11 February 2025
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NEOM
Redevelop as Holiday Resort
Saudi and other arab countries have very large populations of unemployed young people who, even if you offer them a job, are not interested.
The Palestinians are a very smart population cut from the same semite stone as the jews.
America and Israel having bombed the strip to ruins and continue into the West Bank, Southern Lebanon and Syria, have fundamentally disrupted Palestine, leaving it in gaping need of profound transformation.
Why not move the entire population to Neom, which is having tremendous development problems. They'd make a very smart middle and working slave class.
And honour the promise to move them back if they so wish after the strip has been redeveloped as a resort. Ha ha.
The Art of the Deal
From what I gather from Alastair Crooke, this is not how to read Trump's latest blinder.
It is all another example of Trump's shocking "art of the deal'.
He began with retweeting that highly critical assessment from Jeffrey Sachs, humiliating and belittling Netanyahu. He continued the humiliation with that shock announcement Friday, without any prior discussion.
He has said this is what America will do : take ownership of the land and redevelop it as a resort. He knows very well that it's completely impossible without international agreement. UN?... I dont think so.
But he will in effect offer Arab countries the option of
a fair redevelopment (whatever that means) of this uninhabitable building site, in exchange for joining the Abraham Accords.
The Art of the Deal. Very imaginative.
Note from Wiki article
"Despite historically antagonistic relations, Israel is speculated to have a major role in the development of NEOM, with some suggesting that Saudi Arabia could be expressing an interest in Israeli intellectual capability to this end. Israel is suggested to have also reciprocated this. In line with this, Saudi Arabia is said to hope to establish an economic partnership with Israel to promote economic development of Neom. In particular, analysts suggest that Saudi Arabia may be interested in improved economic relations with high-tech industries in Israel required for the technological vision of Neom. According to a report in an Israeli newspaper, there is supposedly evidence of coordination between Arab businessmen and diplomats in Tel Aviv, with companies in Israel said to be ready to secure billions of dollars worth of contracts. The Saudi Arabian government is also supposedly involved in such communications. As such, analysts have suggested Neom as a potential impetus for normalisation between Saudi and Israel."
