#09 Fetishizing Gaza
The significance of Trump’s policy in Palestine lies in how it is turning Gaza into an irrational fantasy. It is an obsession with creating a prototype for a world envisioned by the 1%.
For them, Gaza has become the ultimate laboratory for experimenting with the future of dominance—where total destruction is justified and instrumental for tech-driven “creation”.
Gaza is not the first region where corporations have played a role in post-war rebuilding. Yet it is a focal and early case in the decades of exponential technology, weakened nation-states, and corporate hegemony.
Today, when we talk about corporations, we’re not just talking about implicated contractors seeking profit through shady political ties—but a missionary force aiming to advance, experiment, and set precedents for a world to come.
Several factors make this fantasy appealing: the existence of an Israeli technological infrastructure already capitalizing Palestinian suffer for technological growth, the on-paper size of Gaza which is wrongly seen as “containable”, the readiness of Arab dictatorships to play a mediator role, and of course the given destruction of almost every field of life in Gaza.
They seek a Tabula Rasa,(a state always imagined by colonialists), of total erasure of the land that allows them to start again without a history, culture, traditions, or any other actual human property. Where cities can be rebuilt according to technological and digital rationales, with no regard for justice, values, or human and communal structures.
We supposedly live in an international system built on human rights, peacekeeping, and justice — a system designed in the aftermath of World War II on the principle of “Never Again.” Though it was never truly effective, it has now become irrelevant: all that matters today is the unyielding drive of corporations for technological supremacy.
We must defend a world where communities own their spaces, produce to meet their daily needs, and remain connected to their homes through active participation in building their homeland, making their own decisions, and retaining the knowledge embedded in their lives.
In this sense, Gaza is defending the world from the sci-fi madness of today’s actual world leaders. █
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Inspire
Rawa’s community in Gaza has recently decided to support, among other initiatives, two groups focused on recycling and repairing clothes in preparation for winter. In Northern Gaza, “Creative Fingers,” and in the South, “Thread and Needle,” are taking the lead by opening workshops, distributing clothing at free or affordable prices, and providing tools and services to those who want to repair their clothes. They also train young men and women in the skills needed to design and craft clothes.
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