where trump is right in principle about gaza is understanding that they need development, not aid. fascism breeds on desperation. so long as gazans have no way to survive but via handouts, they will look for somebody to blame, and hamas will find recruits. the economy here is not an afterthought to peace, it's a precondition for it; it's less about stopping the war to create investment and more about creating investment to end the war. 

the problems are with the actors on the ground. it's the palestinians themselves that are going to prevent this from happening.

first, you need to blow up the handouts industry. investors and corporations that profit off of foreign aid seek to maintain dependency, and it's the dependency that's the colonialism, to the extent it exists. you need to get them out of there.

second, is finding a market for the local economy. it's too small to be self-sustaining. if gaza is to make something, who buys it? when john kerry took a look at this, he tried to convince israel to buy the stuff, but they wouldn't. israel wanted to make it's own stuff and didn't see a role for the palestinians in performing labour. there are too many people there to survive solely in hospitality and tourism. who buys it? egypt? europe? it's not clear that there's a clear market that can sustain the region. gaza has not historically been a state, it's historically been a province, and the basic dollars and cents of what the region can and might produce as an autonomous region are daunting. the premise of gazan autonomy is economically dubious to nonsensical.

third is dealing with the reality that the palestinians are going to accuse anybody building large towers in the region as being "agents of babylon" and "zionists" and start blowing them up. the heartbreaking reality is that the loudest opponent to gazan reconstruction in the way imagined will be the palestinians themselves, and they will declare war on the construction industries for being satanic, jewish and unislamic.

this is the reason many voices have tried to point to the need to de-nazify palestine as a prerequisite for any workable solution short of an eventual islamo-fascist theocracy. trump is claiming he's going to "wipe out" hamas if they don't disarm. he's right, but good luck with that. is he going to flood the tunnels? bomb them with bunker busters? israel's been trying to figure this out for years. 

nobody wants to deal with the facts on the ground, which are that the people that live there want to kill everybody and erect a fascist theocracy. it's hard to see how trump's plan is going anywhere without starting with an actual genocide first, in ways israel never truly considered. and, this might be one of those rare historical examples where wiping a people out is justified and the best course of action.