As human rights groups continue to call out war crimes committed by the Israeli military, we speak to the only U.S. diplomat to publicly resign from the Biden administration over its policy on Israel.

We first spoke to Hala Rharrit when she resigned from the State Department in April, citing the illegal and deceptive nature of U.S. policy in the Middle East. “We continue to willfully violate laws so that we surge U.S. military assistance to Israel,” she says after more than a year of Israel’s war on Gaza.

Rharrit says she found the Biden administration unmovable in its “counterproductive policy,” which she believes has gravely harmed U.S. interests in the Middle East. “We are going to feel the repercussions of that for years, decades, generations.”

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      28 days ago

      Then why include that they’re veterans? That’d be like me saying I saw four people, all black, discussing how they were going illegally pass water out in the voting line.

      Including that bit doesn’t give us any more relevant information. Unless of course I’m trying to push an opinion about black people.

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          128 days ago

          And yet as an OIF vet I feel weirdly targeted.

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              128 days ago

              Sure, you take it objectively when everyone wants to pre-emptively lump you in with a bunch of traitors.

              Israel is a rogue state going for the record on how many war crimes can they commit against a resistance movement they spawned with previous war crimes.