Daniel B. Shapiro
American diplomat
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Already confronting one open-ended conflict with Iran, with an overstretched Navy and a diminishing munitions stockpile, it’s unsurprising that he does not want to open this new front,
- said Dan Shapiro, a former top Middle East policy official in the Pentagon during the Biden administrationThe New York Timesnytimes.com/2026/09…
That said, the Trump administration needs to demonstrate much more determination to pressure the Israeli government to shut down this violence. They seem to want to avoid a clash with [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu ahead of the Israeli elections,
- Shapiro saidForeign Policyforeignpolicy.com/2026/08…
Ambassador Huckabee’s recent characterization of those engaged in violence against Palestinian civilians in the West Bank as ‘Israeli terrorists’ is accurate. He may have used Biblical allusions to address the perpetrators in language they might understand,
- Dan Shapiro, a former U.S. ambassador to Israel, told Foreign PolicyForeign Policyforeignpolicy.com/2026/08…
Returning personnel to missions that were partly evacuated suggests the administration believes the war is winding down,
- said Dan Shapiro, who was the U.S. ambassador to Israel during the Obama administration and a Department of Defense official focused on the Middle East during the Biden administrationThe New York Timesnytimes.com/2026/08…
The war in Iran didn’t just delay decisions on this, I think it has weakened the appetite of some of the countries involved,
- said Daniel Shapiro, a former deputy assistant secretary of defense for the Middle East in the Biden administrationHindustan Timeshindustantimes.com/world/news…
The protests popped up and the regime was seemingly on the rocks. [Netanyahu and Trump] believed it just needed a simple push and it would get them to topple,
- said Shapiro, now at the Atlantic Council think-tankIrish Timesirishtimes.com/world/middle…
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