Trump maximizes real estate golf business in the Middle East Son-in-law's 'ethnic cleansing Gaza' fund business
The New York Times revealed that the Trump family maximizes real estate and golf business in the Middle East and that son-in-law Kushner initially proposed a Gaza 'ethnic cleansing' redevelopment project.
On February 15th of last year, son-in-law Kushner said at an event sponsored by Harvard Kennedy School of Government that "the coastal real estate in Gaza could be very valuable" and suggested that Israel "should kick people out and clean it up," and the New York Times released the video on the 5th.
After a summit with Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu on the 4th, President Trump announced the 'occupation of Gaza' and said, "If we can find the right land, or a lot of land, and if we can build a lot of money and a really nice place in the area, that's for sure. It would be much better than going back to Gaza," and proposed a real estate development project in the Gaza Strip. "Everyone I've talked to likes the idea of the United States owning that land. It would be something tremendous, developing and creating thousands of jobs."
The New York Times reported that “President Trump has declared that the United States should seize Gaza and permanently resettle the entire Palestinian population of the devastated coastal area,” and that “President Trump has suggested that the resettlement of the Palestinians would be similar to the New York real estate projects that he has built his career on.”
As President Trump pushes ahead with new plans to evict 2 million people from Gaza, claiming to have seized the area, he is arguing that he is drawing the United States ever deeper into the region where his family has a growing real estate and business interest, the New York Times reported.
Regarding Jared Kushner’s investments in Israel, he said, “He raised $4.5 billion from the sovereign wealth funds of oil-rich countries such as Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates using the foundation he built as a White House adviser during the first term of the Trump administration while running the private equity fund Affinity Partners.” He also said, “Kushner has also invested in at least two Israeli-based businesses, including insurance company Phoenix Holdings and the car leasing business of Shlomo Holdings.”
Shlomo Holdings, Kushner’s business partner, is the sole owner of a “warship builder” in Israel and has been in a joint venture with the majority shareholder of an Israeli military contractor that has been exclusively using “military supplies ships” to expand the Israeli military’s war in Gaza, armed with American weapons, during the current war.
The real ruler of the Middle Eastern golf business, in which Korean conglomerates are deeply involved, is the Trump family. Trump is the key partner of LIV Golf, a new professional golf league funded by Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund, and he is the background behind the golf boom in Korea.
The Trump family’s Middle Eastern golf business has grown by hosting one of its tournaments at Trump National Doral near Miami every April for four consecutive years, and LIV Golf is paying the Trump family to host the tournament.
The New York Times reported that “the weekend event scheduled for this April will draw thousands of customers into restaurants and hotel rooms,” and that “Trump and his family own more than a dozen golf courses around the world, all of which benefit from the media attention that this Saudi-sponsored tournament brings.” President Trump has long tried to attract these types of tournaments to his golf courses, and the only one that has been canceled was on Jan. 6, 2021, after a mob of his supporters attacked the Capitol.
Trump’s business has grown largely in the Middle East, including Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and Israel, and his rhetoric about the region often extends into policy.
“The Middle East has become the hottest place for the Trump family to make new international real estate deals over the past three years,” the Times reported. “Most of these are so-called branding deals that earn the family tens of millions of dollars in fees in exchange for the right to use their names to help sell luxury condos, golf courses or hotels.”
The Trump Foundation recently signed a deal with Saudi-based real estate company Dar Al Arkan to build high-rise luxury apartments, golf courses or hotels in Oman, Saudi Arabia and Dubai. “We are delighted to strengthen our ongoing relationship with the Trump Organization,” Ziad El Chaar, an executive at Dar Al Arkan, said in announcing one of the deals last year.
The project in Oman, far from the Middle East’s political turmoil due to a long civil war, owns the land on which Trump’s golf course and hotel will be built.
The resort, developed under the auspices of the Omani government, is still at least three years away from opening, but the Trump Foundation has already pocketed at least $7.5 million from the Oman deal, according to an analysis of financial reports from the past two years.
The Times, which released footage of Trump’s sons Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr. visiting Oman last summer to check on the project’s progress, said the Trump sons were “accompanied by Dar Al Arkan Chairman Yousef Al Shelash” touring the site.
DarGlobal, a subsidiary of Saudi-based real estate company Dar Al Arkan, is partnering with the Trump Organization to build high-rise luxury apartments, golf courses, and hotels in Oman, Saudi Arabia, and Dubai.
The real estate company Dar Al Arkan has close ties to the Saudi royal family.
