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The same digital infrastructure used by Israel’s military in Gaza has been quietly coded into the design of Gaza’s proposed post-war administration, Byline Times can reveal. Poised to profit are the very American tech giants backing President Donald Trump, who plans to send US troops to Israel to monitor the new Gaza ceasefire.
A Byline Times review of the leaked Gaza International Transitional Authority (GITA) framework, procurement guidance documents, and FEC filings shows that its digital-governance backbone – covering identity, border control, aid logistics and donor coordination – matches the Oracle-Palantir technology ‘stack’ of digital technologies currently used in Israel’s defence network. They further suggest that the GITA board structure is planned to allow this stack an easy entry-point into reconstruction contracts.
The plan was drafted by the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change (TBI), whose biggest financial backer is Larry Ellison, the billionaire co-founder and executive chairman of tech giant Oracle Corporation. Since 2021, the institute received donations or pledges of at least £257 million from the Larry Ellison Foundation, an amount that dwarfs all other donors combined.
The funding has enabled TBI to expand across Africa, the Middle East and Eastern Europe, embedding consultants in government ministries.
TBI insists that Ellison’s money is “ring-fenced” for social and climate programmes. Yet Ellison’s dominance in TBI’s revenue stream makes such separation largely theoretical.
Ellison himself is a Trump supporter and Republican Party megadonor, who has given tens of millions of dollars to the party and embedded Oracle across the American federal government following extensive lobbying. Oracle is also poised to oversee TikTok’s US algorithm after the completion of its US sale, under Trump’s deal with China.
Ellison has close ties to fellow pro-Trump billionaire Peter Thiel, through a little-known partnership between Oracle and Palantir, the surveillance and defence-analytics firm co-founded by Thiel.
Both companies have directly supported Israel’s military operations in the Gaza Strip. But the same companies are also in prime position to profit from the technocratic management of Gaza after the war.
The leaked draft first obtained by Israeli newspaper Ha’aretz outlines a sweeping post-war system: a unified civil registry and digital identity platform; centralised border and customs management; data-driven humanitarian logistics for aid and reconstruction; and an interoperable digital-governance backbone connecting donor agencies and local authorities.
These mirror the operational domains of the Palantir-Oracle technology stack.
The Ellison-Thiel Technological Axis
In April 2024 Oracle and Palantir announced a deep “strategic partnership” to deliver “mission-critical AI solutions to governments and businesses.” It was a relationship nearly a decade in the making – back in 2017 Ellison had held