A State Department official in the office that oversees arms transfers, Josh Paul, resigned in protest over the Biden administration’s decision to send weapons to Israel in the conflict that erupted on Oct. 7 after the bloody Hamas attack. The official based his decision on complete disagreement […]
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A State Department official in the office that oversees arms transfers, Josh Paul, resigned in protest over the Biden administration’s decision to send weapons to Israel in the conflict that erupted on Oct. 7 after the bloody Hamas attack. The official justified his decision in a complete break with the positions of the American president, who flew to Tel Aviv on Wednesday to meet Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and renewed Washington’s full support, saying that “blind support” leads to political decisions , which is “short-sighted, destructive, unfair and contrary to the values we publicly represent.”
The leader explained his reasons and position in the resignation letter submitted to the State Department: “The response Israel is giving, and therefore American support for both that response and the status quo of the occupation, will only lead to more.” and greater suffering for both the Israeli and Palestinian people,” said the man who served as director of public and parliamentary affairs in the State Department’s Bureau of Politico-Military Affairs for more than 11 years. And it was his long stay in the offices of the State Department that led him to believe that American military policy was wrong in the most heated situations. No concrete evidence, for example, of unconditional military support for Ukraine or, going back even further, of the decision to invade Afghanistan and Iraq in the early 2000s. But the verdict is clear and unfiltered: “I fear that we will repeat the same mistakes of the last decades and I refuse to participate in them any longer.”
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