{"id":1269138,"date":"2023-10-14T17:25:34","date_gmt":"2023-10-14T17:25:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=4b0383b81d511f908042799b22f3d378"},"modified":"2023-10-14T17:25:34","modified_gmt":"2023-10-14T17:25:34","slug":"amid-gaza-war-us-officials-told-not-to-use-words-like-de-escalation-ceasefire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/10\/14\/amid-gaza-war-us-officials-told-not-to-use-words-like-de-escalation-ceasefire\/","title":{"rendered":"Amid Gaza War, US Officials Told Not to Use Words Like \u201cDe-Escalation\/Ceasefire\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As Israel on Friday bombarded civilians in Gaza and prepared for a ground invasion in response to Hamas&rsquo; recent attack, U.S. State Department leadership reportedly instructed officials not to publicly use some terms that would advocate for less violence. According to HuffPost, which reviewed official emails, &ldquo;State Department staff wrote that high-level officials do not want press materials to...<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/amid-gaza-war-us-officials-told-not-to-use-words-like-de-escalation-ceasefire\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/amid-gaza-war-us-officials-told-not-to-use-words-like-de-escalation-ceasefire\/\">Latest \u2013 Truthout<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Israel bombarded Gaza, State Department staff were told to avoid phrases like &#8220;end to violence&#8221; and &#8220;restoring calm.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":613,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5272,287,70029,82,4,473,8113],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1269138"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/613"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1269138"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1269138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1269139,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1269138\/revisions\/1269139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1269138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1269138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1269138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}