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Hamas Will Work at the Mall

from Emilia Pérez & The New Gaza | The Tim Dillon Show #430 · #430

4 min

Tim elaborates at length on his 'called it' theory that Gaza will become a luxury resort/mall complex, comparing it to Ukraine's rebuilding and joking that Hamas members will end up working retail jobs like Build-A-Bear and PF Chang's.

In this bit9 moments
  • Tim outlines the questions real estate developers obsess over: amenities, pools, valet, doormen, and whether a development qualifies as luxury or uber-luxury.
  • Real estate developers and regional power players are salivating at the prospect of rebuilding Gaza, driven entirely by the possibility of making enormous amounts of money.
  • Jared Kushner is in Miami planning to carve up beachfront property in Gaza into hotels, shopping districts, casinos, and high-end developments.
  • Tim claims he knew from October 7th that Gaza would follow the same pattern: prolonged war followed by a rebuilding process controlled by outside interests.
  • Ukrainian refugees are living in ski towns across France, spending American and UK money they've laundered while the original sources of funding remain unclear.
  • Real estate developers will treat Ukraine's reconstruction as an enormous opportunity, dwarfing even major American real estate markets.
  • Gaza represents something bigger than the Pacific Palisades or any Hollywood enclave—a prime piece of religious and geopolitical real estate in the Middle East.
  • Developers are coming for Ukraine, the breadbasket of Europe, because this is simply how global capital works when conflict ends.
  • Tim compares receiving free chocolate at a redeveloped location in Gaza to avoiding acid attacks, suggesting even modest improvements beat the status quo.
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