The US administration’s support is widely viewed as a “blank check” for Israel (Reuters)

The American ABC network quoted sources as saying that the US State Department had received warnings from its diplomats in the Middle East about growing hostility towards Washington, due to the US position on the war on Gaza and its absolute support for Israel.

The network explained that the warnings received by the US State Department prompted a meeting with intelligence agencies to evaluate the repercussions, and noted that one of the cables issued by the Washington Embassy in Morocco confirmed that the US administration’s support for Israel after the Al-Aqsa Flood operation on October 7 is widely viewed as “ A blank check” to Israel in order to move forward with its response.

The cable - which was described as sensitive but not classified - stated that the criticism directed at the United States had not changed despite the amendments to the messages issued by Washington, which emphasized the need to protect civilian lives.

The cable noted that the Moroccan media rarely covered American initiatives to aid the Palestinians “or diplomatic pressure on Israel to avoid civilian casualties,” and that the embassy’s social media accounts were flooded with waves of unfollows or “negative and offensive comments.”

The network quoted an official as saying that diplomats in Muslim-majority countries in other regions of the world, such as Indonesia, also expressed concerns about growing hostile sentiment toward the United States.

Future implications

The network noted that continued blows to US popularity in the Middle East "could have wide-ranging implications for US diplomacy, including efforts to build a coalition to help rebuild Gaza after the fighting stops and encourage the normalization of relations with Israel."

It quoted experts as saying that "the rise in anti-American sentiment could have negative effects on American companies operating in the region and may inspire extremism."

But one official told the network that the White House and the intelligence community are still not convinced that the current situation will continue, although some State Department officials confirm that it may take an entire generation to rebuild the United States’ standing in some countries.

On the internal level, the network said that the White House has intensified its efforts to deal with the violent domestic reaction to the war in Gaza in recent weeks, in an attempt to repair relations with Muslim and Arab American voters, because their votes could affect President Joe Biden’s chances of winning a second term in the country. Next elections.

She explained that the White House sent its senior aides to Dearborn, Michigan, last week to meet with prominent members of the local community, and quoted sources familiar with the meetings as saying that the officials spoke in an “apologetic tone,” but many local leaders are still expressing their anger regarding Biden’s handling of the war. in Gaza.

This coincided with the US administration slowly reducing the intensity of its statements in absolute support of Israel, and expressing sympathy for the suffering of Palestinian civilians in Gaza, according to the network, which stated that the most recent evidence of that trend was President Joe Biden’s statements during his meeting with King Abdullah II of Jordan, which stated, “In "For the past four months, as the war has raged, the Palestinian people have also suffered unimaginable pain and loss. A very large number of the more than 27,000 Palestinians killed in this conflict were innocent civilians and children."

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