104. Make Gaza GREAT Again

Dismayed by the destruction and death in Gaza? Fear not, the wizards at Boston Consulting Group have a plan – a 38-slide deck that will Make Gaza GREAT Again. It’s a molten nugget of consultant-speak, SimCity planning moves, weirdly proportioned AI slop renderings, and tokenized real estate transactions that place a thin veil of “solutioneering” over what looks an awful lot like ethnic cleansing. Don’t worry – it will all be covered by private investment and all kinds of familiar corporations in the tech, design, construction and security businesses are invited, whether they know it or not. Our hot take on this hottest of messes.

Discussed:

Washington Post article
Wall Street Journal article
Financial Times article
GREAT Trust deck
Pre-GREAT Trust Hebrew version of the deck
Gaza Riviera TikTok video
Scarlett Johansson on SNL: Complicit
Boston Consulting Group
Gaza Humanitarian Foundation
Tony Blair Institute
Ebenezer Howard
Baron von Haussmann
SimCity
Paul Romer’s Charter Cities
Shout back to Episode 92, The Hidden Globe
AECOM
Studio Boeri Architetti
IMEC = India-Middle East Corridor
UN rapporteur communique on Gaza report: Economy of Occupation to an Economy of Genocide