The Wall Street Journal stated that U.S. President Joe Biden is facing resistance from some countries’ inner circles over his support for Israel’s war against the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas).
The conservative newspaper, known for its support for Israel, said in an editorial on the editorial board that some news reports showed that at least 500 appointees and staff members at 40 agencies, including the National Security Council and the Justice Department, sent messages to Letter to Biden asking him to call for a ceasefire in Gaza and a “de-escalation” between Israel and Hamas.
The newspaper said the signatories of the letter, which the newspaper described as anonymous but courageous, said: “Americans do not want U.S. forces to be drawn into another costly and futile war in the Middle East.”
The editorial board said in an editorial that more than 1,000 USAID employees reportedly signed a similar letter.
“We believe that unless the U.S. government demands an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, further catastrophic human tolls are inevitable,” the letter said. The letter also said the signatories “fear for our personal safety and the possibility of losing our jobs.” The authors withheld their names.
Commenting on what is said in the above letter on behalf of the editorial board, the newspaper believes that if the signatories do not lose their jobs, or rather if they fail to support the president’s agenda and resign “with dignity”, then Democracy can be meaningless. The newspaper added that the complainers it described were part of the workforce.
The newspaper emphasized that the function of the executive branch is to implement the policies of the head of state, not to force him to change policies through letters and leaks from anonymous signatories.
However, the newspaper acknowledged that dissatisfaction with Biden’s policies toward Israel was also spreading at the State Department in the form of objections to the cable. In light of the opening article, perhaps the difference between the two letters mentioned above is that the latter is a natural channel for channeling internal criticism.
Part of the problem here, from the editorial board’s perspective, is that the protections for civil servants are so broad that it’s difficult to hold a dissident career bureaucrat accountable, let alone fire him. This gives them a degree of impunity when they want to incite opposition to the policies of an elected president.
The Wall Street Journal editorial board criticized this behavior by state employees, charging that this is not the way a democratic government should operate.
Commenting on the matter, French newspaper Le Monde said that the particularity of this internal turmoil came from multiple leaks to the media, which showed a lack of internal discipline.
In this regard, the newspaper stated that, for example, the Axios website published the contents of an internal email sent by Sylvia Yacoub, a young diplomat working in the Office of Middle East Affairs, in which she tried to collect signatures and that she received It has reached around 100 signatures in support of a text that specifically accuses Joe Biden of “participating in genocide” for his staunch support of Israel.
According to the Huffington Post website, amid these protests, Le Monde said that on October 26, Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with some critical diplomats.
“Le Monde” commented on what happened, saying that it is very difficult to measure the extent of protests outside official circles, but according to the newspaper, this dissatisfaction has led to a rebalancing of the official US position in recent weeks, and the plight of Palestinian civilians has been even more affected. Pay attention.
