# Amb. Dan Shapiro on the State of U.S.-Israel Ties Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/israel-policy-pod-1059263/amb-dan-shapiro-on-the-state-of-u-s-israel-ties Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/israel-policy-pod-1059263/amb-dan-shapiro-on-the-state-of-u-s-israel-ties.md Podcast: [Israel Policy Pod](https://stenobird.com/podcast/israel-policy-pod-1059263) Published: 2025-10-30T18:00:00+00:00 Episode link: https://www.buzzsprout.com/115663/episodes/18106243-amb-dan-shapiro-on-the-state-of-u-s-israel-ties.mp3 Audio file: https://www.buzzsprout.com/115663/episodes/18106243-amb-dan-shapiro-on-the-state-of-u-s-israel-ties.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/israel-policy-pod-1059263/episodes/amb-dan-shapiro-on-the-state-of-u-s-israel-ties Duration seconds: 4141 ## Resource On this week’s episode, Israel Policy Forum Policy Advisor and Tel Aviv-based journalist Neri Zilber hosts Dan Shapiro, former U.S. ambassador to Israel. They discuss the method and timing behind the Trump-brokered Gaza ceasefire deal, comparisons with the Biden administration’s diplomacy, whether senior U.S. officials are really coming to Israel to "Bibi-sit,” the prospects for Phase I of the deal holding, the challenges looming in Phase II, whether more regional normalization is really at h... ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/israel-policy-pod-1059263/episodes/amb-dan-shapiro-on-the-state-of-u-s-israel-ties/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/israel-policy-pod-1059263/amb-dan-shapiro-on-the-state-of-u-s-israel-ties.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.