Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu's vision for Gaza in 2035 involves long-term planning for transport infrastructure and regional integration, aligning with broader geoeconomic visions. The plan is seen as part of a larger competition for infrastructure hegemony involving Israel, the US, the EU, India, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE. Critics find the vision surreal and potentially isolating for Israel, diverting focus from other regional issues.
Slide deck for Netanyahu's techno-utopian/-dystopian "Gaza 2035" suggests the model could be repeated in Yemen, Syria and Lebanon: https://t.co/obIODwKszQ
Adam Tooze on Netanyahu's vision for Gaza, and the "tabula rasa" he is creating as the first step towards that vision. I found this an absolutely chilling read. https://t.co/EqsCEj18O0
Netanyahu's Gaza 2035 vision may seem merely grotesque in isolation, but it fits intomacroregional infrastructure competition in which Israeli-EU-US-India-Saudi&UAE are pitted against a "railway of resistance" connecting Iran-Iraq-Syria Chartbook 284 https://t.co/zaIihr0yDE https://t.co/fNEpaFdpCX
Israeli planning for Gaza 2035 may seem surreal. But it segues neatly with the IMEC plan being touted by USA, EU, Saudi, UAE and India as recently as G20 Sep 2023. Chartbook 284 on the nested visions of infrastructure hegemony. https://t.co/zaIihr16tc https://t.co/rvuxrS4Agk
One of the extraordinary things about Netanyahu's Gaza 2035 vision is that it does NOT exist in the mad vacuum of war. It is part of long-range Israeli planning for transport infrastructure-based regional integration. See Chartbook 284 for more context https://t.co/zaIihr0yDE https://t.co/5zktMeAFg0
When @zeithistoriker circulated images of Gaza 2035 a few days ago, I thought they must be a spoof. But they are truly Netanyahu's postwar planning. Not only that, but they are tied to much wider geoeconomic visions of region. Check out Chartbook 284: https://t.co/zaIihr16tc https://t.co/FV1TB1Emk6
Gaza: "the decade after" - the surreal geoeconomic imaginary of Netanyahu's "economic peace" The latest Chartbook newsletter just dropped h/t @zeithistoriker https://t.co/qg0bZNXOsh https://t.co/1ZQLbfnEdp
In my view, if this is what happens, and it’s a decent assessment of one possibility, this seems like a road to disaster for Israel in which it will be slowly sucked into years of focusing solely on Gaza as it is increasingly isolated and unable to focus on regional or other… https://t.co/d21VVqew6t