Who’s Joseph Pelzman? Prof, Ex-USAID Staffer Who ‘Sent’ Trump Gaza Plan, Proposed ‘China-Styled…’

US President Donald Trump’s proposal to relocate Gaza’s Palestinians and then redevelop the Gaza Strip has sent shockwaves worldwide. Rejected by the Arab world and much of the international community, it has been welcomed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as an idea that “could change history,” “worth listening carefully to,” and “the first original idea that has been raised in years.”For one man in Washington, however, the proposal Trump unveiled when hosting Netanyahu at the White House on Tuesday came as no shock: George Washington University Professor Joseph Pelzman.An expert in economics and international relations and head of the university’s Center of Excellence for the Economic Study of the Middle East and North Africa (CEESMENA), Pelzman authored the plan and submitted it to Trump’s team as early as July 2024. n18oc_world n18oc_crux