In private meetings that frequently devolved into venting sessions, State Department employees “overwhelmingly” called for “more to punish Israel,” according to Jewish Insider.
When Asia expert Kurt Campbell started his new job in February as the deputy secretary of state, he began a series of listening sessions with staff members at Foggy Bottom.
“It was overwhelmingly calls, including from people I respect, [that] we need to do more to sanction Israel, we need to do more to punish Israel, we need to be more seriously considering ways in which we can sanction them, condition aid, cut off aid, reduce weapons flows,” one foreign service officer with two decades of Middle East experience told the Insider. “There were people whose issues don’t have anything to do with the conflict … who were making the case for why we need to do more to bash Israel.”
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