State Department Staffers Sign Letter Accusing Israel Of War Crimes | Eastern North Carolina Now

    Publisher's Note: This post appears here courtesy of the The Daily Wire. The author of this post is Virginia Kruta.

    A number of State Department staffers joined with staffers from the Agency for International Development - 100 in total - in criticizing President Joe Biden's response to the war between Israel and the terrorist group Hamas.

    Israel declared a state of war with Hamas after terrorists breached the border on October 7, slaughtering 1,200 Israelis - most of them civilians - and kidnapping more than 200, taking them into Gaza.

    According to an Axios report published on Monday, a five-page internal memo referred to as a dissent cable was "organized by a junior diplomat" and accused Biden of failing to deescalate the situation when Israel began to retaliate against Hamas - in addition to accusing Israel of committing war crimes in Gaza.

    The dissent cable was written by Sylvia Yacoub - identified by Axios as a foreign affairs officer in the Bureau of Middle East Affairs - who criticized Biden directly via X in early November. "You are providing significantly more military assistance to the government that is indiscriminately attacking innocent Gazans .... you are complicit in genocide @POTUS," she said.

    Claiming that Israel had cut off electricity to Gaza and restricted aid, the memo alleged that those actions - and the Israel Defense Forces' targeted strikes on Hamas leaders and weapons' stores - "all constitute war crimes and/or crimes against humanity under international law."

    "Yet we have failed to reassess our posture towards Israel. We doubled down on our unwavering military assistance to the (Israeli government) without clear or actionable redlines," the memo continued, arguing that Israel's response to Hamas should have caused the United States to adjust its policy.


    "Members of the White House and (the National Security Council) displayed a clear disregard for the lives of Palestinians, a documented unwillingness to de-escalate, and, even prior to October 7, a reckless lack of strategic foresight," the memo continued, going on to chastise the Biden administration for refusing to take the word of the Hamas-controlled Gaza Health Ministry when it came to assessing the number of casualties.

    Secretary of State Antony Blinken addressed the dissent within the State Department, saying in a memo to staffers, "I know that for many of you, the suffering caused by this crisis is taking a profound personal toll. The anguish that comes with seeing the daily images of babies, children, elderly people, women, and other civilians suffering in this crisis is wrenching. I feel it myself. Some people in the Department may disagree with approaches we are taking or have views on what we can do better."

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26 days after the October 7th Terror attacks on Israel, where over 1400 Jewish men, women and children were gruesomely murdered, and hundreds more made hostage: Should the Biden /Harris administration finally state that the administration's primary Middle East negotiating partner, Iran, is behind the funding and strategy of the aggressors, the Hamas Terrorists, or continue to take the more moderate position of "Don't," which is clearly not working?

  Yes, name Iran as the funding /strategy culprit, and begin to enforce the President Trump era sanctions to END Iran's ability to prosecute this war against Israel and the United States.

  No, Iran is a valuable partner in the motives of the Biden / Harris administration, and must not be named as the culprit and our enemy.

  I have larger concerns just to survive in this economy.

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poll#209

In the minds of many, since January 20, 2021, the World has become far less safe in every theater of conflict, beginning with the attack of Israel by Iran /Hamas, so the question becomes: What caused this Worldwide calamity of extreme geopolitical dysfunction, and what will correct it?

  Joe Biden is the cause of this frightening Worldwide situation, and it will end when a Republican is elected president.

  This delayed Worldwide dysfunction and constant conflict is all Donald Trump's fault, as it is with everything that occurs going forward, and long before the man ever became the 45th president..

  Joe Biden is the "root cause" of this frightening Worldwide situation, and it will end when former President Donald John Trump is elected president.

  In the imitable words of Alfred E. Newman: "What, me worry?"

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poll#212

A majority of Americans still believe in OUR 1st Amendment guaranteed Freedom of Speech; however, at what bold point does the constitutional right to Free Speech becomes unabashed anti-Semitic Hate Speech, and while it should possibly be tolerated on our college campuses, and on the streets of mostly Sanctuary Cities, these events should be rightfully observed and scrupulously monitored ... or, not? What is your true opinion of when too much of enough is just too much, or not?

  The answer to Free Speech I don't agree with is more, and incredibly robust Free Speech.

  There is a point when Free Speech becomes counter productive to sustaining a peaceful society.

  Free Speech should only be tolerated if it represents the status quo of the highly educated orthodoxy.

  Early in life, I learned to speak only when I am spoken to.

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