, refusal to join the “Board of Peace” will be an act of national self-respect. Peace is a global public good. The UN-based international order, however flawed, should be repaired through law and cooperation, not replaced by a gilded caricature. Any nation that values international law, and the respect for the United Nations, should decline immediately to be associated with this travesty of international law.
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Jeffrey D. Sachs
Jeffrey D. Sachs is a University Professor and Director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University, where he directed The Earth Institute from 2002 until 2016. He is also President of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network and a commissioner of the UN Broadband Commission for Development. He has been advisor to three United Nations Secretaries-General, and currently serves as an SDG Advocate under Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. Sachs is the author, most recently, of "A New Foreign Policy: Beyond American Exceptionalism" (2020). Other books include: "Building the New American Economy: Smart, Fair, and Sustainable" (2017) and "The Age of Sustainable Development," (2015) with Ban Ki-moon.
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The so-called “Board of Peace” being created by President Donald Trump is profoundly degrading to the pursuit of peace and to any nation that would lend it legitimacy. This is a trojan horse to dismantle the United Nations. It should be refused outright by every nation invited to join.
In its Charter, the Board of Peace (BoP) claims to be an “international organization that seeks to promote stability, restore dependable and lawful governance, and secure enduring peace in areas affected or threatened by conflict.” If this sounds familiar, it should, because this is the mandate of the United Nations. Created in the aftermath of World War II, the UN has as its central mission the maintenance of international peace and security.
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It is no secret that Trump holds open contempt for international law and the United Nations. He said so himself during his September 2025 speech at the General Assembly, and has recently withdrawn from 31 UN entities. Following a long tradition of US foreign policy, he has consistently violated international law, including the bombing of seven countries in the past year, none of which were authorized by the Security Council and none of which was undertaken in lawful self-defense under the Charter (Iran, Iraq, Nigeria, Somalia, Syria, Yemen, and Venezuela). He is now claiming Greenland, with brazen and open hostility towards the US allies in Europe.
So, what about this Board of Peace?
It is, to put it simply, a pledge of allegiance to Trump, who seeks the role of world chairman and the world’s ultimate arbiter. The BoP will have as its Executive Board none other than Trump’s political donors, family members, and courtiers. The leaders of nations that sign up will get to rub shoulders with, and take orders from, Marco Rubio, Steve Witkoff, Jared Kushner and Tony Blair. Hedge Fund owner and Republican Party mega-donor Marc Rowan also gets to play. More to the point, any decisions taken by the BoP will be subject to Trump’s approval.
If the charade of representatives isn’t enough, nations will have to pay $1 billion for a “permanent seat” on the Board. Any nation that participates should know what it is “buying.” It is certainly not buying peace or a solution for the Palestinian people (as the money supposedly goes to Gaza’s reconstruction). It is buying ostensible access to Trump for as long as it serves his interests. It is buying an illusion of momentary influence in a system where Trump’s rules are enforced by personal whim.
The proposal is absurd not least because it purports to “solve” a problem that already has an 80-year-old global solution. The United Nations exists precisely to prevent the personalization of war and peace. It was designed after the wreckage of two world wars to global base peace on collective rules and international law. The UN’s authority, rightly, derives from the UN Charter ratified by 193 member states (including the US, as ratified by the US Senate in July 1945) and grounded in international law. If the US doesn’t want to abide by the Charter, the UN General Assembly should suspend the US credentials, as it once did with Apartheid South Africa.
Trump’s “Board of Peace” is a blatant repudiation of the United Nations. Trump has made that explicit, recently declaring that the Board of Peace “might” indeed replace the United Nations. This statement alone should end the conversation for any serious national leader. Participation after such a declaration is a conscious decision to subordinate one’s country to Trump’s personalized global authority. It is to accept, in advance, that peace is no longer governed by the UN Charter, but by Trump.
Still, some nations, desperate to get on the right side of the US, may take the bait. They should remember the wise words of President John F. Kennedy in his inaugural address “ those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside.”
The record shows that loyalty to Trump is never enough to salve his ego. Just look at the long parade of Trump’s former allies, advisers, and appointees who were humiliated, discarded, and attacked by him the moment they ceased to be useful to him.
For any nation, participation on the Board of Peace would be strategically foolish. Joining this body will create long-lasting reputational damage. Long after Trump himself is no longer President, a past association with this travesty will be a mark of poor judgment. It will remain as sad evidence that, at a critical moment, a national political system mistook a vanity project for statesmanship, squandering $1 billion of funds in the process.
Ultimately, refusal to join the “Board of Peace” will be an act of national self-respect. Peace is a global public good. The UN-based international order, however flawed, should be repaired through law and cooperation, not replaced by a gilded caricature. Any nation that values international law, and the respect for the United Nations, should decline immediately to be associated with this travesty of international law.
Our work is licensed under Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0). Feel free to republish and share widely.
