Trump Wants to Transform Gaza into “US Territory”? Goodbye to “Greater Israel”?

By Prof Michel ChossudovskySeptember 30, 2025 The Plan for Gaza submitted by the White House on September 29, 2025 confirms Washington’s Intent to transform Gaza into a US Territory

Israel will not occupy or annex Gaza. As the I.S.F. establishes control and stability, the Israel Defense Forces (I.D.F.) will withdraw based on standards, milestones, and time frames linked to demilitarization that will be agreed upon between the I.D.F., I.S.F., the guarantors, and the United States, with the objective of a secure Gaza that no longer poses a threat to Israel, Egypt, or its citizens.Practically, the I.D.F. will progressively hand over the Gaza territory it occupies to the ISF according to an agreement they will make with the transitional authority until they are withdrawn completely from Gaza, save for a security perimeter presence that will remain until Gaza is properly secure from any resurgent terror threat.

What is at stake is the formation of a U.S. neocolonial entity in the Levant. 

In early February, barely two weeks after his inauguration, President Trump intimated that Gaza would become a US territory, with a view to developing a luxury real estate project with mansions, luxury apartments, hotels and casinos.

How many years would it take to remove the ruble and rebuild?

Under Trump’s advisory, Palestinians would be relocated and excluded from their homeland.

“I would like Egypt to take people,…You’re talking about probably a million and a half people, and we just clean out that whole thing and say: ‘You know, it’s over.’” [Trump told the king of Jordan] ….

“I would love for you to take on more, ‘cause I am looking at the whole Gaza Strip right now, and it’s a mess. It’s a real mess.”

Video: President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu: Press ConferenceWill this Multi-billion Dollar Real Estate Project be Carried Out?  

It’s  doubtful.  There is an unspoken objective, which is barely mentioned by the mainstream media. 

As outlined by Felicity Arbuthnot with foresight 11 years ago in a December, 30 2013 article:

“Israel is set to become a major exporter of gas and some oil, “If All Goes to Plan””.  

Arbuthnot was referring to the ownership of Gaza’s maritime natural gas reserves, which belong to the State of Palestine.  

At the time of writing, the Netanyahu government is planning to appropriate these maritime gas reserves. What this signifies is that Israel is intent upon annexing Gaza as well as destroying an entire country. 

The maritime gas reserves belong to Palestine. Israel’s war against Gaza commenced prior to October 7, 2023 with the outright theft of Palestine’s maritime natural gas reserves. which are part of The Levant’s vast maritime corridor of of natural gas reserves in the Easter Mediterranean.

Recent Developments: All Things are NOT Going Well for Netanyahu.

Washington’s intent is to eventually scrap “The Greater Israel” project.

Confrontation between Netanyahu and Trump is currently unfolding, so far behind closed doors.

Washington’s unspoken intent is to transform Gaza into an “American Territory” to prevent the Netanyahu government from appropriating  Gaza’s maritime gas fields.  The management of  the  latter is already underway under the auspices of Israel’s Ministry of Energy. (for details see below)

Secret negotiations are currently unfolding (Reuters May 7, 2025) regarding the creation of a “U.S led administration” (aka American Territory).

“The “high-level” consultations have centered around a transitional government headed by a U.S. official that would oversee Gaza until it had been demilitarized and stabilized… There would be no fixed timeline for how long such a U.S.-led administration would last, which would depend on the situation on the ground, ….” (Reuters May 7, 2025)

US. Foreign Policy will eventually overshadow the so-called “Greater Israel” project.

We can expect a shift in the Zionist narrative.  Netanyahu is a proxy. Is regime change in Israel contemplated?

While Israel has invaded part of Syria’s Southern territories, the U.S project consists in transforming Gaza into a U.S territory under U.S laws. This project would be part of broader US agenda which consists in the militarization of the entire Eastern Mediterranean coast line, namely the Levant extending from the Egypt-Gaza border to the Northern tip of Syria.

As outlined below, Israel’s Ministry  of Energy and Infrastructure has already awarded licenses to six Israeli and international companies “to explore for natural gas in areas that are considered Palestinian maritime areas under international law”.  That announcement was made 3 weeks after October 7, 2023.

America’s Levant Military Corridor

The administrative arm of America’s  Levant military corridor is the gigantic American Embassy in Beirut (in a country of less than 6 million inhabitants), 10 times bigger than that of London, it’s the second largest US Embassy Worldwide after that of Baghdad which serves to administer America’s unspoken colonial project in Iraq.

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Cost: a staggering 750 Million Dollars. “1,350 government employees, and thousands of contractors”

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Israel’s Ministry of Energy 

Already in July 2023, Israel’s Ministry of Energy (IEM) opened the bidding for the exploration of maritime natural gas in Gaza.

