Biden warned by US diplomats of disdain towards US in Arab world
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One cable from the US embassy in Cairo revealed to Washington the commentary in a state-run Egyptian newspaper that "President Biden’s cruelty and disregard for Palestinians exceeded all previous US presidents."
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President Joe Biden arrives to speak to United Auto Workers at the Community Building Complex of Boone County, Thursday, Nov. 9, 2023, in Belvidere, Illinois. (AP)
A diplomatic cable obtained by CNN reveals harsh warnings from US diplomats in the Arab world to the Biden administration that its unconditional support for "Israel's" war on Gaza "is losing us Arab publics for a generation."
The cable from the US Embassy in Oman cited conversations with "a wide range of trusted and sober-minded contacts", saying "We are losing badly on the messaging battlespace".
The American support is being regarded "as material and moral culpability in what they consider to be possible war crimes."
The cable, which was written by the second-highest US official in Muscat, was sent to the White House’s National Security Council, the CIA, and the FBI.
Another cable from the US embassy in Cairo revealed to Washington the commentary in a state-run Egyptian newspaper that "President Biden’s cruelty and disregard for Palestinians exceeded all previous US presidents."
Reports emerging on Thursday indicated that under pressure from the United States, "Israel" agreed to implement "tactical localized humanitarian pauses" in its war on the Gaza Strip within northern Gaza neighborhoods for four hours each day, as disclosed by Israeli and US officials.
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Failed attempts
The decision marks a change in Israeli policy, as it had previously resisted the Biden administration's efforts to implement pauses in the Israeli war on Gaza for humanitarian reasons, according to Axios. Initially, Israeli officials perceived these pauses as a potential route to a ceasefire, which the Israeli public was not inclined toward.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken took a trip to the Middle East over the weekend as the US continues to face resistance to its presence in the region, and it is obvious that he took this into consideration, because he wore a bulletproof vest when he was in Iraq on Sunday.
Blinken has traveled to occupied Palestine, Jordan, Iraq, and Turkey, wherein he said regional states were playing a pivotal role in terms of preventing an escalation into a regional conflict by, reportedly, curbing Iran and its allies' efforts to do so, efforts which he praised.
Arab leaders see that, however, with The New York Times reporting that the US' most important Arab allies, including Jordan and Egypt, are pressuring Washington to curb the Israeli occupation in light of its onslaught in Gaza, as the sheer amount of photos and videos of martyred Palestinian civilians has been giving rise to popular anger in these states.
