Though it may be optimistic to talk of Donald Trump’s staff ever being embarrassed, it’s safe to say they are annoyed at the leak of his plans for a proposed resort in Gaza.
Mar-a-Gaza is described as a “luxury casino hotel complex”, catering for the type of super rich person who simply wants to be somewhere warm by the sea, and doesn’t really know or care where in the world it is.
The resort will also have excellent sporting facilities. Trump is said to have joked (we think?) that they could leave the Hamas tunnels in place to act as bunkers on the golf course. “You definitely don’t want your ball to end up there!” he quipped to sycophantic laughter.
Trump is also confident that the current difficulties getting in and out of Gaza would all be solved by opening day “thanks to my good friend Binyamin Netanyahu. No, my guests won’t have to wait in line in the sun for hours and be subject to humiliating body searches like the sandmonkeys. Not even when they’re Arabs - and believe me, those Saudi boys like to party when they’re away from home!”
Asked whether the indigenous population would simply be cleared out, Trump replied “No, not at first. I mean, we’ll need people to build the place, obviously.”
Critics of the plan have pointed out how culturally insensitive it is to build a hymn to Western excess and obscene decadence in the middle of the Muslim world, not to mention redundant since Dubai already exists.
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