YERUSHALAYIM — Secretary of State Tony Blinken is considering tapping Dan Shapiro, the former U.S. ambassador to Israel, as the State Department’s point person for the Abraham Accords.
Creating the new State Department position would signal the Biden administration wants to give its efforts to expand and strengthen peace treaties that were brokered by the Trump administration a new push ahead of the 2024 presidential election.
It would also come as senior White House officials push for the normalizing of relations between Saudi Arabia and Israel.
The House of Representatives last month overwhelmingly approved a resolution supporting the strengthening of the Abraham Accords.
In February Rep. Richie Torres and several other Democratic and Republican lawmakers sponsored a bi-partisan bill that establishes the position of an envoy for the Abraham Accords at the State Department.
U.S. officials said Blinken still hasn’t made a final decision about whether to create the new post. One of the officials said that if created, it would be a senior adviser position and the scope of the work would be broader than the Abraham Accords.
Source: Hamodia
