Over 500 Former Joe Biden Campaign Staffers Support Palestine
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Jakarta –While the United States President Joe Biden being loudest to support Israel attacks Gaza, more than 500 former campaign staffers who helped elect Joe Biden in 2020 have revealed to support Palestine.
It is known, the Palestine-Israel war has killed more than 10,800 Palestinians.
The letter released on Thursday adds to the growing calls from sources close to the Biden administration to push for an end to the war.
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"As President of the United States, you have significant influence in this perilous moment," the letter, first reported by Vox.
“You must call for a ceasefire, hostage exchange, and de-escalation, and take concrete steps to address the conditions of occupation, apartheid, and ethnic cleansing at the root of the horrific violence we are witnessing now,”
While the Biden administration and Congress remain steadfast in their support for Israel, staff members, grassroots organisations and activists have been expressing growing opposition to the war.
The American Postal Workers Union, which represents US Postal Service employees, also backed calls for a ceasefire on Thursday.
“We call on our government, which is the primary foreign benefactor of the Israeli government, to use all its power to protect innocent lives and to help bring about peace in the region, and not use our tax dollars for more war,” the union said in a statement.
“We join the calls for an immediate ceasefire, the release of hostages, and urgently needed massive humanitarian aid to the people of Gaza. The cries of humanity demand nothing less,"
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Both statements follow earlier efforts from within the government topush for an end to hostilities.
Last week, employees at the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) circulated a letter calling for an immediate ceasefire, and by Wednesday, it had surpassed 1,000 signatures.
Hundreds of Congress staffers also staged a walk-out on Wednesday to demand an end to the war.
Thursday’s letter by people who worked on Biden’s campaign highlighted the mounting death toll in Gaza and the mass displacement of residents in the territory’s northern reaches, noting that scholars have raised alarm about the risk of genocide in the conflict.
The Democratic staffers also said they were “horrified by the devastating Hamas attack against Israeli civilians on October 7″.
When Joe Biden ran for president, his supporters often described him as a "good" man who wanted to restore unity in the United States after Donald Trump's leadership.
Biden has experienced personal grief in his life, having lost his wife and young daughter in a car accident in 1972 and his son Beau, a politician and military veteran, to cancer in 2015.
The campaign staff statement criticized the US president for downplaying or even ignoring the many civilian casualties in Gaza.
"Mr. President, you have spoken deeply about the unbearable pain and grief of losing a child," the letter said.
"We are shocked and saddened that you justify the deaths of Palestinian children as the 'price of war',"
Joe Biden made the comments while questioning the number of Palestinian deaths on October 25, during a meeting with reporters at the White House.
"I believe that innocent people have been killed, and this is the price of war," he said.
As the US president faced pressure from his own supporters, his favorability ratings among Democrats plummeted. He also saw a big drop in support in the Arab community.
