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.”
A little of everything, I think. Plus I don’t think Biden has the mental capacity to competently evaluate what’s going on. The man is positively geriatric, and he’s no Jimmy Carter. But he’s useful, in the same way that Dianne Feinstein’s staff kept her as a puppet right up until her death. Frankly, it’s elder abuse.