Peace to Prosperity

Summary

The Trump White House’s 181-page January 2020 plan for Palestine, called the “Deal of the Century”, read in the Conclusion of Invited to Witness — Solidarity Tourism across Occupied Palestine as a continuation of US-backed Israeli state policy intent on annexing as much land as possible, with tourism wedded to apartheid (Invited to Witness — Solidarity Tourism across Occupied Palestine, PDF p.262-263).

The plan, authored by Jared Kushner, “gifts” Palestine with investments in tourism, lauds the historical and religious sites of the West Bank and Gaza, and states: “Unique and exciting characteristics give the West Bank and Gaza the potential to transform into a successful global tourism destination” (PDF p.262).
In tourist-brochure form it references Palestinian desserts, Ramallah’s famous Rukab’s Ice Cream and Nablus’s kanafeh, in language Kelly notes approximates Laila el-Haddad’s You Are Not Here (PDF p.262).
Positioning tourism as a “Breakout Venture”, it specifies $750 mi l l i o nin co n cess i o na l f inan c in g,$ 200 million in grant funding and $375 million in loans for the “rehabilitation and development of tourism sites” (PDF p.263).
It produces a vision of Palestine even further segmented, with segregated roads and racialized enclaves of Palestinian presence scattered, severed from one another and connected only by roads and tunnels all controlled by Israel; Yara Hawari calls it a plan of “total Palestinian capitulation” (PDF p.263).
Kelly cites it as Trump White House, “Peace to Prosperity” (Conclusion notes 1-2, PDF p.302).

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aliases	Deal of the Century