The same “architects”...
Date: 7 Maggio 2026 Author: Balthazar’s FeastBabylonianempire/ci-sami-architecci
How the same network that rebuilt Ground Zero after 11 September already measures the mediate East.
There is simply a peculiar kind of man who looks at the smoking ruins and sees, before the smoke settles, an chance to develop. past usually rewards him generously, and then the building calls him after him.
Larry Silverstein is that man. Like Howard Lutnick. And like, in your own way, Jared Kushner. These men didn't end up in the same rooms by accident. knowing how they got there requires an knowing of what the first 2 did on 9/11. Abrahamic Agreements they made the third, and what Donald Trump enabled them all.
The rubble created humans
July 24, 2001 Silverstein Properties signed a 99-year lease on the full complex World Trade Center For $3.2 billion, which was then the largest real property transaction in fresh York. 7 weeks later, the buildings disappeared.
Cantor Fitzgerald, a liability trading company whose 658 fresh York employees died that morning in the North Tower, occupied floors 101 to 105, straight above the first plane's impact point. [It was an on-line staging, not an airplane abducted by amateurs.. md] . Howard Lutnick, then CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald, left to escort his boy to the first grade of kindergarten. He survived. His brother Gary didn't.
For these men there have been 2 decades of reconstruction exercises after catastrophic losses and a common rhetorical framework in which patience, organization capital and political access are presented as a natural consequence to ruins. Lutnick made this framework clear. Speaking at the United Hatzalah gala after October 7, he said to the assembled:
“None of my men have survived. Israel will rebuild. And he'll be stronger. In 15 years Israel will be the shining star of the world."
A man who spent 20 years looking at how the panorama of Manhattan recomposed, now projected the same timeline and the same return from patient capital to a country whose panorama has just been greatly reorganized. Purely sentimental, of course.
This sentimental attitude translated into action. After October 7, Lutnick raised $75 million for Trump's run and was co-chair of the presidential transition team, meaning he had a crucial part in the selection of the cabinet he now sits in. In February 2025, he became Secretary of Commerce of the United States, a position liable for the trading framework and investment architecture. During the legislature proceeding on the approval of his nomination, asked about Abrahamic Agreements, expressed his full commitment to expanding them, describing their "great economical potential". That's 1 way to describe it.
Let us be serious about this sequence: Lutnick spent $75 million to put Trump in the White House, co-designed the upcoming administration, placed himself in the position of Secretary of Commerce, and now oversees the commercial architecture regulating the normalized mediate East, the same economical standardisation task he declared his commitment to before Trump was even sworn in. He didn't come into this area by accident – he set up the game and bought himself an entrance.
And he didn't come empty-handed. The Fund “Opportunity Zone” Cantor Fitzgerald and Silverstein Properties, a mechanics designed to direct private capital on a large scale to designated revitalization areas in exchange for crucial taxation benefits, was closed in March 2025, raising over $470 million.
"Opportunity region Fund" they called it.
Nothing out of the average in a $470 million fund for reconstruction, co-managed by the man who rebuilt Ground ZerO, and the man who compared Israel's reconstruction to his own, closed just as it took form to rebuild the generation. The man who co-managed this fund is now the Secretary of Commerce of the United States. The conflict of interests is structural and is barely treated as a problem – due to the fact that so what? Who cares?
If Silverstein is simply a mythology and Lutnick is simply a political lever, then Tal Kerret is an architecture. Born in Bat Yam, educated at Telaviw University, for six years an IDF officer, before he founded 2 technology companies in fresh York City and married the Silverstein family—is, in the most literal organizational sense, a human bridge between the Israeli military establishment, capital markets Tel Aviv and the fresh York real property device located in the center of this story. Not so much married to the function he built, and the construction was intended.
He was besides a talker at the yearly UAE household Office and advanced Net Worth conference in Abu Dhabi in October 2026, held on the island of Saadiyat (whether there was an Iranian rocket attack there?), a fewer kilometres from the office of ADIA, the world's largest sovereign wealth fund. The room, as they say, reserves itself.
Infrastructure is ready
Before we get to how these men got to the same rooms that are presently shaping the future of the mediate East, it's worth stopping at, what Silverstein Properties has already built in Israel and what Israel has built in the United States.
This relation is significant, profoundly financied and barely discussed outside the Israeli business press, most likely due to the fact that the details are both uncomfortable and boring.
