WASHINGTON November 20. 2023 (Saba) - US federal government employees have released an open letter calling on US President Joe Biden to push for a ceasefire in the Zionist war on the Gaza Strip.
As of late last week, 650 employees of diverse religious backgrounds from more than 30 federal agencies, including the Executive Office of the President, the Census Bureau, the State Department, the U.S. Agency for International Development, and the Department of Defense, had signed the letter, according to the letter's organizers.
The president's rejection of calls to push Netanyahu for a long-term ceasefire has left some federal employees feeling unheard, said a Biden political appointee who helped organize the open letter.
This comes as internal protests expand in rejection of the policy of US President Joe Biden and Congress in supporting Israel in its war. The protests included several types, from signing letters to speaking to journalists to organizing protests.
Earlier this month, one hundred congressional staff organized a vigil in front of the building, wearing masks that obscured their faces, and placed flowers in front of Congress to honor civilians killed in the ongoing war.
At the time, a congressional staffer said to the crowd during the vigil “Most of our presidents in Congress do not listen to the people they represent.”
Federal employees' objections to US military and other support for Israel's campaign in Gaza are partly a result of changes occurring more broadly across American society.
In this context, polls show a shift in public opinion regarding Israel, an ally of the United States, with more people expressing their dissatisfaction with the hard-right government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
As the war sparked protests on campuses and in the streets across the country, the position of a large number of Americans, including members of the Democratic Party, differed, after weeks of seeing images of bloodied children and fleeing families in Gaza.
A poll conducted by the Associated Press and the NORC Center for Public Affairs Research in early November showed that 40 percent of the American public believed that Israel's response in Gaza had gone too far.
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