At least 13 senior officials in the US administration resigned in protest against the ‘blind’ support provided by President Joe Biden to the Zionist entity, and the orders they received to immediately approve any Israeli request.
The resigning officials clarified, in the American investigative program 60 Minutes last night, that the requests to support the occupying entity came from President Joe Biden, his Secretary of State Antony Blinken, and the figures surrounding them.
The program pointed out that 13 senior officials, including members from the State Department, the White House, and the military, resigned in protest against the ‘blind support’ for the occupation during the aggression on Gaza.
“There is a linkage between every single bomb that is dropped in Gaza and the U.S. because every single bomb that is dropped is dropped from an American-made plane,” Josh Paul, a former director in the State Department’s Bureau of Political – Military Affairs who resigned shortly after October 7, told 60 Minutes.
He added: Since the beginning of the war, the United States has transferred military aid worth $18 billion to the occupying entity, most of which was in the form of weapons funded by American taxpayers.
Earlier this month, the US Department of State approved an $8 billion arms deal with the Zionist entity.
These statements from the officials come in light of reports during the aggression and accusations that the Biden administration delayed shipments of heavy bombs and heavy weapons to the occupying entity.
Andrew Miller, a former deputy assistant secretary of state for Israeli-Palestinian affairs, resigned last June to spend more time with his family, but has since gone public with concerns about US’s role in the war—the highest ranking official to do so thus far, according to 60 Minutes.
Andrew Miller said in an interview that the message to ‘Israel’ was clear: ‘The message received by Prime Minister Netanyahu was that in the front seat, he is the one in control, and American support will be there, and he can take it for granted.’
He added that no real red lines were set, apart from the ‘usual language’ regarding compliance with international law.
For her part Hala Rharrit, an American diplomat who spent 18 years working on human rights and counterterrorism in the Middle East and elsewhere, left her post last spring—becoming the first State Department diplomat to publicly resign over the Biden administration’s policies backing Israel’s siege on Gaza, according to Democracy Now!
Rharrit would send daily reports to senior leadership in Washington containing “gruesome images and her warnings,” according to 60 Minutes. “I would show the complicity that was indisputable. Fragments of U.S. bombs next to massacres of… mostly children,” Rharrit recounted.
Another official from the White House interviewed in the program defended the policy, saying that the administration’s lawyers did not decide that ‘Israel’ violated the laws of war, and therefore arms shipments continue to flow. However, Miller sees the reality differently: ‘Without intervention from the U.S. or anyone else to impose or pressure a decision, it will end when Netanyahu says it’s over.’
The Zionist forces continue their aggression on the Gaza Strip, by land, sea, and air, since October 7, 2023, resulting in the martyrdom of 46,584 citizens and the injury of 109,731 others. Thousands of victims are still under rubble and in the streets, and rescue and emergency teams are unable to reach them.
