Another State Department official has resigned over President Biden’s support for Israel’s slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza, The Washington Post reported on Wednesday.
Stacy Gilbert, a career official who worked in the State Department’s Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration, said in a resignation email to her colleagues that she disagreed with a State Department report that claimed Israel has not been blocking aid deliveries into Gaza.
The State Department report also said that Israel was likely violating US and international law with US-provided weapons but claimed there was not sufficient evidence to prove it. The conclusion of the report, which was issued under a new national security memorandum, allows the US to continue shipping weapons to Israel.
Gilbert resigned on Tuesday, and Josh Paul, who resigned from the State Department back in October, pointed to the fact that it was the same day the Biden administration made clear Israel’s bombing of displaced Palestinians at a tent camp in Rafah wouldn’t impact US support.
“On the day when the White House announced that the latest atrocity in Rafah did not cross its red line, this resignation demonstrates that the Biden administration will do anything to avoid the truth,” Paul wrote on Linkedin.
So far, four State Department officials have resigned over the genocidal war in Gaza, and three officials from other departments, including one from the Interior Department, the Education Department, and a US Army major who worked for the Pentagon’s Defense Intelligence Agency.
There are at least some honest federal officials.
Too few to make a difference.
The flood starts with one raindrop.
LOL. I hope to see more before I die.
During the entire Vietnam War only a tiny handful of Gov’t officials resigned or protested. Today it’s dozens as well a thousands are signing petitions, etc. Maybe the ICJ orders are focusing minds. These resigning Gov’t officials certainly do not want to be indicted for enabling genocide.
And you know how many officials resigned in post of the Vietnam war how?
Better late than never.
Mass exodus from the old government may provide a talent pool for the new nation with a new mid continent capitol.
All of them should resign…!
"S0 far, four State Department officials have resigned over…Gaza, and three…from other departments."
Hard to keep track, admittedly:
"Smith and Gilbert bring the total number of Biden administration officials to have publicly resigned over US policy on Gaza to nine, though Josh Paul, the first official to resign, said that at least two dozen more had left quietly, without a public declaration."
("Two more US officials resign over Biden administration’s position on Gaza war," Guardian 5/30)
Berlin May 1945: 3 days before the Red Army arrives, members of Hitler’s general staff have sudden attacks of the ethicitis.
These people knew what they signed up for, they did it in most cases for decades. Rats are just jumping ship to get out ahead in the job market after Biden hits the iceberg, and are trying to make it possible to vacation in Spain without being arrested and renditioned to the ICC.
She just cost herself big time, no more sweet government pension. She put her money where her mouth was. I am impressed
"Stacy Gilbert said she disagreed with a State Department report that claimed Israel wasn't impeding aid deliveries into Gaza"
The Guardian piece on Gilbert is important – she worked closely on the report, and says not simply that she disagreed with its conclusions on humanitarian aid, but that the "report’s conclusion went against the overwhelming view of state department experts who were consulted on" it.
("US state department falsified report absolving Israel on Gaza aid – ex-official," Guardian, 5/30)
The last time the official reports were changed vs what the experts saw was the lead up to Iraq.
@catturd2
Dear Republican Party
@GOP…
I don't want to hear another damn word about Ukraine.
I don't want to hear another damn word about Israel.
I don't want to hear another damn word about GAZA.
I don't want to hear another damn word about Taiwan.
I don't want to hear another damn word about any other country except the USA, you America-last war pigs.
The fascist Democrat Party has completely destroyed our country from within, we have a wide open border, and they're shitting on the Constitution while you spineless, coward losers get rich on insider trading, rage tweet, and talk about your "principles."
They're literally arresting their political opponents and their lawyers and having kangaroo communists show trials – and you pitiful, worthless losers are doing absolutely nothing.
If you don't have balls to fight for freedom – RESIGN !!!