Civil servants in a variety of Western countries are increasingly concerned at their governments’ policy with regard to Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza.
Over 800 of them have taken the unprecedented step of releasing a statement warning their governments, among other things, to “Stop asserting to the public that there is a strategic and defensible rationale behind the Israeli operation and that supporting it is in our countries’ interests“.
It is signed by civil servants from the US, the EU and 11 European countries including the UK, France and Germany.
This article was originally published by the BBC on Fri 2 Feb 2024. Read the original here.