Silverstein Properties Limited is an entity issuing bonds listed on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange, which raised nearly $190 million as part of many issues, and Israeli private investors and major organization funds have asset-backed securities in fresh York City.
The operation in Israel is led by Lior Mor, whose career is the microcosm of this network. He came from Menora Mivtachi, where he headed the real property department of 1 of the largest Israeli insurance companies. On TASE he raised over $500 million for Silverstein. He then co-founded his own real property investment firm, Goldstar Equities, while retaining his seat on the supervisory board of Azorim – 1 of Israel's largest developers, now actively participating in post-war reconstruction. At all phase of his career Mor sat precisely at the intersection of Israeli organization capital, real property improvement and financial infrastructure, which decides who, what, where, and then builds.
Thus, the foundation of Israeli organization money for post-crisis revitalization programs was laid long before anyone launched a magic rocket or signed a "low-interest" mortgage that was never to survive.
Probably just good planning.
The kind of planning built over the years to establish contacts, solemn collections, donor networks, private briefings, “on order” missions and informal conversations at dinner tables where these things actually happen.
Which brings us to FIDF.
FIDF: Support network, not charity
FIDF presents itself as a humanitarian organization: a non-profit organization 501(c)(3) dealing with the health, welfare and education of Israeli soldiers. Their financial statements indicate that it was founded in fresh York City on 15 December 1981 and began operations on 1 April 1983. On its website it describes itself as an authoritative American fundraising arm for IDF soldiers.
All very idyllic and pie-style.
That’s right, “please think only about scholarships”
Ugh.
Programs and scholarships are as real as possible. The homes for lone soldiers are furnished and psychiatric care funded. Socks, as you can imagine, are carefully folded.
But erstwhile you hear that in 2023 they raised $280 million, kept them in reserve, they continued to rise funds and let their CEO spend $53,000 on private travel before anyone noticed it – realize what you're truly looking at. It's not a charity that doesn't fulfill its mission. It's a strategy that works precisely as it was designed.
This organization was built as a bridge between American money and Israeli military power. present it is directed by a Major General (retired) Nadav Padan as General manager and National Director, Fred Distenfeld as Chairman, and Dr. Nily Falic as Honorary Chairman. They are surrounded by a supervisory board filled with financiers, executive directors, developers, donors and representatives of institutions and troops.
Do you truly think that 1 of the world's best-funded armies, supported by billions of dollars of American aid and a immense national defence budget, He inactive needs aid from billionaires, corporate subsidies programs, and the generosity shown during the galas by the elite of the American business world?
There was even a time erstwhile the name of Kushner's real property group appeared on screens during these galas, while Jared Kushner sat on the FIDF supervisory board.
Until it was removed.
The donor list is read as a catalog of American power and organization status: Bernie Marcus, Larry Ellison, Jan Koum, Haim Saban, Cheryl Saban, Sheldon and Miriam Adelson, Paul Singer, Michael Dell, household foundations of Jared Kushner, Kushner Real property Group, Silverstein Properties and corporate donation matching programs related to BlackRock, Vanguard, Bank of America, Northrop Grumman, Honeywell, Google, Microsoft, Apple, Starbucks and McDonald’s.
The full ruling class abruptly afraid about the emotional welfare of nineteen-year-old conscripts?
Does it make sense that the Resnicks, California pistachio billionaires, donated $2.4 million to the “Friends of the IDF” organization, and the Iranian pistachio factories were just within scope of the blast?
It's a typical military target, isn't it?
Or is it more likely that grants buy access to institutions that form security, land, infrastructure, trade and reconstruction?
The proceeds decision through preferences, adjustment and early access. any projects go faster. any obstacles disappear. any people are already in the area erstwhile contracts are written down.
Nobody's there due to the fact that they're worried about the soldiers in Beer-Sheba. They're in this area due to the fact that there's a general, and the general is where the influence is. This embarrassing language of concern for soldiers is simply a pass, and the taxation relief makes everything look clean. The most crucial is closeness: FIDF donor position provides access to circles where generals, military, financiers, developers, insurers, ministers and people with maps circulate.
Speaking of morons, during 1 of the FIDF real property missions in Israel, seventeen fresh York developers visited Israel's defence Forces Bases, visited the naval base, watched F-15 aircraft take off, and visited active military facilities in Golan Hills. Marty Burger, erstwhile CEO of Silverstein Properties, described this first journey as a "search for financial contacts", and later became co-chair of the real property mission.
