Greenblatt may stay in the role until the publication of the long-delayed plan, which is now due to come out some time after Israeli elections on 17 September, reports say.

He has been one of the main designers of the Deal of the Century, about who Trump wrote “Jason Greenblatt, the official in charge of President Donald Trump’s Middle East peace plan, is departing the White House,” on Thursday.

“After almost 3 years in my Administration, Jason Greenblatt will be leaving to pursue work in the private sector. Jason has been a loyal and great friend and fantastic lawyer,” the US President wrote in a series of posts on Twitter.

Fatah, formerly the Palestinian National Liberation Movement, has also reacted to the American official’s resignation. Calling it ‘admission of failure’ for the White House’s much-delayed Israeli-Palestinian peace plan.

Some political analysts believe that his resignation will be a heavy blow to the Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu, since he was hopeful to benefit some advantages from the implementation of the American plan.

The ‘Deal of the Century’ is an American plan in which Jerusalem and the occupied districts of the West Bank where Zionist settlements are built will be completely delivered to the occupying regime and the Palestinians will be abandoned from returning to their lands. The plan also includes preventing the Palestinians from their right to return to their homeland, which is recognized legal by UN Security Council Resolution 4.

For no doub,t Greenblatt’s resignation is related to the failure of the ‘Deal of the Century’ and implementation of it because of the existing disputes about its sections which are fully in favor of the Zionist regime.

In fact, the plan was still born from the beginning and had not the capacity to be implemented despite the US efforts, supports and propaganda.

Weak participation of the deal’s parties besides Palestinian groups and movements attending the workshop held in Manama, Bahrain, on June 25–26, 2019 is another proof for the lack of the practicality and efficiency of the American plan.

Greenblatt’s resignation could also be a result of disputes between the US government and Benjamin Netanyahu’s actions before the Knesset election to re-attach part of the West Bank to the occupied territories to ensure his election victory.

The United States and its regional allies, especially Bahrain and Saudi Arabia, initially tried their best to  persuade Palestinians and some other countries, such as Jordan, which play an important role in ‘Deal of Century’, via making some promises to them or bribe them but could not succeed due to the large disagreements with the plan and its anti-Palestinian notions.

By the present time, Palestinian groups besides many Islamic countries, including Iran, have opposed the plan repeatedly stating that’ the Deal of the Century’ will never be implemented.

In any case, Greenblatt seems to be the first victim of this plan’s inefficiency, and in near future will come the resignation of other US and Zionist officials. Although it cannot be said that the plan has been completely eliminated and destroyed but resignation of one of its most prominent engineers indicates the existence of internal disputes within the US government about it.

It seems that the plan will never be implemented.

The Trump peace plan, also known as the Deal of the century, is an American peace proposal intended to resolve the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. The plan was authored by a team led by Senior Advisor to the President of the United States Jared Kushner.

The plan is divided into two parts, an economic portion and a political portion. On June 22, 2019, the Trump administration released the economic portion of the plan, titled “Peace to Prosperity”, containing two pamphlets of 40 and 96 pages each that are filled with financial tables and economic projections. The political portion is yet to be released.

Development of the plan began in November 2017, led by Jared Kushner, chief negotiator Jason Greenblatt, deputy national security adviser Dina Powell, and ambassador David Friedman.

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The family of Donald Trump and Jared Kushner formulated and compiled the ‘Deal of Century’ Plan according to the family agreement since Palestinian and Israeli sides have different imaginations of the Deal. In the process of formation of the ‘Deal of Century’, they [Trump and Kushner] considered the Palestinian issue as a personal and family issue. By calculating that Jared Kushner is Jewish and his wife is also Jewish and U.S. President Donald Trump is also interested in Israel. So, Palestinian issue can have a family solution. It is not important that the differences between Palestinians and Israelis are a difference in the width of history and in the extent of ideological differences.

In formulation of the ‘Deal of Century’, both Trump and Kushner did not pay attention to this issue that resolving problem of Israel with the Islamic countries is not the problem that is confined or limited only to the United States or Israel. From the political point of view, the issue is not even comprehensible for them [Trump and Kushner] that, despite all international efforts and political initiatives taken in the recent decades, resolving this crisis has become more complicated every year.

The Trump family should understand this issue that situation in Palestine is tied with the Resolution 242 of the United Nations inked in 1967, stipulating that Israel must withdraw from the Golan Heights, Jordan River, Gaza Strip, and the West Bank. On the other hand, the resistance of Palestinian people, which began with the throwing of stone, has now been turned into resistance with the power of deterrence that owns pinpointing rockets and missiles.

Even if the Palestinians relinquish their inalienable rights [that will not ignore it definitely], the future of Bait Al Muqaddas (Jerusalem), as the first Qibla of Muslims and the Ascendant of the Holy Prophet of Islam (S) as well as Palestinian citizenship within a ‘geographical area under Israeli mandate’ will turn the Palestinian problem from a territorial problem into an ideological and trans-regional problem. Such a situation would add to the desire Palestinians for more resistance and also would confront Israel with new trans-regional political and armed groups as well.

