More than 400 US officials from 40 government agencies have sent a letter to President Biden criticizing his unconditional support for Israel’s war in Gaza in the latest example of dissent from within the US government.
“We call on President Biden to urgently demand a ceasefire; and to call for de-escalation of the current conflict by securing the immediate release of the Israeli hostages and arbitrarily detained Palestinians; the restoration of water, fuel, electricity and other basic services; and the passage of adequate humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip,” the letter reads.
According to The New York Times, the majority of the signatories to the letter are political appointees who work throughout the government, including in the Department of Justice, the FBI, and the National Security Council. Some signatories helped get Biden elected and said they were worried his support for the onslaught on Gaza was opposed by many Democratic voters.
The letter says that the “overwhelming majority of Americans support a ceasefire,” citing a poll from Data For Progress that found 66% of voters believe the US should push for a ceasefire, including 80% of Democrats. “Furthermore, Americans do not want the US military to be drawn into another costly and senseless war in the Middle East,” the letter says.
President Biden and his top aides have called for “pauses” in the fighting but refuse to use the term “ceasefire,” demonstrating that they are committed to continuing support for the Israeli war, which has killed at least 11,000 Palestinians, including over 4,500 children.
Since October 7, the US has shipped weapons to Israel on a near-daily basis and is providing special operations support, including surveillance drone flights over Gaza. Besides the new letter, Biden’s full-throated support for the brutal war has drawn three dissent memos from State Department employees and an open letter signed by more than 1,000 employees of the US Agency for International Development (USAID).
Right on!
The MSM really buried this story.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/11/13/ocdl-n13.html
Thousands rally in Israel demanding Netanyahu’s resignation as government seeks to crush dissent
Demonstrators in Caesarea, where Netanyahu has his home, demanded his resignation. In Jerusalem, around 1,000 people took part in a silent demonstration in support of the hostages. Demonstrators in the mixed Arab and Jewish city of Haifa called for a new government, saying they refused to wait for the war to end. A convoy then drove down to join the demonstration in Caesarea. Other rallies took place in Beer Sheva and Eilat.
The writers and pundits from the MSM all have graduate degrees in lying and hiding the truth about what Israel and the USA are doing and have done.
Let’s remember this, when predictable blowback to our physical and infrastructural security triggers shock and rage in the USA, followed a by new spiral of end-imperial violence much worse than 9-11 and the “War on Terror”.
These approaching horrors, and the disgraceful collapse of the US’ reputation and economy would not happen so soon and devastatingly, if marketeers had not taken over US journalism, and if the people of the “United” States had not been infotained, dumbed-down and divided by this greed-driven corporate-contrived mockery of informed democracy.
This lying major media will be to blame- but also all of us who couldn’t be bothered to pay attention to the slaughter happening in Palestine in our name, nor to what the rest of the world will certainly think and do about “Pax” Americana, much faster than we are conditioned to perceive and respond to with reason and humility.
What is MSM?
Everything most convenient to see and hear in the USA about current events.
main stream media
thank you, lily, for sharing this important news.
as i understand it, the limitation of this positive development = from an anti-war pov – is that many demonstrators calling for a hostage-focus simultaneously support the bombing – whether to punish gazans, or as means of freeing hostages.
put another way – hostage families/groups span the political spectrum, they don’t have a single pov or critique of israeli action
but yes, n. is so blamed that many reject the ‘temporary emergency govt’ to ‘defend israel’ – and want to get rid of him now
Good. Very good.
But note that these sentences seem to contradict each other:
Is this a copy editing glitch or do I just not understand?
IMHO in the future President Joseph Robinette Biden previously known as the Senator from MasterCard shall be known as the Senator and President from Israel.
Well, one of the senators from Israel.
If polls were phrased to elicit consideration of the blowback surely ahead, opposition to support for Israel would be completely overwhelming
The REAL reason U.S. and Israel invaded Gaza? Follow the money and you will find the root cause of many conflicts.
A large natural gas deposits in discovered in the territorial waters of Palestinians living in Gaza.
So Hamas commits a massacre in order to allow Israel to take Gaza gas. Really?
Evidence is now emerging that up to half the Israelis killed were combatants; that Israeli forces were responsible for some of their own civilian deaths; and that Tel Aviv disseminated false ‘Hamas atrocities’ stories to justify its devastating air assault on Palestinian civilians in Gaza.
