You’re wrong, @mohamed_alabbar.
Eagle Hills deal is between you, Muthalib and Muizzu, not with Maldivian people.
Maldivian people are against it. They’ll vote in 2028 to remove Muizzu.
After the vote, this agreement will be terminated. Maldivians will say a resounding no to this Zionist project. We won’t become second class citizens in our country.
Muthalib is saying gov will get $3 billion in 10 years from Eagle Hills. It’s $25 million/month. Maafushi, run by locals, which is 32 times smaller than Rasmale, generates $6.08 million revenue/month.
🔹Maafushi: $1.57/SQFT
🔹Rasmale: $0.67/SQFT
Maafushi generates double😭😭😭
If updated Google satellite images of Gaza have not troubled you, see a doctor. Supporting mass killing and distribution on this scale is really a pathological issue.
If Eagle Hills is not stopped, they’ll turn Rasmale into the 2nd Jerusalem. There will be East Rasmale for ordinary Maldivians, then there will be West Rasmale for the rich. Foreigners will say “the Marina” and “our side”. This will be the first fact of daily life. It’ll be a two tiered city, a two tiered society.
By 2055 the first Rasmale born cohort is applying to universities. Some will have never spent a school year in a Dhivehi medium classroom. They will write “home - Maldives” on forms and mean the marina.
Maldivians will work the hotels, the marina services, retail, security, cleaning, some mid management. A smaller number sit in offices that look international. The highest apartments, the yacht berths, the school board, the hospital consulting rooms, those stay mostly foreign or foreign born, or foreign paid.
The two tier is not only nationality. A receptionist from Maldivian blocks checks in a resident who has lived there twenty years, whose children were born there in the marina, who complains about “the locals” blocking a road at prayer time. On Fridays, one part of the island empties toward the mosque in a way the waterfront treats as traffic. The other part treats Friday as brunch. Religion is the quiet fracture. Maldives is still a Muslim country. The waterfront learns the rules well enough to stay. Some residents convert on paper or in practice, most do not. They keep alcohol on boats. They keep Christmas trees indoors.
Every year the same argument returns in residents’ WhatsApp groups saying “we live here, we pay here, the rules should bend”.
Maldivians hear that as the beginning of the claim. A couple who bought in 2040 had a child in 2041. That child is 29 in 2070. He has an apartment. He has a school history, a doctor, friends, a football pitch, a first job, perhaps a partner who also grew up on the marina. He has never had another country as a daily reality.
He does not say “I am a guest”. He says “I grew up here”.
By the late 2070s the residents’ associations no longer talk only about bins and marina fees. They talk about schooling rights, hospital queues, the right to stay after a visa category changes, the right to pass the apartment to a child without a ministry file, the right to vote in local council matters that decide the street they walk. Muthalib and Muizzu are no longer around to justify it. They’re either in wheelchairs or dead.
Gov lines from 2026 are still on the website, no freehold, no automatic visa, no pathway from property to citizenship.
But daily life has moved ahead of the website. Again, like I said, Muthalib and Muizzu are not around. Some children of residents marry Maldivians. Those families become the hardest cases, cause the state then has to explain why one parent is the country and the other is a file. Some do not marry Maldivians and still want the same stability. Those families become the loudest cases.
Maldives was built as a small, Muslim, island nation with tourism as a guest system with foreigners on resort islands, Maldivians at home, a ferry/speedboat/sea plane between the two lives.
Rasmale’ collapses that distance. The guest lives next door, raises children next door, dies next door and the child keeps the keys.
So the fight, by 2060, the fight is:
🔹who this city is for
🔹whether a life spent here creates a right
🔹whether saying no to citizenship is sovereignty or a permanent underclass of people who are not leaving
🔹whether saying yes dissolves the idea of a Maldivian people on Maldivian land
Daily life sits under that fight. You feel it in the school gate, the hospital queue, the tone at the security desk, the way two teenagers look at each other on the same promenade and already know they are not in the same story.
When someone is born, live their whole life there and not know any other country, the rules Muthalib and Muizzu write in 2026 will no longer matter. A permanent settlement is already established and they’ll have a claim to the land.
Rafah, Palestine.
Rafah had a pop in 2023 of 280,000, approx the same as Cork City.
Like Cork it was over 1000 years old.
It's now gone.
Not a single intact building, football pitch, school or church.
Israel did this.
And today Ireland lines up to play football. 😑