From Dan Shapiro exits position as Abraham Accords envoy, takes Pentagon’s top Mideast role
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Dan Shapiro will replace Dana Stroul as the Pentagon’s most senior official responsible for the Middle East, vacating his role at the State Department where he served as Abraham Accords envoy.
Shapiro will now serve as deputy assistant secretary of defense for Middle East policy, the Pentagon announces in a statement about Stroul’s departure after nearly three years.
A former US ambassador to Israel, Shapiro had only rejoined the administration last June as Abraham Accords envoy. No announcement has been made regarding who might refill the position, which Congress is working to elevate to an ambassador-level post.
Efforts to expand the accords hit a major snag with the arrival of a hardline government in Israel, compounded by the war in Gaza.
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