You can believe what ever you like. I saw a tape of a civilian shot while in his car,then pulled out and stomped into jelly.Women bleeding from their crotches.
https://youtu.be/rTQcjyhPOIk?feature=shared
Ouch!! There’s an inconvenient truth.
Was this produced by the Voice of America.One of your major problems is you listen and only hear the wrong sources.
You sound like a MAGA hardcore fan.
You are either that ignorant or just a good troll.
Branding WI as MAGA is hilarious.
F-ing liar !
Shhh, we dont talk about Hamas crimes here. This is antiUS, I meant, antiwar 🤷🏽♂️
https://www.planetcritical.com/p/everybody-wants-gazas-gas
it makes perfect sense to me that Israel would follow the money like their daddy,the USA.
It is apartheid ethno-nationalism that is unsustainable in Palestine, or anywhere in the modern world. Wealth-hoarders efficiently exploit resources most everywhere, while subverting the lives of their underclasses (including in the USA).
Capitalistic exploitation will persist longer than Israel, which was founded upon a more blatant injustice, and will inevitably fall along with the expiring hubristic settler-colonialist US empire suicidally propping it up.
Biden and Netanyahu are cementing their places in history as sociopathic war criminals.
400, 1,000, I don’t care if it were 400 million. Why would you think it would make any difference? “It’s a big club, and you ain’t in it.” – George Carlin
https://youtu.be/Nyvxt1svxso?si=RSA2gfeJMyT0Vdsl
Biden is scared witless of AIPAC and the Israeli Lobby. They dominate him
This might mean something if we actually had a government of by and for the people. But the US federal government is nothing more than an enforcement arm for the investor class, who happen to include in their numbers a large number of pro-Israeliers, so nothing will change and you’ll be lucky if you don’t lose your job or worse for speaking up. That’s why the only question I ask myself ever federal election is “will this candidate move us closer to or farther away from a collapse of the rotted national government.” The former get my vote, the latter don’t.
Donetsk in 2014-2015 looked exactly like Gaza today. Yatsenyuk and Poroshenko were left free to ethnically cleanse, mass murder and collectively punish the Donbass. We were all OK with that though right? Cos you know we just hate Russia so much.
In the Donbass we see what an appropriate response to ethnic cleansing, collective punishment, mass murder and genocide is…..ARMED RESISTANCE. The resistance against NATO in Ukraine has destroyed; 535 Aircraft, 254 helicopters, 8934 UAV’s, 441 Anti Aircraft systems, 13396 tanks inc. APC’s, 1184 multiple rocket launchers, 7105 field artillery and 15273 military automotive equipment. Approx. $1 Trillion of NATO hardware.
WW3 started in Ukraine in 2014 according to Jens Stoltenberg NATO Secretary General. The combined Western NATO nations overthrew the government in a violent bloody coup and installed Nazi’s in power.
The United States of Atrocities will choke on Moscow’s terms for peace in Ukraine. Make no mistake its a huge defeat for Nazism and NATO.
I was just wondering when the time for armed resistance will arrive in the US.
The US working class has been long and concertedly programmed for fratricide before revolution.
NATO is already at war with Russia, and Moscow is gearing up for a continental battle.
Corruption is the driver for this war. The American public is being robbed and Ukraine drained of its population while a relatively small number of individuals stuff their pockets with cash. They are making a killing.
Globalists and central bankers are profiting from the privatization and rebuilding of Ukraine into a “smart country” the model for the rest of the world.
Most likely learned from the Rothschilds, Rockerfellers how to play both sides and make a fortune regardless of which side wins.
Don’t forget the “RESISTANCE” also shot down Santa Clause last year thus destroying Christmas this year.
Good for them.
If they did that in Russia they’d be in jail for10 years in no time.
In Norway a person cannot even express an controversial opinion without it being labeled “hate speech” and being threatened with prosecution and a three year prison sentence. Same goes for most of the EU.
Glad to know not only are you a Ukrainian war correspondent but also know how the Russian judicial system works.
Not necessary, they may fall out a cheaply made high rise window. Or fly on a plane so poorly made that is breaks into 100 pieces at 30,000 feet.