Which is natural erstwhile you just want to aid soldiers.
It is besides worth noting that FIDF is presently a management mess. In mid-2025, Israel's Ynet portal published a leak of an 18-page interior investigative study that accused the organization of mismanagement of finances, kumotorism, abuses of luxury spending and double sales of projects named after donors, including amphitheatres and monuments, many contributors simultaneously. Complaints about sexual harassment have been reportedly misjudged or ignored.
Both the president of the Council and the CEO resigned under pressure. Donations fell, and 1 of the branches in the Gulf of San Francisco recorded a decrease in deposits from over $7 million a year to under $1 million. IDF itself refused to confirm FIDF's claim to be the only authorized fundraising body in the U.S. for its soldiers – claims that have been behind about a billion dollars of collected funds since 2017. Extraordinary management.
Simple version
This is what all this means, expressed directly.
The same people who funded the Israeli military through FIDF are now profiting from rebuilding the buildings that military operations cleared. Many of them were erstwhile military officers. Developers building in areas that were bombed had earlier plans to build there before any "Iran missile" fell. Insurance companies financing reconstruction are the same institutions that over the years financed Silverstein's bonds issuance in Israel.
The man in charge of Israeli operation Silverstein had previously worked in 1 of these insurance companies, and now he sits on the supervisory board of 1 of these developers. The man who mediated in the standardization agreement, which opens up capital from the Gulf for all of this, sat on the supervisory board of FIDF. A man who presently controls American trade and investment policy spent $75 million to get there, and co-managed a $470 million fund aimed at rebuilding with a developer whose son-in-law raises funds from sovereign Gulf assets funds in Abu Dhabi.
Menory Circle: How Bay Money Returns to Developers
The insurance company in the center of all this is Menora Mivtachim, the same institution where Lior Mor headed the real property department before joining Silverstein, and the same institution whose capital relations with Silverstein helped build the Israeli bond program described above.
This is not a pure institution. 1 January 2026 investigators from the Israeli anti-corruption unit Lahav 433, an elite financial crime unit, invaded Menora's offices and interviewed 3 of her top-ranking directors: Ari Kalman's CEO, Yehuda Ben Assayaga's president of the supervisory board, and Orit Kramer's vice president. All 3 were released, but under strict conditions.
The investigation, called “Hand Shaking Hand”, focuses on a corruption scandal in the federation of the Hisstadrut trade unions, where Menora is suspected of bribery and giving illegal incentives to an insurance agent at the heart of the case. Over 370 evidence was collected, 70 suspects were questioned and thousands of papers secured. The indictments are expected. It is an institution which is presently located at the center of the movement of capital for post-conflict reconstruction.
This is how this arrangement works. During the period erstwhile Kushner created a framework for normalising relations within the framework Abraham’s arrangementsMenora Mivtachim invested $30 million in Kushner's residential complexes in the state of Maryland to supply state funds for Israel's economical integration. Menora personally funded Kushner, while this 1 was building a diplomatic structure, which yet brought organization benefits to Menora.
Same company Menora It is presently spending 200 million shekels on Israeli urban revitalization projects, the implementation of which has gained momentum as a consequence of attacks. The Affinity Partners Fund owned by Kushner, with $2 billion from the Saudi Property Fund and another $1.5 billion from the United arabian Emirates and Qatar, is presently seeking the position of Menora's largest shareholder.
Read that series again. Menora finances Kushner's American properties. Kushner creates a framework for normalising relations that attract capital from Gulf countries. Kushner derives billions from Gulf states, to which his agreements have enabled access. Capital from the Persian Gulf returns to Menora, an Israeli insurance company, which is presently the subject of a criminal investigation, financing developers to rebuild the destroyed districts and which will shortly be found in the majority property of the man who designed the diplomatic architecture that made all this possible. This ellipse is simply a business model.
The area was cleared before the rockets fell.
Areas affected by attacks in the northern and central parts of Israel have already been covered by urban regeneration programmes under TAMA 38 and Pinui-Binui, Israeli initiatives to facilitate the demolition and reconstruction of old buildings with defective construction by lowering the threshold of required consent and speeding up the approval of spatial planning plans. After careful analysis, it turns out that the distribution of harm and surviving buildings is more consistent with the plan of demolitions than the logic of the opponent's choice of targets due to military necessity.
