Ari Ben-Menashe, who has accused the late Jeffrey Epstein of being an Israeli agent and who was the arms dealer who was implicated in the 1980s Iran–Contra scandal, has registered as a foreign agent to lobby the Trump administration on Gaza, according to a new Justice Department filing I obtained.

Menashe, who says he once spent a decade in the “innermost circles of Israeli intelligence,” is being paid $300,000 to promote Palestinian real estate mogul Samir Hlaileh (Hulileh) as the next president of Gaza.

Businessman Hlaileh is a hotel developer who says he has been working for years on a “master plan” to rebuild Gaza. His plan sounds remarkably similar to the remaking of Gaza that Donald Trump first described on February 4, when the president said he envisioned a “Riviera of the Middle East.”