"The Riviera of the Middle East" / Gaza as real estate
President Trump, February 2025, proposing a US 'takeover' of Gaza and its redevelopment; echoed by officials and investors describing 'waterfront property.'
What it signals
Ethnic cleansing dressed as a development brochure: the 'riviera' requires the removal of the two million people living on the land being admired. The real-estate gaze is the tell — populations don't appear in it.
How to answer
Ask the missing question aloud: 'A riviera for whom? Where do the two million current residents appear in this plan?' The forcible transfer of a protected population is a crime under the Rome Statute regardless of the architecture that replaces it.