Part 7: Who TF Am I Working For?? | The Plan for a Smart City in Gaza

Sep 30, 2025

Trump announced his Gaza peace deal yesterday, and I haven’t felt peace since. I keep thinking one day a piece of news won’t have him involved in some way so that I can finally get an evening off from the Larry Ellison beat. But then I saw Tony Blair is co-chairing it, and suddenly I’m back on familiar ground.

If you don’t know who Tony Blair is beyond former British Prime Minister, here’s what matters: He runs the Tony Blair Institute, a governance consulting think tank that works with forty-five countries around the world. Larry Ellison’s foundation and Oracle have given them over $250 million since 2022. Former employees say the Institute essentially became Oracle sales after that money started flowing. They’d embed with government advisors, and suddenly Oracle would land massive contracts.

Given the announcement that Blair allegedly has interest in being involved with this peace deal, I decided to check in on him on Wikipedia. The last revision on his page was from that same day. At the bottom, there was a new addition about something called “The GREAT Trust”: Gaza Reconstruction, Economic Acceleration and Transformation. According to the edit, Blair’s Institute participated in early discussions. His current involvement is unclear; he may have distanced himself since. But what is clear is that this appears to be the plan for what they’re going to turn Gaza into.

And I found the pitch deck. It’s professional, polished, complete with BCG consulting and detailed financial modeling. There’s a Gaza Trump Riviera Islands. An Elon Musk Manufacturing Zone (which is bold considering Tesla probably won’t have actual self-driving by 2035; but I digress). All services and economy would run through ID-based AI-powered digital systems.

But here’s what’s keeping me up tonight: the funding model. Page nine describes something called “land tokenization.” They want to convert Palestinian land into blockchain tokens. Public lands (thirty percent of Gaza) go into a trust. Private landowners would be offered the chance to place their land in the trust in exchange for tokens that give rights to eventual housing.

If you don’t want to participate in turning your ancestral land into cryptocurrency, there’s a “voluntary relocation program.” Five thousand dollars per person to leave. Four years of subsidized rent somewhere else.

I’ve written about Larry Ellison’s involvement in Gaza and Israel before. The AI weaponry being developed there. The surveillance systems. The ways the occupation has become a testing ground for technology that gets deployed everywhere else. But I never really let myself think about what comes after all that destruction and displacement.

This is possibly what comes after. And they could potentially fund it all through the blockchain.

Oracle has already built two data centers in Jerusalem, nine stories underground. The pitch deck lists partnerships with IKEA, Tesla, AWS. This is the dream scenario; no legacy systems, no existing infrastructure. Just a blank slate and the opportunity to build everything from scratch.

I’ve included the pitch deck below. I might dig into this more later, trace more of the connections and the money. But right now I’m putting this out there because we need to talk about this. This is what reconstruction looks like when venture capital gets involved. This is what happens when crisis becomes opportunity.

And if we’re not paying attention, if we’re not talking about it, this becomes a certainty for our blueprint.