Jan.12, 2016
Suggestion came four years before current US envoy Shapiro took strong stand against proposed NGO transparency law.
Even as US ambassador Dan Shapiro made clear in recent days the stifling effect the US Administration believes the proposed NGO transparency law could have on Israel’s democracy, one of his predecessors wrote an email to then US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton four years ago advocating the US back – and possibly work through NGOs – to foment non-violent Palestinian protests intended to get the Israeli government to move on the Palestinian issue.