Biden Administration Flounders in Middle East With Inability to Name an Ambassador to Israel
By Shipwreckedcrew | May 17, 2021 8:30 AM ET
We are fast approaching the end of the fourth month of the Biden Administration, and there still has been no announcement of a nominee to fill the position of Ambassador to Israel.
President Trump announced during his transition that David Friedman would be his nominee to be Ambassador to Israel. The Senate held a confirmation hearing on February 16, 2017, and a vote of the Foreign Relations Committee took place on March 9 with Friedman’s nomination being sent to the Senate floor 12-9. Friedman was confirmed by the Senate on March 23.
That process demonstrated the importance that the Trump Administration placed on the relationship between the United States and Israel.
Three weeks ago it was reported that former State Department official Robert Nides was in line to be the Biden Administration’s nominee.
Among Obama Administration State Department alums – he was deputy secretary of state for management and resources – Nides was considered a pro-Israel voice, and someone the Israelis often turned to in the Obama Administration to have their voice heard.
Israel and Hamas have been engaged in a hot – and growing hotter – shooting war in and around Gaza for a week, yet no nominee to represent the United States in Jerusalem has yet been named.
And that might be a big part of the problem.
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