Daniel Shapiro, Columnist

All Signals Point Once Again to War in Gaza

Conditions that preceded past conflicts are all there. It just takes a spark.

March 30, 2017 at 6:10 AM UTC

Daniel Shapiro, who served as U.S. ambassador to Israel under President Barack Obama, is a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Institute for National Security Studies at Tel Aviv University.

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The next war in Gaza is coming.

In over five years as U.S. Ambassador to Israel, I found no issue more impervious to solutions than Gaza. We were constantly preventing, managing or responding to crises -- trying to head off terror attacks by Hamas and others, supporting Israel’s right to defend itself, negotiating ceasefires and working to alleviate human suffering.