In the complex at Tirzah-Yerushalayim Boulevard in Ramat Gan Canadian developer promoted renovation plans covering 7 buildings before the attacks. Carasso Real property and Shaked Group jointly implemented an evacuation and reconstruction task in the confederate part of the complex. Destroyed buildings – Tirzah 12, Tirzah 14 and the building at the boulevard of Yerushalayim 75 – were located in zones covered by active restoration programs.
Baruch Shaked, 1 of these developers, is simply a retired Lieutenant Colonel of the Israel defence Force (IDF) who served in the construction and logistics units of the National Front Command. After the attack, city authorities immediately took action to complete recovery alternatively of repair, coordinating with developer Tidhar the demolition of 11 buildings and the construction of a 60-story skyscraper in accelerated mode. Tidhar was co-founded by Gil Geva after he served as an operational officer in Sayeret Matern, Israel's most elite peculiar intelligence unit. It seems normal.
The military, donors and developers form the same ecosystem, passing between different positions.
In Bat Yam, the town where Tal Kerret was born, on 15 June 2025 a ballistic rocket attributed to Iran allegedly killed 9 people, including 2 children, destroying or damaging 80 buildings, and 800 displaced families were transported by bus to hotels. However, authoritative reports did not mention that Bat Jam was identified, even before the collapse of the first rocket, as 1 of the most attractive urban revitalization markets in central Israel. Rocket didn't make this opportunity. It only accelerated the demolition process, which has already been planned in the urban system.
Then there is Kirya, or IDF's own office in the heart of Tel Aviv, already designated for partial privatisation before the conflict begins. She was hit by a rocket attributed to Iran on 13 June 2025 and again on 4 April 2026.
At the same time, IDF transfers 11 bases from central Israel to the Negev Desert, releasing prime urban areas along the country's most costly property corridor. The replacement military intelligence campus is built by Shikun & Binui, 1 of the largest Israeli improvement companies.
The army is retreating. The developers are coming in. The missiles, attributed to Iran, accelerated the process just in time.
Do you remember how much sound caused the impact on these buildings?
Does that make more sense now?
Exaggerating Iran's possible serves a very circumstantial purpose. It makes damaged properties a national safety event. This gives the public an enemy, provides a justification for the state of emergency, provides insurers with a framework of action, paves the way for developers, and the richest provides another recovery cycle on which they can earn.
Old buildings, disputed plots, halted urban regeneration, insurance claims, extraordinary powers, defence budgets and fast growth in the marketplace – all of this is packed into 1 neat story:
It was Iran.
And erstwhile people accept that, money starts to circulate.
Whether the missiles attributed to Iran were fired at Iran's initiative or with his consent is simply a question that authoritative sources have not bothered to give an accurate answer. Those who benefit financially from this do not show a peculiar desire to address this issue.
“Closer”
In November 2025, erstwhile Saudi prince Mohammed bin Salman arrived in Washington for a gathering with Trump, there was besides a 94-year-old Larry Silverstein who did not hold any authoritative position in the United States' trade policy, along with Tal Kerret, who deliberately did not specify the nature of the announced initiative: it could have been Silverstein's improvement investment in Saudi Arabia, or a contract concerning the campus of the University of fresh York in the Persian Gulf. You don't take the man who rebuilt Ground Zero to the geopolitical summit as a gadget for conversation. Unless it is.
Trump is the key figure in this story. It was for his political task Lutnick paid $75 million, it was Kushner who built, and Trump revived diplomacy in the Gulf region, and it was he who stood by the 94-year-old planet Trade Center developer during a gathering with a man who controls a wealth fund greater than the GDP of most countries.
Trump did not invent the financial accounts described in this article. It provided a government structure that allowed them to be implemented on a large scale: the regulatory environment, standardisation diplomacy and the composition of the cabinet that transforms private capital relations into political results. In the language of the contracts he has made throughout his life, he is simply a “closer”.
Plans preceding demolition
The symmetry between the events of September 11 and the current situation is inscribed in the way these men talk of themselves. Lutnick refers straight to her. Silverstein's full public identity is based on her. A communicative of catastrophic demolition followed by patient, disciplined reconstruction, funded by organization capital, implemented by trusted developers, supported by military ties and access to political circles, for 2 decades and on 2 continents proved to be an highly resilient business model.
Same script. Same players. Different geography, different destruction. Plans, as they say, gotta do with each another before the demolition..
INFO: https://morganc000.substack.com/p/the-usual-architects (translation: AI, possible errors; in the first plenty of photos and links)
