Today US Secretary of State John Kerry appointed Daniel Rubenstein as a special US envoy to Syria, replacing now retired envoy Robert Ford. http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/us-names-new-special-envoy-for-syria/2014/03/17/bbcc483a-add0-11e3-b8b3-44b1d1cd4c1f_story.html
Daniel Rubenstein served as Consul General and Chief of Mission in Jerusalem from September 6, 2009 to August 2012, according to the Jewish Virtual Library. https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/daniel_rubenstein.html
To HFS analysts, the interesting point to this new Syrian appointment is not so much Daniel Rubenstein’s impeccable credentials as a US career diplomat as it is his impeccable reputation in the Jewish American community.
What do you think?
It’s seems an odd choice to my way of thinking. I wonder what the Syrians will think?