www.zerohedge.com BY TYLER DURDEN
A longtime State Department official in the bureau that oversees arms transfers resigned this week in protest of the Biden administration’s decision to continue sending weapons and ammunition to Israel in support of its war with Hamas.
Josh Paul, who served as the director of congressional and public affairs for the State Department’s Bureau of Political-Military Affairs for 11 years, said the Biden administration’s “blind support for one side” had led to policy decisions that were “shortsighted, destructive, unjust and contradictory to the very values we publicly espouse.”
“Let me be clear: Hamas’ attack on Israel was not just a monstrosity; it was a monstrosity of monstrosities,” the letter reads. “But I believe to the core of my soul that the response Israel is taking, and with it the American support both for that response… will only lead to more and deeper suffering for both the Israeli and the Palestinian people – and is not in the long term American interest.”
“I fear we are repeating the same mistakes we have made these past decades, and I decline to be a part of it for longer,” the letter continues…
