These sources collectively substantiate every factual component of this piece — from the timeline of a two-year covert planning effort and Trump’s “Riviera” reconstruction rhetoric,
• i24 News (October 22, 2025) — Reported U.S. officials’ description of postwar Gaza being divided into “safe zones,” consistent with Kushner’s and Witkoff’s post-conflict planning
Supporting Context on Policy Architecture • Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (September 30, 2025) — Provided detailed breakdown of Trump’s Gaza peace plan structure, including its development, administrative, and reconstruction frameworks.
• Salon (October 8, 2025) — Traced Trump’s explicit fusion of prosperity gospel rhetoric into his political and fundraising strategy, portraying himself as a divinely chosen instrument.
Christian Prosperity Doctrine and Prophetic Branding • PBS NewsHour (August 7, 2025) — Described Trump’s administration as deeply aligned with conservative Christian organizations, embedding faith-driven politics into federal and global policy.
• Forbes (June 16, 2025) — Verified significant licensing fees from Saudi developer Dar Al Arkan to the Trump Organization, highlighting the deep financial entanglements between Trump’s business and his Middle East political network.
• Deutsche Welle (February 11, 2025) — Outlined Trump family business expansion in the Middle East, showing the overlap between Trump Organization investments and broader U.S. policy interests.
Trump’s Broader Gaza and Middle East Ambitions • Wikipedia / BBC via Trump’s February 2025 remarks — Documented Trump’s proposal to “redevelop the territory into the ‘Riviera of the Middle East,’” with relocation of 2 million Palestinians and a U.S.-directed reconstruction model.
• CBS News (October 19, 2025) — Kushner and Witkoff discussed how their real estate backgrounds shaped Trump’s ceasefire negotiations and reconstruction ambitions
• WIRED (October 14, 2025) — Revealed that a corporate-backed plan to rebuild Gaza included the logos of U.S. and international firms, tied to the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), aligning with Trump-linked entrepreneurial proposals.
• Arab Center DC (September 3, 2025) — Detailed the GREAT Trust for Gaza, describing it as a U.S.-endorsed “blueprint for dispossession,” projecting U.S.-controlled redevelopment and controversial relocation of Gazans
• Politico (October 20, 2025) — Reported Kushner and Witkoff’s involvement in a 20-point framework under Trump’s postwar Gaza plan, combining security and redevelopment incentives.
Primary Evidence on Gaza Reconstruction and “Master Plan” • ABC News (October 20, 2025) — Steve Witkoff publicly acknowledged a “master plan” for Gaza’s reconstruction, linked with Jared Kushner and U.S. oversight efforts, confirming discussions around a two-year planning horizon.
In Gaza’s dust, this “Master Plan” is the prosperity gospel’s final mutation: salvation through portfolio growth, resurrection through demolition rights. The faithful are told it’s God’s plan. The accountants call it ROI.
There is a quiet cruelty in the architecture of this faith-for-profit design. The cross that once symbolized sacrifice now anchors a real estate brochure. The promise to “protect the holy” is monetized via private reconstruction funds.
Under Trump, Christianity — long wrapped in flags and campaign slogans — now appears reconstructed as a commercial instrument of divine capitalism, where the suffering of Christian Palestinians is reinterpreted as a market opportunity for “Biblical nation-building.”
Kushner, aware of how easily “economic strength” translates to “profit extraction,” was said to have immediately intervened. Witnesses described him as “ashen,” muttering that Witkoff wasn’t supposed to mention the timeline — the plan had been in motion “for two years.”
Witkoff’s loose remarks reportedly referenced an “opportunity to bring God’s light back to Gaza through economic strength” — language eerily consistent with Trump’s earlier public messaging to American evangelicals.
Ostensibly devised to “protect Christian sites and families,” the initiative channels U.S.-sanctioned construction licenses and restoration funds into joint ventures involving Trump allies, regional speculators, and religious nonprofits tied to reborn American megachurches.
At its heart lies a cynical paradox — Christianity rebuilt not through grace, but through contracts, concrete, and private agreements stamped with Trump Organization affiliates and Israeli developers with U.S. evangelical backing.
This vision, sold to the faithful as a prosperity gospel of rebirth and redemption, instead looks to many observers like an unholy merger of spiritual branding and military capitalism.
