State Department Official Resigns After US Shares Support For Israel
WOW! The New York Times Should Be Positively ASHAMED Of This
October 19, 2023
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October 19, 2023Funding terrorist organizations? Totally fine.
Helping a country protect themselves from said terrorist organization? THAT’S crossing the line.
Josh Paul is the State Department official I’m referring to, having worked with the Bureau of Political-Military Affairs, who resigned shortly after President Biden announced material support for Israel. Paul is suggesting that his decision is based on a “policy disagreement” regarding Israel receiving lethal assistance from the United States, and “cannot work” under these circumstances.
Fox News reported his quotes:
“Today I informed my colleagues that I have resigned from the State Department, due to a policy disagreement concerning our continued lethal assistance to Israel,” Paul wrote on LinkedIn.
He added: “I cannot work in support of a set of major policy decisions, including rushing more arms to one side of the conflict, that I believe to be shortsighted, destructive, unjust, and contradictory to the very values that we publicly espouse.”
“Let me be clear: Hamas’ attack on Israel was not just a monstrosity; it was a monstrosity of monstrosities,” he wrote. “I also believe that potential escalations by Iran-linked groups such as Hezbollah, or by Iran itself, would be a further cynical exploitation of the existing tragedy. 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 and for the status quo of the occupation, 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.”
“When I came to the Bureau, the U.S. Government entity most responsible for the transfer and provision of arms to partners and allies, I knew it was not without its moral complexity and moral compromises, and I made myself a promise that I would stay for as long as I felt the harm I might do would be outweighed by the good I could do,” Paul wrote. “In my 11 years I have made more moral compromises than I can recall, each heavily, but each with my promise to myself in mind, and intact. I am leaving today because I believe that in our current course with regards to the continued — indeed, expanded and expedited — provision of lethal arms to Israel — I have reached the end of that bargain.”
The statement is quite lengthy, but you can check it out here, as it’s swiftly making it’s way around X, formerly known as Twitter:
Israel is America’s closest ally in the Middle East and Biden continues to stand firm in supporting them and their right to defend themselves against Hamas.
For Paul to suggest that Israel committed violations of human rights in their efforts to defend themselves is an egregious misplacement of accountability.
This is the most ruthless assault we have seen against Jewish people since the Holocaust.
President Biden announced on Wednesday that he will provide $100 million in humanitarian assistance and, if Hamas confiscates this assistance, the president confirmed the aid would be cut off.
What do y’all think?
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I am sorry it is really hard to type the previous comments with tears in my eyes. The Fogel baby murdered in his crib in Israel in 2011 was only 3 months old, not 11 as I said above. (How could anyone do this to babies? How could anyone excuse this in anyway?)
“Names of Itamar attack victims cleared for publication Saturday evening: Udi Fogel, 36, Ruth Fogel, 35, and their children Yoav, 11, Elad, 4, and three-month-old Hadas were stabbed to death. Surviving kids staying with grandparents”.
You asked we deliver. I think, sometimes I think-maybe, that this guy was employed 11 years to long. I can think of no-good reason why anyone from Hamas should be still breathing air. Hamas almost killed another 500 Pals who were doctors, nurses and patients at a hospital, reason no. 9037859203479079 they should be sent to meet their maker.
Personally, I think Israel has shown remarkable restraint since about May 14, 1948, to present. While this is larger in scale, this is not the first time these monsters have killed Israeli babies in their cribs, just because they are Jewish. Mom, Dad, 11-year-old, 4-year-old and 11-month-old. The 11-month-old sleeping in his crib was such a physical threat to the brave jihadis -/sarc. “Itamar massacre: Fogel family butchered while sleeping”. https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4041237,00.html
I would like to think if this was done here to my family, friends or just my fellow Americans, my or my government’s response would not be proportional, so as to not perpetuate a cycle of violence. Our friends and family in Israel should expect no less.
‘Am Yisrael chai – the Jewish people live’! I stand unapologetically with Israel. May Hashem avenge the innocent Israeli blood. My family and I pray for the suffering Israelis that Hashem will bring them peace and will bring the hostages safely home. May Hashem guide and protect the brave men and women of the IDF who are going into harm’s way to protect all of us.
You asked we deliver. I think, sometimes I think-maybe, that this guy was employed 11 years to long. I can think of no-good reason why anyone from Hamas should be still breathing air. Hamas almost killed another 500 Pals who were doctors, nurses and patients at a hospital, reason no. 9037859203479079 they should be sent to meet their maker.
Personally, I think Israel has shown remarkable restraint since about May 14, 1948, to present. While this is larger in scale, this is not the first time these monsters have killed Israeli babies in their cribs, just because they are Jewish. Mom, Dad, 11-year-old, 4-year-old and 11-month-old. The 11-month-old sleeping in his crib was such a physical threat to the brave jihadis -/sarc. “Itamar massacre: Fogel family butchered while sleeping”. https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4041237,00.html
I would like to think if this was done here to my family, friends or just my fellow Americans, my or my government’s response would not be proportional, so as to not perpetuate a cycle of violence. Our friends and family in Israel should expect no less.
‘Am Yisrael chai – the Jewish people live’! I stand unapologetically with Israel. May Hashem avenge the innocent Israeli blood. My family and I pray for the suffering Israelis that Hashem will bring them peace and will bring the hostages safely home. May Hashem guide and protect the brave men and women of the IDF who are going into harm’s way to protect all of us.