'Cashing in on Genocide': Israeli Firm Pitches Luxury Beachfront Real Estate In Leveled Gaza

"A house on the beach is not a dream," reads an advertisement from a company notorious for building in the occupied West Bank.

“Just as the Israeli government was crystal clear in its plans to commit genocide, the Israeli government’s post-genocide colonization strategy is explicit and blatant—and a war crime. We can stop this. Don’t look away.”

— Jewish Voice for Peace

By Mark Taylor
DeMOCKracy.ink (12/20/23)

A downside of this oceanfront luxury development would be the possibility of a future oil spill from the offshore Gaza oilfield, which, as I detailed in “DUH! Now We Know Why US & Israel Refuse A Ceasefire In Gaza”, is the reason for the US/Israeli genocide.

But if you want to buy, no worry of pesky oil spills, I'm guessing “Bibi” Netanyahu could make a quick call to his buddy “Genocide Joe” Biden and get the US to rush in and mop up everything and pay everyone for the inconvenience. After all, they will probably be Israeli/American oilfields.

This real estate developer specializes in cashing in on stolen Palestinian land. Dreams built on nightmares. No doubt, they are are headquartered in a luxury office suite in one of the lowest executive crevices of hell.

Once again, the greedy corporate blob reveals this ongoing bloody genocide is not about Hamas or preventing terrorism, or rescuing hostages, or bringing truth, justice or anything other than crushing poor people and cashing in on oil, land and money.

That’s it. That’s all the bloody empire is ever about.

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"An Israeli real estate firm is already cashing in on genocide, churning out blueprints to build Israeli homes in Gaza on land leveled by bombs."

By Brett Wilkins
Common Dreams (12/19/23)

Palestine defenders this week condemned a proposal by an Israeli real estate developer specializing in the construction of illegal settlements to build beachfront homes for Jewish colonists over the bombed-out ruins of Gaza.

"A house on the beach is not a dream," reads an advertisement published by Harey Zahav—an Israeli company notorious for building settlements in the illegally occupied West Bank—that drew international attention following last week's Practical Preparation for Gaza Settlement Conference in Tel Aviv.

The ad depicts an artist's rendering of luxury homes superimposed over an actual photograph of a Gaza neighborhood destroyed by Israeli attacks—which have killed nearly 20,000 people while displacing over 85% of the embattled strip's 2.3 million people since early October.

‘Unique and rare opportunity’

While the Israeli government funds settler organizations, Harey Zahav's proposal is not believed to be state-supported. However, critics noted that Israeli Intelligence Minister Gila Gamliel has drafted a plan to forcibly expel Gazans into Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, and that a separate proposal by the right-wing think tank Misgav Institute for National Security & Zionist Strategy declared that "there is currently a unique and rare opportunity to evacuate the entire Gaza Strip."

Such plans have been compared with the Nakba ethnic cleansing of more than 750,000 Arabs—by deadly violence and forced displacement—from Palestine during the establishment of the modern state of Israel in 1948.

"An Israeli real estate firm is already cashing in on genocide, churning out blueprints to build Israeli homes in Gaza on land leveled by bombs," activist Sarah Wilkinson said Tuesday on social media.

Harey Zahav's proposal comes amid statements by Israeli political and military leaders that critics say incite or advocate genocide of Palestinians. Evem prior to the Hamas-led attacks on October 7, numerous Israeli officials called for the recolonization of a Gaza Strip from which some or all of the Palestinian residents—around two-thirds of them the descendants of Nakba refugees—have been removed.

While Israel withdrew its troops and settlers from Gaza in 2005, the besieged enclave is still considered occupied under international law.

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