Jeffrey D. Sachs
Jeffrey D. Sachs is a University Professor and Director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University, where he directed The Earth Institute from 2002 until 2016. He is also President of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network and a commissioner of the UN Broadband Commission for Development. He has been advisor to three United Nations Secretaries-General, and currently serves as an SDG Advocate under Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. Sachs is the author, most recently, of "A New Foreign Policy: Beyond American Exceptionalism" (2020). Other books include: "Building the New American Economy: Smart, Fair, and Sustainable" (2017) and "The Age of Sustainable Development," (2015) with Ban Ki-moon.
Full Bio >
Sybil Fares
Sybil Fares is a specialist and advisor in Middle East policy and sustainable development at SDSN
Full Bio >
Trump's Board of Peace snubbed on world stage: 'How disappointed is the White House?'
Tom Boggioni
January 22, 2026
January 22, 2026
RAW STORY
U.S. President Donald Trump walks after charter announcement for his Board of Peace initiative aimed at resolving global conflicts, alongside the 56th annual World Economic Forum (WEF), in Davos, Switzerland, January 22, 2026. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse
At the same time that Donald Trump was making a big show of signing the initial charter of his so-called “Board of Peace” at Davos, Bulwark editor Sam Stein was quick to observe that the smattering of government leaders who joined him on the dais was lacking in star power.
The much-maligned new organization that the president has been hyping has attracted a collection of countries agreeing to sign up — none of them even remotely close to being considered a world power capable of doing much internationally.
As the American president signed the charter, Stein told the MS NOW “Morning Joe” panel that he’s not sure the White House is too pleased that the world’s major powers are snubbing him.
The Trump administration has raised hopes that at least 35 countries would sign on, but the turnout has been a slim 21 so far, which led Stein to point out, “There is no one from Europe on that stage, or was known from Europe on that stage. It is a list of semi-autocratic countries and Trump allies.”
“How disappointed is the White House that there is no one on the stage? Or are they totally comfortable with the idea that you do not have to have European countries, the likes of which [Treasury Secretary]Scott Bessent called — what did he call Denmark? — irrelevant.”
“Yeah, maybe you don't need relevant countries in there,” the analyst joked.
U.S. President Donald Trump walks after charter announcement for his Board of Peace initiative aimed at resolving global conflicts, alongside the 56th annual World Economic Forum (WEF), in Davos, Switzerland, January 22, 2026. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse
At the same time that Donald Trump was making a big show of signing the initial charter of his so-called “Board of Peace” at Davos, Bulwark editor Sam Stein was quick to observe that the smattering of government leaders who joined him on the dais was lacking in star power.
The much-maligned new organization that the president has been hyping has attracted a collection of countries agreeing to sign up — none of them even remotely close to being considered a world power capable of doing much internationally.
As the American president signed the charter, Stein told the MS NOW “Morning Joe” panel that he’s not sure the White House is too pleased that the world’s major powers are snubbing him.
The Trump administration has raised hopes that at least 35 countries would sign on, but the turnout has been a slim 21 so far, which led Stein to point out, “There is no one from Europe on that stage, or was known from Europe on that stage. It is a list of semi-autocratic countries and Trump allies.”
“How disappointed is the White House that there is no one on the stage? Or are they totally comfortable with the idea that you do not have to have European countries, the likes of which [Treasury Secretary]Scott Bessent called — what did he call Denmark? — irrelevant.”
“Yeah, maybe you don't need relevant countries in there,” the analyst joked.
Robert Davis
January 22, 2026
RAW STORY
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a reception with business leaders, at the 56th annual World Economic Forum (WEF), in Davos, Switzerland, January 21, 2026. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
President Donald Trump's comments about 9/11 during his speech at the World Economic Forum on Wednesday rankled America's allies in Europe, according to a new report.
During the speech, Trump asserted that America's NATO allies stayed "a little off the front lines" in Afghanistan when the coalition joined U.S. forces to combat Al-Qaeda following the 9/11 attacks. Trump also questioned whether NATO would come to the U.S.'s defense again if it were called upon.
Trump's comments called into question NATO's Article 5, which requires member states to mount a collective defense if any of them is attacked. The only time Article 5 has been invoked was following the 9/11 terror attacks in the U.S.
Foreign leaders and dignitaries described Trump's comments as "grossly offensive," Sky News reported.
"I saw first hand the sacrifices made by British soldiers I served alongside in Sangin where we suffered horrific casualties, as did the US Marines the following year," Tory MP Ben Obese-Jecty, who served in Afghanistan as a captain in the Royal Yorkshire Regiment, told Sky News. "I don't believe US military personnel share the view of President Trump; his words do them a disservice as our closest military allies."
"We have always been there whenever the Americans have wanted us, we have always been there," Dame Emily Thornberry MP, chair of the Commons Foreign Affairs Select Committee, told Sky News.
Others chided Trump's comments about the military.
"Trump avoided military service five times," said Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey MP. "How dare he question their sacrifice. [Nigel] Farage and all the others still fawning over Trump should be ashamed."
Read the entire report by clicking here.
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