Wanna fall down a rabbit hole with me?I never thought wed end up with tech billionaires, ex-prime ministers, social-media apps, and war zones all tangled together – yet here we are.
This story starts with Larry Ellison, the Oracle billionaire. Back in 2015, newly leaked emails show him personally vetting Marco Rubio for loyalty to Israel and arranging a meeting between Rubio and Tony Blair. Fast forward a decade, and Rubio is Secretary of State, Blairs running an institute advising governments, and Ellison’s money has quietly flowed through both politics and postwar reconstruction projects.
Blairs think tank, the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change, has been connected to a proposal called the Gaza Riviera – a plan to rebuild Gaza into something resembling a private coastal investment zone. Think luxury resorts and tech campuses replacing bombed-out housing. Blairs office insists they didn’t design it, but staff from his institute were involved in the early talks.
Its Project 2025 all over again – theyve never heard of the plan until they start implementation of the plan.
Ellison has dropped major dollars into the institute. Which means the billionaire who vetted Rubio for foreign-policy loyalty is also bankrolling the organization advising on how to rebuild a territory that Rubio’s State Department is helping to shape. Thats not a conspiracy theory. Thats a Venn diagram where all the circles overlap.
Now toss in TikTok. Rubio has been one of the loudest voices pushing to ban or force the sale of the app in the U.
S. Ellison’s tech network reportedly has ties to potential buyers and investors who could benefit from any forced divestment. So while Congress pretends its all about national security, there’s a chance that what’s really being secured is a piece of the next media empire.
Heres what’s confirmed: Ellison funded Blairs institute, Blairs team has advised on Gazas reconstruction, and Rubio’s political rise was boosted by Ellison’s orbit. Whats still being vetted: whether the same small circle of power players is shaping how Americans get their news, how Palestinians rebuild their land, and who profits from both.
It sounds too cinematic to be real – tech money, foreign policy, and propaganda apps all converging in a strip of land smaller than Philadelphia. But that’s where we are. Gaza is the geopolitical lab, and the same people writing the code are writing the policy.