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Stunning State Department Memo Warns Diplomats: No Gaza 'De-Escalation' Talk
The Huffington Post ^ | Oct 13, 2023 | Akbar Shahid Ahmed

Posted on 10/13/2023 1:49:56 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican

As Israel escalates its attacks on Gaza, the State Department is discouraging diplomats working on Middle East issues from making public statements suggesting the U.S. wants to see less violence, according to internal emails viewed by HuffPost.

In messages circulated on Friday, State Department staff wrote that high-level officials do not want press materials to include three specific phrases: “de-escalation/ceasefire,” “end to violence/bloodshed” and “restoring calm.”

The revelation provides a stunning signal about the Biden administration’s reluctance to push for Israeli restraint as the close U.S. partner expands the offensive it launched after Hamas ― which rules Gaza ― attacked Israeli communities on Oct. 7.

(Excerpt) Read more at huffpost.com ...


TOPICS: Israel
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To: dartuser
It’s an election year with Dems failing miserably on all fronts ... this is merely to give the illusion that the Biden administration has any aptitude for foreign policy competence ... which they do not.

Exactly.

21 posted on 10/13/2023 2:16:18 PM PDT by piytar (Do NOT forget Ashli Babbit!)
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To: dartuser
It’s an election year with Dems failing miserably on all fronts ... this is merely to give the illusion that the Biden administration has any aptitude for foreign policy competence ... which they do not.

Exactly.

22 posted on 10/13/2023 2:16:18 PM PDT by piytar (Do NOT forget Ashli Babbit!)
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To: MinorityRepublican
As Israel escalates

LeftSpeak definition: Escalate (v) Any military action or preparation taken by These United States, or their allies.

Syn: Provoke, provocation.

23 posted on 10/13/2023 2:18:04 PM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: MinorityRepublican

The deep state first and foremost supports unending violence because it’s how they launder their dirty money.


24 posted on 10/13/2023 2:21:01 PM PDT by DouglasKC
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To: MinorityRepublican

The administration is hoping IDF is walking into a trap. Whatever their intentions, they are not altruistic.


25 posted on 10/13/2023 2:24:07 PM PDT by KingLudd
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To: ModelBreaker

“The administration needs the secular Jewish vote to win...”

An extremely germane observation.


26 posted on 10/13/2023 2:25:40 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: MinorityRepublican

Israel is taking Hamas out. Period. It’s a war. No time to leisurely relocate, build new housing and facilities. Just get the hell out of the way. Palestinians voted for these demons.


27 posted on 10/13/2023 2:25:51 PM PDT by yldstrk (Bingo! We have a winner!)
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To: KingLudd

Nah. There’s a schism in the Democratic Party. You have many secular Jews who are reliable Democrats. Then you have more radical elements who may be anti-Israel. Obviously, the secular Jews have won the debate and Joe Biden needs their support.


28 posted on 10/13/2023 2:27:10 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

Deal with it, Akbar.


29 posted on 10/13/2023 2:28:35 PM PDT by yldstrk (Bingo! We have a winner!)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Say bye to Hamas.


30 posted on 10/13/2023 2:28:51 PM PDT by yldstrk (Bingo! We have a winner!)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Pathetic that it apparently took pics of decapitated babies to finally get this reaction. As if it’s the first time anything this bad has ever happened. Hello??!! This has always been going on! It’s just never been documented like this before. Gazans need to be eliminated. Then go after their Hezbollah brethren in Lebanon. Then it’s going to get difficult as their allied groups in Syria and Jordan are going to have to be hit. No more negotiations.


31 posted on 10/13/2023 2:32:21 PM PDT by mikey_hates_everything
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To: ModelBreaker

Blacks and tattooed whores are more important for winning. Who would secular Jews vote for if not Biden?


32 posted on 10/13/2023 2:32:55 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: MinorityRepublican

The democrat party wants to murder people any way they can. War is as good of a way to murder people as letting criminals run loose in cities.


33 posted on 10/13/2023 2:54:16 PM PDT by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

of course the deep state wants another forever war


34 posted on 10/13/2023 2:57:29 PM PDT by imabadboy99
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The Deep State wants WWIII. They trained/equipped HAMAS for their latest proxy war. While HAMAS is perfectly capable of killing children, the style of the attacks has been war provocation (calculated to cause war). What civilized nation won’t defend its babies? So the Deep State’s tools (HAMAS) get ‘help’ designing their attacks to be heinous beyond imagining and then the US gets to continue it’s continuous wars as the UKRAINE war winds down (is exposed as lost a long time ago) because the US Deep Staters and their international globalist colleagues need that American ‘foreign aid’ to keep flowing to our enemies, and those of Israel so they can continue to war upon us.


35 posted on 10/13/2023 3:30:55 PM PDT by ransomnote (IN GOD WE TRUST)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Gaza? Try the whole world!


36 posted on 10/13/2023 3:37:58 PM PDT by DownInFlames (P)
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To: monkeyshine

Gaza will become part of Isreal officially and west Bank plo will become a country


37 posted on 10/13/2023 3:48:19 PM PDT by pangaea6
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To: pangaea6

I don’t think so. Israel pulled all settlements out of Gaza circa 2005. Ariel Sharon, one of the most hawkish Israeli leaders ever, made the call. It’s not worth it militarily or civilian to try to rule over or live among such hostile territory.

They could build a moat.

First things first though. They will eliminate the Hamas/Gaza war machine. My guess, they will help the Palestinian Authority regain rule over Gaza. Let Palestinians with diplomatic ties around the world rule Palestinians. Hamas only has ties to terrorist nations and militias.

They will probably divide the land according to some agreement. Neither maximalist side will get what they want. I am one of those people who don’t think Israel should rule over the Palestinians and if the Palestinians want their independence they should declare it. But they never have. There is a reason for that. That reason may soon no longer have meaning.


38 posted on 10/13/2023 4:17:49 PM PDT by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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To: MinorityRepublican

I can’t believe something positive actually came out of our State Dept.


39 posted on 10/13/2023 4:45:49 PM PDT by livius
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To: MinorityRepublican
Why is this even posted?

Biden and his cronies in the government have been censoring free speech forever.

Nothing new under the sun.

40 posted on 10/13/2023 4:55:39 PM PDT by icclearly (Q)
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