On January 2, as Israel killed four more Palestinians in Gaza, Jared Kushner delivered a speech that will live in infamy. With the cold confidence of a real estate pitch, he spoke of Gaza not as a place of human suffering, but as “valuable waterfront property” — a seaside opportunity waiting to be developed once the people are removed.
This was not ignorance. It was erasure.
While families bury their dead, while children starve under siege, Kushner reduced genocide to a redevelopment plan. He transformed the barbaric crimes inflicted by Israel, backed and armed by the United States, into a “practical” vision of profit. In doing so, he revealed the moral logic at work: Palestinian lives are an obstacle; their land is an asset.
Such language is not merely offensive — it is dangerous. It normalizes ethnic cleansing by framing it as inevitability. It launders mass death through the vocabulary of markets and resorts. It treats suffering as a temporary inconvenience on the path to luxury.
History will not remember this as strategy or realism. It will remember it as cruelty — calculated, mindless, and obscene. A disgraceful speech for a disgraceful moment, spoken while Gaza burns and the world is asked to look away.
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