Axios said that an employee of the US State Department expressed her dissatisfaction with the support of the US President joe biden For “genocide” in GazaShe called for changing the White House’s policy toward Israel.
The American website stated that Sylvia Yaqoub, a foreign affairs employee in the Office of Middle East Affairs for more than two years, sent an email on Thursday morning to collect signatures on an opposition telegram within the ministry regarding the White House’s policy towards Israel.
She wrote: “In light of the heinous attack by Hamas last October 7, the response of the Government of Israel that followed, and the apparent full support of the response by the Government of the United States, we have drafted an opposition cable calling for a significant change in the administration’s short and long term policy.” The term surrounding the conflict and the path towards regional integration and security,” according to a copy obtained by the website.
She wrote, “We will send the draft of the telegram on (Classnet),” referring to a secret system in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, expressing her hope “to collect the signatures of those interested by the end of work tomorrow.”
The employee also said – in her post on the social media platform “X” – addressing President Biden, “You are providing more military assistance to the government that is indiscriminately attacking the innocent residents of Gaza… You are complicit in genocide.”
According to “Axios”, Sylvia Yacoub changed the status of her posts from “public”, which everyone can view, to “private” after the website tried to contact her by phone, saying that she refused to make any comment.
The site pointed out that another State Department official, Josh Paul, had previously resigned last month, due to “a policy disagreement over our continued lethal aid to Israel,” as he wrote on the social networking site “LinkedIn.”
The White House has also seen internal discontent over Gaza policy, and senior Biden aides have held several meetings with staff members who have expressed private criticism.
