State Department sees unprecedented flood of internal dissent memos over Gaza war
by Richard Hall
Apr 08, 2024
4 minutes
State Department staff sent at least eight internal dissent memos to express disagreement with US policy on Israel and Gaza during the first two months of the war, The Independent can reveal.
A further memo was sent last month from the US embassy in Jordan, warning of increasing instability across the region due to Israel’s ongoing war, according to a person familiar with the matter, bringing the total number to at least nine.
Such a high number of internal dissent memorandums — a formal process by which staff can express concerns internally to a policy — highlights the widespread opposition to the Biden administration’s support for Israel’s war in Gaza.
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