{"id":274914,"date":"2023-10-25T07:15:40","date_gmt":"2023-10-25T07:15:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=274914"},"modified":"2023-10-26T06:43:53","modified_gmt":"2023-10-26T06:43:53","slug":"longtime-state-department-official-resigns-over-unjust-u-s-military-aid-to-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=274914","title":{"rendered":"Longtime State Department official RESIGNS over \u201cunjust\u201d U.S. military aid to Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Ethan Huff \u2013 Natural News Oct 24, 2023<\/strong><\/h1>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/stars-and-stripes-star-of-david.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-150123\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/stars-and-stripes-star-of-david.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"554\" height=\"378\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/stars-and-stripes-star-of-david.jpg 554w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/stars-and-stripes-star-of-david-300x205.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 554px) 100vw, 554px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>The 11-year tenured director of congressional and public affairs for the U.S. State Department&#8217;s Bureau of Political-Military Affairs \u2013 this is the guy who oversees United States arms transfers to other countries \u2013 has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/geopolitical\/i-resigned-senior-state-dept-official-quits-over-unjust-military-aid-israel\">resigned in protest<\/a> over the Biden regime&#8217;s decision to continue sending weapons and ammunition to Israel in support of its genocide campaign against Hamas and the Palestinian people at large.<\/p>\n<p>Josh Paul, a State Department veteran, says he simply cannot participate in &#8220;blind support for one side&#8221; on this matter, which he called &#8220;shortsighted, destructive, unjust and contradictory to the very values we publicly espouse.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This administration, I think, knows better and understands some of the complexity, but brought very little of that nuance to the policy decisions that are being made,&#8221; Paul further commented in a statement to the media.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Let me be clear: <a href=\"http:\/\/terrorism.news\">Hamas&#8217; attack on Israel<\/a> was not just a monstrosity; it was a monstrosity of monstrosities. 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 &#8230; will only lead to more and deeper suffering for both the Israeli and the Palestinian people.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>(Related: Jews against genocide protesters <a href=\"https:\/\/www.naturalnews.com\/2023-10-19-jews-protesters-schumer-ceasefire-israel-hamas-conflict.html\">swarmed the home<\/a> of New York Sen. Chuck Schumer, a Democrat, this past week to call for an immediate ceasefire in the Israel-Palestine war.)<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Why does Israel always seem to get a free pass to do whatever it wants \u2013 even committing mass genocide \u2013 with unconditional support from the U.S.?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Paul told <em>The New York Times<\/em> that he fears the U.S. is making the same exact mistake it made again and again in years past with its unconditional support for Israel, regardless of Israel&#8217;s actions.<\/p>\n<p>Israel&#8217;s decision to cut off all fuel, electricity, food and water from the Gaza Strip, which is home to about 2.3 million Palestinian people <em>with Semitic blood<\/em>, was simply too much for Paul.<\/p>\n<p>Paul believes that this decision alone by Israel <em>should<\/em> trigger a slew of federal laws that normally prevent U.S. weapons from ending up in the hands of human rights violators \u2013 but because of Israeli supremacy, they apparently get a special pass to brazenly commit war crimes against their enemies because they believe themselves to be &#8220;God&#8217;s chosen.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The problem with all of those provisions is that it rests on the executive branch making a determination that <a href=\"http:\/\/humanitarian.news\">human rights violations have occurred<\/a>,&#8221; Paul further said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The decision to make a determination doesn&#8217;t rest with some nonpartisan academic entity, and there&#8217;s no incentive for the president to actually determine anything.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Paul&#8217;s statements come after the Biden regime announced a $10 billion military aid package to Israel following Biden&#8217;s visit to Tel Aviv, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/culture\/article-731595\">LGBT pride capital of the world<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Joe &#8220;the big guy&#8221; Biden personally urged Israel to avoid using the money to advance its &#8220;all-consuming rage&#8221; against Gaza and the Palestinian people. To do this, Biden added, would be an overreaction to the Hamas false flag attack on October 7 \u2013 Hamas was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.naturalnews.com\/2023-10-12-hamas-created-israel-yasser-arafat-ron-paul.html\"><em>created by Israel and the U.S.<\/em><\/a> back in the 1970s, by the way.<\/p>\n<p>In Paul&#8217;s view, all this aid money, plus the constant cache of weapons, that the U.S. continues to hand over to Israel with no strings attached is <em>illegal<\/em> \u2013 but because it is Israel, they get a special supremacy pass to do whatever they want.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What it leads to is this desire to sort of impose security at any cost, including in cost to the Palestinian civilian population,&#8221; Paul stated. &#8220;And that doesn&#8217;t ultimately lead to security.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Supporting &#8220;Israel&#8221; unconditionally does <em>not<\/em> mean you are aligned with the God of the Bible as you might think. Learn more at <a href=\"http:\/\/prophecy.news\">Prophecy.news<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources for this article include:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/geopolitical\/i-resigned-senior-state-dept-official-quits-over-unjust-military-aid-israel\">ZeroHedge.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.naturalnews.com\/2023-10-19-jews-protesters-schumer-ceasefire-israel-hamas-conflict.html\">NaturalNews.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/culture\/article-731595\">JPost.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.naturalnews.com\/2023-10-12-hamas-created-israel-yasser-arafat-ron-paul.html\">NaturalNews.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.naturalnews.com\/2023-10-24-state-department-official-resigns-unjust-military-aid-israel.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fractures are appearing at the highest levels of the U.S. government over the Biden administration\u2019s unconditional support for Israel in its conflict with Gaza<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-274914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Israel_Anti-Semitism_Zionism_and_US-UK_allies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=274914"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":274922,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274914\/revisions\/274922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=274914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=274914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=274914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}