The Profits From Taking Gaza
On 26 February 2025, Fox News headlined “Trump posts AI video of Gaza as luxury resort”, which showed clips from a promotional video that Trump had had done to show how he would like Gaza to be after the Gazans are eliminated from there and replaced by a world-class tropical beach-resort on the Mediterranean Sea.
Encyclopedia Britannica has an article “Natural Gas in the Gaza Strip” (updated to 15 May 2025), which says:
Natural gas reserves were discovered about 20 miles (35 km) offshore the Gaza Strip in 2000. The reserves, located within the maritime boundaries allocated to the Palestinian Authority (PA) under the bilateral Oslo Accords between Israeli and Palestinian leaders, were a key discovery for the still nascent Palestinian governing body, which was eager to establish a viable and independent economy. Although the Gaza Marine natural gas field, with an estimated 1.1 trillion cubic feet (32 billion cubic meters) of natural gas, is modest compared with some regional giants, the reserve far exceeds the energy needs of both the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. Its development, which the PA originally licensed to BG Group and CCC Group, offered the PA a path to self-sufficiency in energy and greater economic development through exports. After Royal Dutch Shell PLC purchased BG Group in 2016, the Palestine Investment Fund (PIF), the PA’s sovereign wealth fund, acquired its interest.
The Gaza Marine field remains unexploited because of the difficulty attracting the investment to develop it. The primary limiting factor is the size of the PA’s domestic market: Its energy consumption is too small to offset the cost of developing the field, which is estimated to be at least $800 million and could potentially be much more. Since the Oslo peace process was intended to bring peace and cooperation between the Israelis and the Palestinians, it was initially assumed that Israel would buy natural gas from the PA and add significantly to its return on investment. But the discovery of the natural gas reserves in 2000 coincided with the outbreak of the second intifada (2000–05). The hostility between Israel and the PA derailed the Oslo peace process, and discussions for a contract for natural gas did not get far. After the 2006 elections for the PA led to a unity government with Hamas,
And, so, of course, Israeli and American billionaires will be reluctant to develop it unless Israel will have taken it. Eliminating the Gazans would enormously increase its market-value. But that gas field isn’t the only one that would be affected by Israel’s expansion to include all of the lands that the Jewish and Christian Bibles say God gave to “the Jews”:
Genesis 15:18-21
“On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abraham and said, ‘To your descendants I give this land, from the river of Egypt [the Nile] to the great river, the Euphrates, including the lands of the Kenites, the Kenizzites, the Kadmonites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Rephaim, the Amoriotes, the Caananites, the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.’”
That’s the basis of Israel’s ethnic cleansing of Palestine and parts of Lebanon and Syria; and, furthermore, in Deuteronomy 7:1-2, 7:16, and 20:16-18 (and other passages), ‘God’ demanded Jews to exterminate all of the non-Jewish residents there. Many Jewish, Christian, and some other billionaires, agree with Hitler that the Bible is the “Monumental History of Mankind”; and, so, Israel’s taking those lands is, from the Biblical standpoint, right, and not merely a potentially quite profitable thing to do. It would certainly increase considerably the marketability to investors, of those gas fields, especially because throughout the U.S.-Israel-UK empire, Hamas is demonized (and therefore would, from the Biblical standpoint, be very embarrassing for those investors to be partnering with).
On 28 August 2019, UNCTAD, UN Trade and Development, had issued “The unrealized potential of Palestinian oil and gas reserves”, and reported:
Geologists and resources economists have confirmed that the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt) lies above sizeable
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