respected by whom?

"Shibley Telhami, the Anwar Sadat Chair for Peace and Development at the University of Maryland and a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, told me that Feltman is “an accomplished and respected American diplomat.”"  Accomplished what and he is respected by whom? Oh, yes, if you mean respected by the Zionists at the Saban Center, than yes, he indeed is.  If you mean respected by the Saudi camp in Lebanon, than he is.  But the Arab world, it seems to me, is quite larger.