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Revolt Brewing in White House Over U.S.
Policy Toward Israel

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Posted By: Dreadnought, 11/9/2023 10:36:24 AM

It's no secret that many younger members of the Biden administration are not happy with the president's policy of demonstrating strong support for Israel. Dozens of State Department members signed a "dissent cable" taking issue with the president's decided tilt in favor of the Israelis. Now, there's a growing revolt in the White House as many junior aides are griping about the pro-Israel bias of the president. “It has created great moral anxiety,” said one senior administration official. “But no one can say it because we all work at the pleasure of the president and he’s all in.”

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Reply 1 - Posted by: Dipi 11/9/2023 10:49:29 AM (No. 1595102)
You work at the pleasure of the Commander-in-Chief. If any of you don't like his policies, just resign and be done with it, period.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: Rotten in Denmark 11/9/2023 10:55:40 AM (No. 1595111)
Who the foxtrot do these underlings think they are? Get with program, get your ducks in a row and say yessir!!
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Reply 3 - Posted by: NorthernDog 11/9/2023 10:59:07 AM (No. 1595116)
The Democrat convention is in Chicongo next year. I wonder if we'll see a repeat of 1968 - but over supporting Hamas and Palestinian terrorists.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: john56 11/9/2023 10:59:38 AM (No. 1595117)
Gee, the only thing that Sleepy Creepy Crooked President Uncle Joe is doing that is at least somewhat correct, and his underlings are screwing it up. Happily, Bibi is in charge and isn't going to fall for this nonsense.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: jalo1951 11/9/2023 11:10:03 AM (No. 1595135)
Hamas started this war and Israel plans on finishing it. We have no right to make demands on Israel in any form. Hamas uses the people as human shields, they take the money and supplies earmarked for the people, they have been preventing people from leaving, the more people killed the more they use it as a propaganda tool. Hamas said they would never stop, there would be October 7th attacks forever. Believe them. Bomb the hell out of them. Bring them to their knees. And if these employees can't handle that info I suggest they leave and take up with the nut jobs on the street who have no idea what they are talking about. There are no prizes for being the most ignorant person in the room. If you need a Hamas safe space and a support camel I suggest you do it on your own time.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: slipstik 11/9/2023 11:10:31 AM (No. 1595136)
I completely fail to understand the antisemitism I see all around me. These people on the hate train are highly educated, supposedly bright stars in our political firmament., and yet they profess support for 13th century inbred savages. None of this computes...
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Reply 7 - Posted by: DVC 11/9/2023 11:21:03 AM (No. 1595154)
Staffers aren't happy. Ok, QUIT or shut up.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: stablemoney 11/9/2023 11:38:48 AM (No. 1595172)
A much more newsworthy revolt is brewing in the country against this White House over domestic and foreign policy, corruption, and incompetence.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: Jethro bo 11/9/2023 11:47:24 AM (No. 1595180)
The problem with he unconstitutional 4th branch of goobernment (unaccountable bureaucrats) is they now think they run US policy. Name any federal agency and it makes its own rules and punishment without Congress or Executive approval. Remember when low level bureaucrats decided that Trumps foreign policies were contrary to their policy and created an impeachment? Looks like the bureaucrats now know it doesn't matter who the president is, the bureaucracy sets policy based on the whims of low level bureaucrats. This happen to Japan's military during the 20s and 30s and most of us know how that turned out.
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Reply 10 - Posted by: FL_Absentee_Voter 11/9/2023 11:59:59 AM (No. 1595191)
As others here have stated: Lead, follow, or get out of the way.
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Reply 11 - Posted by: dbdiva 11/9/2023 12:03:50 PM (No. 1595195)
The headline nails it: The White House is certainly REVOLTING!!
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Reply 12 - Posted by: 49 Ford 11/9/2023 12:05:03 PM (No. 1595196)
# 6, they are pampered, spoiled brats who hate Western Civilization itself. It's not just Jews and Israel. Spoiled rotten, naive and biting the hand that feeds them.
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Reply 13 - Posted by: thethirdruffian 11/9/2023 12:11:48 PM (No. 1595198)
The core of the Democrat party is deeply antisemitic. It’s just a fact.
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Reply 14 - Posted by: Venturer 11/9/2023 12:48:30 PM (No. 1595220)
If White house staffers are having a moral problem with supporting Israel they need to be replaced with better staffers.
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Reply 15 - Posted by: LadyHen 11/9/2023 1:05:57 PM (No. 1595243)
I have it on good authority (themselves on tiktok and YT) that Millennials and Gen Zers are always the smartest people in the room and they know their opinions are the only real opinions. Everyone else is just a backwards "hater" that needs to be jailed and reeducated or else just executed. I hope these nasty little spawn feast on the Democrats who raised them, coddled them, "affirmed" their every whim. How can you raise such horrible beasts and not realize they will eventually turn on you like rabid wolves?
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Reply 16 - Posted by: Ditto1958 11/9/2023 1:25:56 PM (No. 1595257)
It is just disgusting we have such a weak and incompetent president. His administration thinks he’s too strongly supporting Israel. Conservatives are livid his support is so weak. The right side of this issue is simple. Israel is a nation, formed by the UN in 1948. “Palestine” is not a country, never has been. Israel wants to live in peace. Israel is not “occupying” anyone else’s territory. Muslims openly state they want to destroy Israel. It is anti-semitism at a level not seen since WWII.
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Reply 17 - Posted by: 3XALADY 11/9/2023 4:29:02 PM (No. 1595379)
Just WOW! Sleepy is making Israel stop shooting for FOUR hours a day so the terrorists can get out of town or reload or rest. I think Bibi should tell him to mind his own bidness, but Bibi can't do that because they need our help.
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Reply 18 - Posted by: mifla 11/10/2023 6:23:54 AM (No. 1595631)
Staffers make coffee, take notes at meetings, and answer their boss's phone. No one cares what they think. They will do as they are told since they know they would never find such a cushy job in the private sector.
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