The Trump family had been exploring potential deals in Israel before the October 7, 2023, terrorist attacks that triggered the Gaza Strip war, and remains interested in pursuing real estate and other projects there, the New York Times reported on October 9.
Amid the Gaza war, the Trump sons seized the opportunity to invest in Donald J. Trump’s family business in central Jerusalem, a short walk from the Israeli Supreme Court and the prime minister’s office.
The New York Times cited documents from the Trump Foundation and reported that “last year, a deal was made to open a luxury hotel on the site of the Israeli Foreign Ministry headquarters,” adding that “the hotel, located at the center of government power, was reminiscent of Trump’s previous hotel near the White House, which was crowded with dignitaries and supporters during his presidency.”
The New York Times, which interviewed Trump Foundation confidential documents and people involved in the talks, reported that “Trump’s company also considered converting a high-rise building in Tel Aviv into another Trump-branded hotel,” adding that “the twisted glass and steel tower is located near the headquarters of the Israel Defense Forces and, when completed, will have the most hotel rooms in Israel.”
His son Eric Trump, who runs the Trump family business, confirmed in interviews and documents that he began negotiations immediately after his father announced his candidacy for the 2022 presidential election.
Just before his inauguration, Trump pressured the US by saying, “If there is no ceasefire in Gaza, we will show you hell.” The temporary ceasefire led by the CIA and Mossad at the end of Biden’s term was actually a cover for the Trump family’s real estate business.
The New York Times reported that “the two negotiations have not yet been finalized and talks have not resumed since Hamas’ attack on Israel a year ago, but the Trump Organization continues to express interest in opening hotels in Israel.”
Eric Trump, the president’s son, said in October last year that he would wait until the war ended before proceeding with the project.
In an interview, he told the New York Times that “we were in serious discussions last year (2023) to open hotels in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv,” and that “the Trump Organization withdrew after the Hamas attack (in October 2023).”
The Trump sons’ secret dealings are led by the second and third generations of Korean conglomerates, and Shinsegae Group Chairman Chung Yong-jin attended the inauguration ceremony at the invitation of Trump’s eldest son and did not disclose the transaction relationship. The Trump family’s latest Middle East outpost is the Trump International Golf Club in Dubai, which the Trump family invested in first and made into a Middle Eastern outpost, and it first opened in 2017, shortly after Trump began his first term in the White House.
The Dubai club’s partner is DAMAC Properties, run by billionaire real estate mogul Hussain Sajwani, and Trump announced in December that he planned to invest billions of dollars to build his data center in the United States.
Hussain Sajwani, a UAE national, is the founder and chairman of international real estate developer DAMAC Properties and the founder and chairman of DAMAC Group. Gil Eshel, a Tel Aviv-based commercial real estate broker who helped broker the deal between Trump’s Israeli real estate company Nitsba Group and Lockwood Development Partners, told the Times that the Trumps “plan to start in Jerusalem and expand to Tel Aviv.”
In 2018, during the first term of the Trump administration, he declared Jerusalem the capital of Israel and moved the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem in May, which led to Israeli military fire on Palestinian protests, sparking a Hamas attack on October 7, 2023.
Son-in-law Kushner and daughter Ivanka were introduced directly to North Korean Chairman Kim Jong-un by Trump, who blocked President Moon Jae-in from attending the Panmunjom North Korea-US summit, and a condominium project on the east coast of North Korea was planned, along with the redevelopment of a Mediterranean resort with the Gaza Strip fund.
Kushner began coordinating the North Korea-US summit with Singaporean American financier Gabriel Schulz, who was doing business in Mongolia, in the summer of 2017 and passed it on to CIA Director Pompeo, and the CIA, while developing the Singapore North Korea-US summit as 'Operation Bloody Nose', invested a huge amount of money in operations throughout South Korea starting in May 2017 through the Korea Mission Center (KMC), which was not reported to the US Congress.
The CIA-promoted North Korea scenario, the 'Operation Bloody Nose', attempted to secretly install fiber-optic cables connecting South Korea and Japan to North Korea and remote eavesdropping bases that could access the North Korean internet, and the 'North Korean economic prosperity' scenario, with a video of 'Kim Jong-un riding a white horse on Mt. Baekdu' on the front page, and the entire North Korea was presented with a splendid scene of 'the same night lights of the Korean Peninsula seen from space', just like South Korea, but it ended in failure at the Hanoi summit.
To his daughter Ivanka, then-Deputy Prime Minister Kim Dong-yeon visited the White House and donated 50 million dollars of Bank of Korea funds as a 'foundation fund', and President Moon Jae-in said at the New York summit in September 2017, 'Koreans respect President Trump.'
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