Stacy Gilbert resigned in protest against State Department report that says Israel isn't blocking aid to Gaza

A career State Department official resigned from her post on Tuesday, saying she could no longer work for the Biden administration after it released a report concluding that Israel was not preventing the flow of aid to Gaza.

Stacy Gilbert, who served as a senior civilian-military advisor to the State Department’s Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration (PRM), sent an email to staff saying she was resigning because she felt the State Department had made the wrong assessment, The Washington Post reported, citing officials who read the note.

The report was filed in response to President Joe Biden issuing a national security memorandum (NSM-20) in early February on whether the administration finds credible Israel’s assurances that its use of US weapons do not violate either American or international law.

The report said there were reasonable grounds to believe Israel on several occasions had used American-supplied weapons “inconsistent” with international humanitarian law, but said it could not make a definitive assessment - enough to prevent the suspension of arms transfers.

  • NeatoEnglish
    16•6 months ago

    Yes you are. Because Trump will accelerate the genocide. He has been vocal about that. Neither have the right stance in this but one is clearly worse.

    That’s how fptp and party politics work. Not voting is handing a bigger vote to whichever side you dislike more. This is just grade school civics.

      • @ghostdoggtv@lemmy.world
        16•6 months ago

        They’re not bullshit talking points, the analysis is correct. If you can muster another viable candidate by November, bring him up. Otherwise, the general election has always been a runoff from the primaries.

      • NeatoEnglish
        10•6 months ago

        Did I say we need to keep fttp voting? Hell no. I advocate against it.

        Good, me too. But you’re not talking about something that will take years to decades. You’re talking about November. Try to stay on the topic you yourself raised and try not to increase voter apathy with your pointless whining. You know who wants democrats and leftists to be disillusioned about voting for Biden? Trump supporters. So try not to sound like them.