{"id":83141,"date":"2023-10-24T10:45:16","date_gmt":"2023-10-24T14:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cablemanpro.com\/wallstreetpr\/state-department-official-who-resigned-over-military-aid-to-israel-decries-willingness-to-abandon-our-values-83141"},"modified":"2023-10-24T10:45:16","modified_gmt":"2023-10-24T14:45:16","slug":"state-department-official-who-resigned-over-military-aid-to-israel-decries-willingness-to-abandon-our-values","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cablemanpro.com\/wallstreetpr\/state-department-official-who-resigned-over-military-aid-to-israel-decries-willingness-to-abandon-our-values-83141","title":{"rendered":"State Department official who resigned over military aid to Israel decries &#8216;willingness to abandon our values&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Former State Department official Josh Paul <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">spoke out<\/a> in an op-ed for the Washington Post after he resigned from his job over President Biden&#8217;s announcement of material support for Israel.<\/p>\n<p>Paul announced, Thursday, that he would be resigning because of a &#8220;policy disagreement concerning our continued lethal assistance to Israel.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I cannot work in support of a set of major policy decisions, including rushing more arms to one side of the conflict, that I believe to be shortsighted, destructive, unjust, and contradictory to the very values that we publicly espouse,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/state-department-official-calls-quits-biden-us-will-support-israel-policy-disagreement\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">he wrote<\/a> on LinkedIn.<\/p>\n<p>In an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2023\/10\/23\/state-department-quit-israel-arms\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">op-ed for the Washington Post,<\/a> Paul wrote that he worked in the State Department&#8217;s bureau &#8220;responsible for arms transfers and security assistance to foreign governments.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/former-state-department-officials-resigning-lethal-assistance-israel-unbelievable\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>FORMER STATE DEPARTMENT OFFICIAL&#8217;S REASONS FOR RESIGNING OVER \u2018LETHAL ASSISTANCE\u2019 TO ISRAEL ARE \u2018UNBELIEVABLE\u2019<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was involved in many complex and morally challenging debates over what weapons to send where.<strong> <\/strong>What I had not seen until this month, however, was a complex and morally challenging transfer in the absence of a debate,&#8221; he wrote.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Paul has repeatedly condemned Hamas&#8217; terrorist attacks in Israel, but wrote in his op-ed that while Israel has a right to defend itself, &#8220;the country\u2019s track record over a half-dozen major clashes in the past 15 years suggests that thousands of Palestinian civilians will die in the process.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The former official said he urged a &#8220;frank discussion&#8221; over <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/us-delivering-munitions-israel-war-hamas-intensifies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Israel&#8217;s requests for munitions<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These requests deserved the attention we would pay to any large arms package, and I urged a frank discussion. My urging was met with silence \u2014 and the clear direction that we needed to move as fast as possible to meet Israel\u2019s requests,&#8221; he wrote.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/white-house-negotiates-combinined-israel-ukraine-aid-senate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>WHITE HOUSE NEGOTIATES COMBINED AID TO ISRAEL AND UKRAINE WITH SENATE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>He added that Congress has blocked arm sales to places with &#8220;questionable human rights records,&#8221; and said that managing the concerns surrounding human rights and the munitions request of U.S. allies was standard in completing an arms transfer.<\/p>\n<p>Paul cited the &#8220;furious debates&#8221; over providing cluster munitions to Ukraine.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The absence of a willingness to hold that debate when it comes to Israel is not proof of our commitment to Israel\u2019s security. Rather, it is proof of our commitment to a policy that, the record shows, is a dead end \u2014 and proof of our willingness to abandon our values and turn a blind eye to the suffering of millions in Gaza when it is politically expedient,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;That is not the State Department I know. And that is why I had to leave it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><i><strong>For more Culture, Media, Education, Opinion, and channel coverage, visit <\/strong><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><i><strong><u>foxnews.com\/media<\/u><\/strong><\/i><\/a><i><strong><u>.<\/u><\/strong><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Fox News&#8217; Lawrence Richard contributed to this report.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/state-department-official-resigned-over-military-aid-israel-decries-wllingness-abandon-our-values\">Source &#8211; https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/state-department-official-resigned-over-military-aid-israel-decries-wllingness-abandon-our-values <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former State Department official Josh Paul spoke out in an op-ed for the Washington Post after he resigned from his job over President Biden&#8217;s announcement [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"twitter_2902945987_2902945987":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[16563],"tags":[],"stock_ticker":[],"class_list":["post-83141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-news","entry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - 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