A former State Division official resigned final week over the Biden administration’s response to the Israel-Hamas conflict.
Josh Paul, the previous director of congressional and public affairs on the division’s Bureau of Political-Army Affairs, introduced his resignation on Oct. 18 in a two-page letter posted to LinkedIn, stating he couldn’t keep due to a “coverage disagreement” with america’ “continued deadly help to Israel.”
“Let me be clear: Hamas’ assault on Israel was not only a monstrosity; it was a monstrosity of monstrosities. I additionally imagine that potential escalations by Iran-linked teams comparable to Hezbollah, or by Iran itself, could be an extra cynical exploitation of the present tragedy. However I imagine to the core of my soul that the response Israel is taking, and with it the American help each for that response, and for the established order of the occupation, will solely result in extra and deeper struggling for each the Israeli and the Palestinian folks – and isn’t in the long run American curiosity,” Paul wrote partially.
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A smoke rises and ball of fireside over buildings in Gaza Metropolis on October 9, 2023 throughout an Israeli air strike. (Picture by Sameh Rahmi/NurPhoto by way of Getty Photographs)
“This Administration’s response – and far of Congress’ as properly – is an impulsive response constructed on affirmation bias, political comfort, mental chapter, and bureaucratic inertia. That’s to say, it’s immensely disappointing, and completely unsurprising. Many years of the identical method have proven that safety for peace results in neither safety, nor to peace. The very fact is, blind help for one facet is harmful in the long run to the pursuits of the folks on either side. I worry we’re repeating the identical errors we now have made these previous a long time, and I decline to be part of it for longer.”
Paul, who labored 11 years for the State Division, advised the New York Instances “authorized guardrails” had been failing after Israel lower off water, meals, electrical energy and drugs to Gaza after Hamas terrorists killed 1,400 Israelis and kidnapped lots of extra.
The Biden administration introduced a $100 million humanitarian support bundle for Palestinians final week and requested roughly $15 billion in support for Israel from the U.S. Congress.
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Support convoy vans loaded with provides are seen at Cairo-Ismailia Desert Street on 14 October, 2023 in Cairo, Egypt. (Mahmoud Khaled/Getty Photographs)
Fox Information’ Griff Jenkins stated Paul’s letter was “unbelievable.” “That is the man, Josh Paul, who was offering support from our president’s route to the State Division to Ukraine. And now he says he has an ethical drawback with taking a ‘facet’ with Israel,” he stated on “The Huge Weekend Present.”
“And on this exact same breath, this man who stated he was there for 11 years saying that he cannot choose a facet, took a facet in Ukraine, however in some way he lacks the ethical readability to know that we now have not seen in any of our lives the degree of human depravity that was carried out by Hamas with beheading infants, raping youngsters to the purpose that their pelvic bones broke, taking Holocaust survivors again hostage. And this man has an ethical compromise with taking a facet?” Jenkins requested.
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Co-host Joey Jones argued the Biden administration has an “ideological drawback.” “It is an issue that goes into our universities and into our tradition,” he stated. “It’s an ideological wormhole in our nation that we now have to know that evil is evil and an ally defending itself will not be.”
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