And then, three weeks after October 7,  the Ministry (IEM) announced the granting of licenses to both Israeli and international companies to explore for maritime natural gas.

On October 29, the Ministry on behalf of the Israeli government announced the winning bidders for two Zones within OBR4 (Gaza overlapping with Israeli territorial waters).

The companies included Eni S.p.A (Italy), Dana Petroleum (UK based subsidiary of the South Korean National Petroleum Company), and Ratio Petroleum (an Israeli company).

“Israel awarded gas exploration licenses for Zone G, a maritime area adjacent to the shores of Gaza as depicted in the green area of Map 2 above.

Notably, 62 percent of Zone G falls within  the maritime boundaries declared by the State of Palestine in 2019, in accordance with provisions of the 1982 UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), of which Palestine is a signatory.

In addition to the licenses already awarded in Zone G, Israel has also issued tenders for Zones H and E (as depicted in pink on Map 2); 73 percent of Zone H falls within Palestine’s declared maritime boundaries, along with five percent of Zone E.:” See Adalah

For additional information, see the Ministry’s press release.

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Gaza: “A U.S. Territory”? Is Trump “Attempting” to Bypass the Israeli Government?  

Visibly, the illegal ownership of Gaza’s maritime gas reserves by the State of Israel (as mentioned above) is in blatant contradiction with Donald Trump’s recently announced plan to transform Gaza into a “U.S territory”.

If Trump’s project of a “U.S Territory” were to be carried out, Gaza’s maritime offshore gas reserves, worth billions of dollars WOULD NOT BE MANAGED BY ISRAEL. They would be brought under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Government with a status similar to America’s 14 territories including Guam, America’s Samoa, the US Virgin Islands.

What is at stake is Colonial-style theft in derogation of International Law. Negotiations with oil and gas companies would be under the jurisdiction of the “US Territory”, in liaison with Washington. 

“Territories are areas that belong to and are governed by the “parent” country” [U.S.]

“Territories of the United States are sub-national administrative divisions and dependent territories overseen by the federal government of the United States.

What should also be understood, is that the Gaza maritime gas reserves are part of broader coastal maritime area of natural gas extending from the Egyptian border to Northern Syria. (See map below)

 

Goodbye to “Greater Israel”? 

Under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Government, the Gaza “U.S Territory’s” maritime gas reserves would be under the mandate of the U.S Department of Energy which is  now in the hands of Trump’s appointee Energy Secretary Chris Wright.

While the U.S and Israel are collaborating in the field of energy, Washington and the U.S Energy Department would be calling the shots, if and when the U.S Territory is established. .

According to the Asian Times:

“Three months before the October 7, 2023 attacks, Hamas made a US-brokered deal [?? yet to be confirmed] to allow development of a potentially significant gas field off the coast of Gaza”.

While the war in Gaza has been raging major energy developments in the region have been progressing rapidly”

At a Press Conference in Washington: Trump suggested that:

“displaced Palestinians in Gaza be permanently resettled outside the war-torn territory and proposed the U.S. take “ownership” in redeveloping the area into “the Riviera of the Middle East.”

President Trump confirmed that the U.S annexation of Gaza would be in the form of a “long-term ownership position”. Meanwhile, Trump has been calling for the exodus of the entire population of the people of Palestine from Gaza and the occupied West Bank.

Ironically,  the protest movement against Netanyahu has shifted. Both Netanyahu and Trump are accused of ethnic cleansing and genocide.

It is now abundantly clear that the U.S. was involved in the planning of the genocide

“The long-term ownership” position is tantamount to an act of colonization against the People of Palestine. It suggests the creation of a U.S Territory, which would enable the US government to acquire ownership of Gaza’s maritime natural gas reserves, as well as establish a military base in Gaza. (see below)

Smoking Gun? Gaza and The Rothschild Energy Plan 

Who’s behind Donald Trump? According to Dean Henderson (outstanding analysis):

In addition to the Rothschild riviera plan, there is also the Rothschild energy plan. In 1999 British Gas (BG) discovered a significant gas field in the Gaza Marine fields just 20 miles off Gaza. The Palestinian Authority granted BG a 25-year exploratory concession as a partner, but the Israelis blocked its development.

In 2016 Royal Dutch Shell, whose biggest shareholder is Victor Rothschild, paid BG $52 million for the field. But they would not help the PA develop it either. If the US were to take over Gaza, surely the Rothschilds would commence with its development.

Trump’s declaration yesterday can only be seen as blatant colonialist piracy (Henderson, February 12, 2025)

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