“…We’re watching the rise of a new anti-democratic extremism—networked, crypto-financed, and cloaked in the language of freedom. The Network State is not about liberty. It’s about power. It’s not a utopia, it’s a bunker. A fortress city with drone defense and unregulated biotech, where capital is king and citizenship is a subscription.
—Gil Duran, The Nerd Reich
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“New Gaza” and “New Rafah”
Merrian-Webster defines “obscene” as “repulsive by reason of crass disregard of moral or ethical principles.”
The first project of the Board of Peace is obscene: a massive commercial real estate grift, under cover of implementing a Gaza ceasefire plan, built literally on top of the human remains and rubble of a fresh genocide.There is more than meets the eye when it comes to the proposed Gaza redevelopment “master plan” promoted by Jared Kushner at the recent World Economic Forum in Davos. The Board of Peace demands an extraordinarily opaque, unaccountable legal architecture, fortified by sweeping global shields and immunity claims, precisely because it is far more than a real estate project.
On the surface it is designed to dazzle. In glossy computer renderings the scheme is centered by a new coastal tourism strip and two showcase cities, “New Rafah” and “New Gaza.” It envisions a seafront “coastal tourism” zone long enough for up to 180 skyscrapers, many of them hotels, lining Gaza’s Mediterranean shore, with an adjacent port and airport in the southwest corner near the Egyptian border. Kushner’s powerpoint shows glass towers, luxury waterfront apartments, parks, sports complexes, data centers, and large high tech zones intended to make Gaza a regional logistics and tech hub.
The flagship “New Rafah” project is described as having over 100,000 permanent housing units, around 200 education centers, roughly 180 cultural, religious or vocational centers, and about 75 medical facilities. The plan clusters Palestinian housing into four district‑like areas separated by large parks and industrial zones, and ties all reconstruction to the full “demilitarization” of Gaza.
Despite the project being nothing less than the complete reconstruction of their homeland, Palestinians have been entirely excluded from the Executive Board, the general membership, and all positions of meaningful authority or influence in the decision-making process. Benjamin Netanyahu, on the other hand, is a founding member.
Last May, while on a middle east trip, Trump revealed the real, darker nature of the project “I have concepts for Gaza that I think are very good. Make it a freedom zone. Let the United States get involved and make it just a freedom zone. I’d be proud to have the United States have it, take it, make it a freedom zone.”
The Network State
The Board of Peace is planning to build a “freedom city” in Gaza.
Curtis Yarvin’s seminal role in promoting techno fascism and the network state has been clear—his “Patchwork” essays and Dark Enlightenment writings imagine a world of thousands of such corporate city‑states, each run by a CEO‑like sovereign.
Balaji Srinivasan is the architect and marketer of the overall blueprint: his “network state” doctrine provides an ideological and technical playbook: They are pitched as semi-autonomous city-states with investor written charters, ultra low regulation and corporate style governance that replaces municipal democracy…”
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‘It was the decision of one oligarch’: Bulgarian PM Gyurov walks back Board of Peace participation
“…Bulgarian PM says Board of Peace participation was not cleared by parliament and joining was the result of political maneuvering by “one oligarch”.
Bulgaria’s caretaker Prime Minister Andrey Gyurov told Euronews joining the Board of Peace led by US President Donald Trump was the result of “one oligarch’s decision” and does not reflect the political consensus in the country.
“It would be an exaggeration to say this is the position of Bulgaria,” he told Euronews Special Report in an interview Thursday. “It was not a question of international politics – it was a personal question of one oligarch who is sanctioned by the Global Magnitsky Act.”
“The signing of this treaty has to do with him being removed from this list of sanctions. I do not think it will work. What is surprising, unfortunately, is the influence of an oligarch in some parties,” he added.
The oligarch in question, although not mentioned by name, is Delyan Peevski. An influential figure in Bulgarian politics from the shadows, Peevski is currently sanctioned by the United States and the United Kingdom for bribery and corruption…”