In my article early last week, “Trump Should Pull Out of Gaza Nation Building”, I warned that this was coming.

If the Trump administration backs the deal, it will be forced to act as a ‘guarantor’ which will not only mean protecting Hamas, but an extended terrorist nation-building program bigger even than Iraq or Afghanistan. Phase 3 of the deal reportedly calls for a 3-5 year rebuilding program.

That timetable would have President Trump spend his whole second term rebuilding Gaza.

And the UN’s actual numbers are far worse. The UN Development Program is estimating $50 billion in costs to rebuild Gaza by 2040

Steven Witkoff, the real estate guy with a history of previous dealings with Hamas’s state sponsors in Qatar, appointed by President Trump to act as his Middle East envoy, is now parroting the UN’s numbers.

Witkoff, a real estate developer, assesses that the demolition and moving of the debris alone will take five years.

“There has been this perception we can get to a solid plan for Gaza in five years. But its impossible. This is a 10 to 15 year rebuilding plan,” he said.

That 15-year plan would put it at… 2040.

What that means is the U.S. would be dragged into this nation-building project in Gaza for President Trump’s entire second term and for, if he should get them, J.D. Vance’s two terms in office.

Madness.

While Trump is saying sensible things about getting a terrorist population out of Gaza and over to Egypt or Jordan, where they originally came from, Witkoff appears to dismiss the whole idea.

Witkoff told Axios he hasn’t discussed with Trump the idea of moving Palestinians from Gaza.

Instead, Witkoff had the brighter idea of committing the U.S. to the Biden plan to save Hamas, putting U.S. boots on the ground as I revealed in my latest article, and a 10-15 year rebuilding program.

This is not America First. This is Gaza First. This is Islam First.