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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 350

Jason Greenblatt

File: Former US Special Envoy to the Middle East, Jason Greenblatt, speaks at an OurCrowd investor summit in Jerusalem, February 13, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
May 26, 2023, 4:15 am
White House is alienating Gulf allies, says former Trump Middle East envoy
Jason Greenblatt, ex-Middle East special representative, says Biden making expansion of Abraham Accords harder, and gives money too easily to Palestinians
By Lazar Berman
Deborah E. Lipstadt, US Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism, speaks during her Senate Foreign Relations nomination hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, February 8, 2022. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
December 15, 2022, 4:47 am
‘Appalled’: US, Israel, Jewish groups slam UN official for past antisemitic rhetoric
Biden’s antisemitism envoy, US and Israeli missions to UN and congresswoman among those decrying Palestinian rights investigator after ToI reveals ‘Jewish lobby’ comments from 2014
By Luke Tress
Then-US president Donald Trump, center, is flanked by then-ambassador to Israel David Friedman, left, and then-senior adviser Jared Kushner in the Oval Office on August 12, 2020. (AP/Andrew Harnik)
February 10, 2022, 7:02 pm
In new book, Trump’s Israel envoy hammers 4 rocky years into a smooth path to peace
David Friedman’s memoir ‘Sledgehammer’ finds the former ambassador unsnarling years of broken diplomacy for a new Middle East, though others recall a less tidy narrative
By Jacob Magid
Illustrative: Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt speaks at the group's 2018 National Leadership Summit in Washington, D.C. (Michael Brochstein/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images/JTA)
September 5, 2021, 6:49 pm
ADL CEO apologizes ‘without caveat’ for opposing Islamic center near Ground Zero
Jason Greenblatt admits his organization mishandled its response to proposed Cordoba House, warns against rising Islamophobia
By PHILISSA CRAMER
US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman at the Western Wall on the final day of his tenure, January 20, 2021 (Courtesy)
February 8, 2021, 6:42 pm
No longer US ambassador, David Friedman is sticking to his sledgehammers
The ex-envoy maintains the last 4 years were an unequivocal success, thanks to the White House’s ‘inexperienced’ crew, which smashed precedent and forged a new path
By Lazar Berman
Jason Greenblatt, left, meeting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a visit to Jerusalem, on March 13, 2017. (Government Press Office)
June 26, 2020, 12:18 am
Ex-Trump envoy: ‘Unfair’ of settlers to rap Palestinian state envisioned by plan
Jason Greenblatt echoes sentiment voiced from White House officials frustrated by West Bank mayors’ personal attacks and criticism of peace proposal
By Jacob Magid
US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman (4th from right) tours the Efrat settlement with settler leaders on February 20, 2020. (Courtesy)
May 24, 2020, 3:06 am
How settler leaders may have scuttled a US plan for immediate annexation
Israeli mayors flew to DC for Trump plan rollout, believing US would back sovereignty within days, but 1 of them says colleague’s press release blasting proposal changed everything
By Jacob Magid
US Special Envoy Jason Greenblatt speaks at a conference in New York City, June 16, 2019. (Marc Israel Sellem/POOL)
February 26, 2020, 3:12 pm
Ex-Trump Middle East envoy Jason Greenblatt joins Israeli venture capital firm
OurCrowd says architect of US peace plan, who resigned from the administration in October, will be in charge of ‘building ties with the Middle East region’
By Ilan Ben Zion
US Special Envoy Jason Greenblatt speaks at a conference of Israel Hayom newspaper at Davidson Center in Jerusalem Old City, June 27, 2019 (Aharon Krohn/Flash90)
February 13, 2020, 1:34 pm
Next White House may reject peace plan, to Palestinians’ detriment — co-author
Jason Greenblatt warns that if traditional positions on conflict are readopted, ‘Israel will likely continue to thrive and the Palestinians will continue to suffer’
By Raphael Ahren
US President Donald Trump's envoy to the Middle East Jason Greenblatt, left, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu exchange greetings at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, July 12, 2017. (Haim Tzach/GPO)
January 14, 2020, 3:46 am
Trump’s ex-Mideast envoy isn’t sure Israelis and Palestinians ready for peace
After first public appearance since leaving White House, Jason Greenblatt speaks of his efforts to craft the Trump peace plan and interactions with Arab world as an Orthodox Jew
By Josefin Dolsten
Outgoing US Middle East envoy Jason Greenblatt is seen with successor Avi Berkowitz in an April 2019 photo. (Twitter)
January 7, 2020, 6:25 pm
Trump’s media-shy new peace envoy Berkowitz meets Israeli leaders
Presidential adviser’s first trip to region since replacing Jason Greenblatt is also the first senior US visit since Friday killing of top Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani
By Raphael Ahren
US Middle East Peace Envoy Jason Greenblatt at the Champions of Jewish Values International Awards gala at Carnegie Hall, in New York, on March 28, 2019. (Charles Sykes/Invision/AP)
November 20, 2019, 11:07 pm
Jason Greenblatt joins board of Republican Jewish Coalition
Former Trump peace envoy announces first engagement since leaving White House post
By JTA
Then-Mayor Nir Barkat visits the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Issawiya to inaugurate a new road. (Kobi Gideon/Flash90)
November 17, 2019, 12:24 pm
Barkat: US may adopt West Bank plan for 250,000 Palestinian jobs, Bible tourism
At Netanyahu’s request, Likud MK showed Kushner his ‘win-win’ proposal for 12 industrial zones, network of Biblical sites aimed at Evangelicals; Greenblatt, Friedman ‘like it’
By David Horovitz
Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir (R) speaks with Jason Greenblatt, the US president's assistant and special representative for international negotiations, during the Arab Summit in the Jordanian Dead Sea resort of Sweimeh on March 29, 2017. (AFP Photo/Khalil Mazraawi)
October 28, 2019, 11:25 am
Trump’s departing peace envoy hails ‘huge shift’ in neighbors’ ties with Israel
Jason Greenblatt acknowledges forthcoming peace plan may not be embraced immediately; stresses US is not judge or jury, ‘and we are not going to force anything on either party’
By Raphael Ahren
US Middle East Peace Envoy Jason Greenblatt at the Champions of Jewish Values International Awards gala at Carnegie Hall, in New York, on March 28, 2019. (Charles Sykes/Invision/AP)
October 20, 2019, 2:32 pm
US peace envoy Greenblatt said set to leave post at end of October
Architect of Trump peace plan had planned to stay on until its unveiling, but amid political deadlock in Israel appears to confirm early departure
By ToI Staff and Raphael Ahren
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