The inmates are running the asylum at the State Department, and Secretary of State Antony Blinken is apparently trying to pat them all on the back instead of telling them to suck it up.

Apparently, the State Department is staffed with a lot of people who either love them some Hamas action, or they are anti-Semites who hate Israel. Six of one, half dozen of the other at this point. These State Department officials are, according to reports, using the “dissent cable” process to express their unhappiness with the Biden administration’s lip service (if not actual aid yet) supporting Israel after the Hamas invasion and massacre of October 7th. Huffington Post first reported the “mutiny” within the State Department on October 19th, which is well before the ground invasion phase of the war began.

Officials told HuffPost that Secretary of State Antony Blinken and his most senior advisers are overlooking widespread internal frustration. Some department staff said they feel as if Blinken and his team are uninterested in their own experts’ advice as they focus on supporting Israel’s expanding operation in Gaza, where the Palestinian militant group Hamas is based.

“There’s basically a mutiny brewing within State at all levels,” one State Department official said.