The first public dissension in opposition to President Joe Biden’s carte blanche policy towards Israel from within the U.S. government has emerged. The New York Times reported overnight on the resignation of Josh Paul, Director of Congressional and Public Affairs for the State Department’s Bureau of Political-Military Affairs for the past 11 years, in protest to the administration’s full throttle support of Israel, including the provisions of weaponry. In his resignation letter, Paul said the Biden administration’s “blind support for one side” was leading to policy decisions that were “shortsighted, destructive, unjust and contradictory to the very values we publicly espouse.”
“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,” he wrote, according to the Times. “I fear we are repeating the same mistakes we have made these past decades, and I decline to be a part of it for longer.”
