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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Yup.. The majority of his supporters are pro-Isreal.
Like I said... Delusional.
Which party do you think all the anti-Israel people are in.
Which one employs Chinese and Iranian spies.
RE: BLINKEN’S STATEMENT:
IN ACCOUNTING, THAT EFFORT IS CALLED “PICKING THE FLY SHIT OUT OF THE PEPPER”
IIRC-—HILLARY WAS SEC OF STATE
High status belief at the Ivy League is anti-Israel leftism. Reinforced by the elite newspapers.
And that is what spreads to every institution in the country.
It doesn’t matter what the electorate wants. Whether it is pro-Israel or against gay marriage.
One has to keep in mind that State has been under communist control since 1935...
That, in 1940, was the fact that my Grandfather convinced me of when I was 7...
All subsequent history has certainly proved him correct...
Can you repeat yourself?
"The avalanche has begun. It is too late for the pebbles to vote."
(Kosh ~ Babylon 5)
It may be that the Palestinians in Gaza who are not terrorists have one chance: Revolt at risk of death. For this to work, Israel must bring back the cell phone coverage. If Israel roof taps a building, then the Pali's must get out regardless if Hamas tells them to stay or not. If Hamas kills those trying to get out of a building, at least there will be a video record. Perhaps that exposure of the evil of Hamas to its own people can be the beginning of the end for Hamas...
I wish this were true. There is undeniably a Hamas wing of the Dem party that is largely, for the moment, being down-played.
“You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.” -Ayn Rand-
Yup. She demanded that office so she could get some foreign policy cred for a subsequent run for the presidency. She is evil to the core.
“ Anyone who thinks that Biden and his team want anything but death to Israel are living in a delusion.”
Or maybe the State Dept is full of Hamas sympathizers
Bullshit!
Akbar Shahid Ahmed, no doubt is just yet another worm inside the federal government, amidst thousands, who supports Hamas no matter what or is, clandestinely, a card carrying member of Hamas.
Yahoo, liberal/socialism promoting garbage bin that it is, is just trying to make news favorable to THE LEFT.
Luttwak wrote "Israel's Intelligence Failure" on 08 October 2023. Here is the link:
Luttwak makes two strong points:
(1) Hamas deceived Israel by not participating in rocket launches in recent months against Israel.
(2) Israel reciprocated by re-opening 20,000 Israel-based jobs for Gaza workers.
I strongly disagree with Luttwak (and every other professional) who claims that the Hamas "land invasion" was a massive Israeli intelligence failure.
The alleged invasion was a murderous (and suicidal) incursion.
Hamas entered Israel at seven points. They advanced one mile or less at three points. Their deepest penetration was less than four miles - at the music festival.
I have not seen the exact Israeli death toll from the Hamas sudden rocket assault.
However, it is possible that close to 50% of the land invasion fatalities and hostages came from the music festival.
Hamas invaded Israel with 2,000 Suicide Soldiers.
1,500 of those Suicide Soldiers were killed.
NO military professional in the entire world predicted that Hamas would attack Israel with 2,000 Suicide Soldiers.
The State Department is the deep state. These are the career bureaucrats that have been undermining the United Stated for decades.
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YEP! State is full of idiot bureaucrats/LBGTs. We’ve had lame Secty’s in each of the recent Dem administrations: Kerry, Clinton and Blinken.
Trump had a great one! He didn’t go abroad to kiss ass!
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