The Biden administration is seriously considering appointing former US ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro as a Middle East envoy, the Washington Post reported Friday.
The role is likely to involve the diplomatic relations that were a hallmark of the Abraham Accords, Israel’s normalization agreements with the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Bahrain, Sudan and Morocco that were formalized under the Trump administration, the report said.
Several people familiar with the discussions told the Washington Post that Shapiro has accepted an offer to join the Biden administration in a Mideast role, although some sources apparently named different positions that the former diplomat was under consideration for.
Shapiro was ambassador to Israel from July 2011 until the start of the Trump administration over four years ago.
Read more at Times of Israel.
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Shapiro was an Obama lackey. He was terrible for Israel. He always equivocated Israel defending themselves, with the Palestinian terrorists trying to murder as many innocent Israelis as possible! To this day, Dan has not condemned the Palestinians for the brutal murder of 13 year old Yaffa Ariel! Biden is being mislead over here, like almost every other decision Obama 2.0 puts before him
equivocated s/b excoriated
Another’s Obama admin…
How many lives did moving the embassy save. Trump did it for the evangelicals. How many lives did the iron dome save. Obama gave Israel the Iron dome. How many lives did the iron dome save. (Yes I know everything comes from Hashem)Hakoros hatov only applies to people you approve of. Such hypocrisy. SHAPIRO IS A REAL MENTSCH.