Friday, August 12, 2011

Ambassador Daniel Shapiro Goofs It

JPost calls out new US Ambassador Danny Shapiro on his interview replies on Jay Pollard.

Here.

Despite the importance of the issue to Israelis, it would have been understandable had Shapiro diplomatically declined to address such a sensitive matter. But that’s not what he did.  In bypassing the questions, Shapiro passed the buck and called Pollard’s fate “an issue for the American legal system.”

If only it were so...

...Shapiro is different. His status as the president’s most trusted adviser on the Middle East predates Obama’s election. As an expert on US-Israel relations, he should know better.

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He started off on the wrong foot.

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