The Trump Strip: Abomination As Capstone To Atrocity

*While it is true that the future is always built on the rubble of the past, you’re really not supposed to have bombed it yourself.*

I had something else in mind to write this morning, revisiting the suggestion that corporate equity should only be available through labor.

‘Cause it’s Labor Day here in the U.S.

And then I saw the artist rendering in the pitch deck for Trump’s massively immoral development concept for the Gaza Strip this morning and, well.

Skipping past, for the moment, that Trump has no place in any discussion of the future of Gaza.

That is just the most soul-destroying, anodyne, corporate office park view of a future.

It’s like Muzak for the eyes.

Of course the idea is “AI-powered”.

“AI” is an industry built on the massive theft of other people’s property, dependent on bluster and lies about its capabilities and that delivers a soulless slurry of reconstituted slop.

And that promotional image is very clearly “AI”-generated, with roads that just fade away and bridges connecting nothing to nowhere.

It’s almost too on-the-nose, really.

But the abysmal aesthetics and thoughtless artwork of the pitch aside, there’s the whole problem that no one involved in this pitch has any right to be making decisions for Palestine.

Like anywhere else, Palestine belongs to the people who were born and live there; no one else has any moral right to it, not the “Jewish people”, not Israel, not The U.N., not the U.S. and certainly not Trump and his crowd of grifters.

And that has not gone unnoticed:

Almost everyone outside Israel, including Egypt, Jordan, the UN and Palestinian leaders, has rejected the idea.

So that’s good, at least.

This is an idea that has, as a prerequisite, the genocide of a people and the theft of their lands; though that does appear to be Israel’s goal in Palestine already, and has obviously been so for as long as I’ve been alive.

And now they’ve come up with a way to profit from what they were doing anyway.

If anything, once Israel starves the last Palestinian to death the ruins of Palestine should be left untouched forever as a monument to humanity’s failure to prevent one generation’s victims from perpetrating the next generation’s Holocaust.