Posted on 10/19/2023 5:38:47 PM PDT by Mariner
President Joe Biden’s approach to the ongoing violence in Israel and Palestine is fueling mounting tensions at the U.S. government agency most involved in foreign policy: the State Department.
Officials told HuffPost that Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and his most senior advisers are overlooking widespread internal frustration. Some department staff said they feel as if Blinken and his team are uninterested in their own experts’ advice as they focus on supporting Israel’s expanding operation in Gaza, where the Palestinian militant group Hamas is based.
“There’s basically a mutiny brewing within State at all levels,” one State Department official said.
Since Hamas’ Oct. 7 terror attack on Israel, fighting in the region has killed more than 4,000 people, and Israel is preparing a ground invasion of Gaza that is expected to claim tens of thousands of additional lives.
Biden and Blinken say they want to help Israel decisively defeat Hamas, but that they do not want to see suffering among ordinary Gazans or a broader regional conflict. Both have recently visited Israel, and Blinken is prioritizing an attempt to open the Gaza-Egypt border to allow humanitarian aid into the besieged region and let some civilians out.
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Unfortunately for them, the electorate is united in their support of Israel.
Sucks to be them.
Biden appointed an entire administration with Israel and America hating Marxists. I hope they all destroy themselves.
Mutiny? When faced with mutiny, the Captain orders the mutineers hanged.
Anyone who thinks that Biden and his team want anything but death to Israel are living in a delusion.
Full of Ivy league pencil necks.
I was pleasantly surprised to see that Biden didn’t insist that the Israelis use electric tanks.
The anti-Israel contingent will feel so much better if they just resign. Bye y’all!
This is a contest between Dumb and Dumber.
You know what they all should do. They should all at the same time tomorrow submit their letters of resignation at the same time!
The State Department is the deep state. These are the career bureaucrats that have been undermining the United Stated for decades.
Indeed he did and indeed I hope they do!
It’s best not to listen to those “experts.”
Not that the others are any better.
Don’t give Jenny GrandMole, The Bimbo of Energy, any ideas.
This can’t be.
The Deep State keeps telling us there is no Deep State.
These are the same experts at State that “knew” moving the US Embassy to Jerusalem would be dangerous.
I hope they all go.
These would be the same experts who wanted to convene a committee to study why the Arabs hated us so much after the twin towers were blown up.
The US and UK State Departments have always been havens for leftys and homos Though US State Department has gone all in on the gay agenda these days. They were one of the first in on “celebrating” gay pride days (now a BS pride month) and flying the LGBT flags on their DC buildings.
Now they blow tens and tens of millions on funding LGBT NGOs in foreign nations. I am still waiting for them to appoint a gay-Trans- or lezzie ambassador to a Muslim nation.
Not being Donald Trump, does not count as accomplished and smart.
I was pleasantly surprised to see that Biden didn’t insist that the Israelis use no tanks at all, or insist that the Israelis send in social workers to less the hostilities.
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