Jared Kushner unveiled the plan of ‘Deal of Century’ for representatives of Arab and European countries in Manama, capital of Bahrain, on June 25, 2019. In this initiative plan, Kushner considered economic solution as ‘alternative’ of political solution for ending the conflict between the two parties [Palestine and Israel]. In the opening remarks of the ‘Deal of Century’, he clearly put the value of land and territory of Palestine and its identity at $52 billion. By insulting the Palestinians and their struggles, he [Kushner] called Palestinians as people who have lived without understanding what the peace means.

In the plan of ‘Deal of Century’, Kushner defines Palestine as land and territory which is confined to a geographical area without a nation, government, army and also conceptual boundaries. Moreover, in his defined project, Kushner said that Palestine is an area in the West Bank and Gaza Strip that are connected with each other through railway. This area is supposed to be managed and administered by multinational companies whose staff are from the people of Palestine under the strict supervision of the United States and Israel.
In Kushner’s plan, people of Palestine have been supposed as ‘unable, unhealthy’ people and emphasized, “We need a healthy economy and healthy people for empowering them [Palestinian people].”

The ‘government and accountability of the government towards people’ have been highlighted in formulation of the ‘Deal of Century’, while Palestinian land and territory and also Palestinian government have not been taken into consideration. In this Plan, it has only been emphasized that Palestine was established through foreign investment. In formulation of ‘Deal of Century’, Kushner has considered Palestinian land as a free trade zone than a state with clear-cut government, nation and identity. The “Deal of Century” is about turning the Palestinian nation and people into an Israeli-led development project.

In Kushner’s plan of ‘Deal of Century’, share of Palestinian people in empowerment and reconstruction of Palestine has been considered ‘negligible and insignificant’. In this plan, share of Palestinian people to create equality and justice in the newly-established companies and lending facilities has been considered just $100 million out of $52 billion that is supposed to be put available to U.S. companies.

Now, the “Deal of Century” was unveiled in Bahrain Conference with $52 billion investment of Trump’s family to resolve Palestinian problem. However, it should be considered that what achievements this plan would bring about for Palestine, Israel and other countries if the plan is succeeded. The “Deal of Century” will resolve the problem of Resolution 242 for Israel, allowing Tel Aviv, capital of Israel, to legalize its settlements with the geographical privileges it receives.

Under the Plan, Israel can maintain its border security more than before. In addition, risk of outbreak of a civil war, from withdrawing the areas that are home to hundreds of thousands of Jews, will also be removed.

From the United States point of view, recognizing Al Quds as capital of Israel and relocation of embassies of other countries to Jerusalem (Al Quds) is raised and it is not supposed that a state named ‘Palestine’ will be recognized as the capital of Al Quds.

The United States believes that “Deal of Century” should create a strong barrier against Iran’s expansionism and must secure interests of U.S. and Israel in the region.

Arab countries should pay $50 billion to U.S. and Israeli companies with regard to Kushner’s plans and prosperity of Palestine.

In Manama Conference, Kushner emphasized, “After ceding their land and territory, Palestinians can export their traditional foods, which have unique tastes and flavors, along with their handicrafts to the world markets.”

After the plan of “Deal of Century’ was unveiled it was even criticized by the U.S. President Trump and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.

In media circles and public opinion of the United States, this plan has also been nicknamed as “Waste of Time”.

Although “Deal of Century” succeeded to convene representatives of Arab and Israeli countries in Warsaw and Manama conferences, these meetings have not so far produced positive results.

* Author: Mohammad Ghaderi , Tehran Times editor in chief 

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The Times, which spoke with five current and former Deutsche Bank employees, also said the nature of the transactions “was not clear,” though the report added that at least some of them involved “money flowing back and forth with overseas entities or individuals, which bank employees considered suspicious.”

Executives at Deutsche Bank, however, rejected the advice of their specialists, according to the Times, which reported that the recommendations were never filed with the Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network.

Former employee Tammy McFadden said she was terminated last year after raising concerns about the bank’s practices.

“You present them with everything, and you give them a recommendation, and nothing happens,” she said, adding that it is their way. “They are prone to discounting everything.”

The report is significant in part because Deutsche Bank has been one of the few big banks willing to lend money to the Trump Organization in recent years. Trump’s businesses have borrowed more than $300 million from Deutsche to finance a golf course in Florida and hotels in Chicago and Washington, according to financial disclosures and public filings from 2012 to 2015.

Trump is already embroiled in another scandal involving his refusal to produce his tax returns.

Democrats want his returns as part of their inquiry into possible conflicts of interest posed by his continued ownership of extensive business interests, both before and after his inauguration as president in 2016.

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