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Riviera of the Middle East

Why didn’t Gazans choose to become this two decades ago?

15 February 2025

9:00 AM

15 February 2025

9:00 AM

President Trump has made the eminently sensible suggestion that the Gaza Strip be restored and developed under some form of US guidance or ‘ownership’.

His proposal is that the Strip become ‘the Riviera of the Middle East’.

Perhaps the President had in mind the superb example of  Beirut, dubbed the ‘Paris of the Middle East’.

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