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.

  • @MegaUltraChicken@lemmy.world
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    26 months ago

    You should first accept that based on all the information we have currently, Biden isn’t viable as a candidate, and that by continuing to promote the position that Biden is the only option when they obviously aren’t even an option at this point.

    This is pure conjecture. You have not provided any viable alternative. Once you do that we can discuss other options and if Biden is actually less viable.

    Can you point to a single misleading or inaccurate statement I’ve made about Joe Biden or the Democrats? Where have I ignored criticism? Everything else you say is based on this false and misleading premise that you’ve created and continuously cycle back to. You’re claiming that my strategy is flawed without providing evidence of alternatives. It’s amusing that you’ve written the same thing this many times to avoid backing up your claim but I think I’m good for now. You’re just going to keep playing games. Luckily it’s pretty obvious at this point.

    See you later!

    • @TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world
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      -16 months ago

      Its not a false premise whatsoever that Biden will not be the next president. Its the constant theme in all the data we have available to us on the matter.

      First approval polls:

      On this date of Trumps presidency, he was dick deep in covid and maybe the most uncertain period of time in recent history.

      Even with all that, he had five points on Biden: 42.6 to 37.8. Trump remained a one term president.

      Same date of George H.W. Bush’s presidency, Bush had 3 points on Biden, at 40.

      Jimmy Carter, another one term president. 40.7 on today’s date in his presidency.

      Literally every single one term President of the last 60 years was polling higher than Joe Biden is currently polling, at this exact point in their presidency.

      Presidents that won a second term? ALL of them were beating Bidens currently approval by 10 points or better on this date of their presidency. And more importantly, their polling percentage over time was rising, as in, going up and to the right. Bidens polling isn’t going up and to the right. Its going down. He’s not gaining traction, he’s losing it.

      Now onto head to head polls:

      Biden over-polls by about 4%, Trump under-polls by about 8% when compared to real election results:

      How is Biden polling in a head to head? He’s losing to Trump, and has been losing to Trump in head to head polling for over 400 days. Out of the last 50 polls, Biden has lost 47 of them in a head to head with Trump. Thats not accounting for differential sampling error. If you account for the typical pattern of sampling error we would associate with a Biden v Trump head to head, Biden has won precisely 0 polls against Trump in the last 400 days.

      If the election were tomorrow, it wouldn’t even be close. Trump would win in a blow out.

      You need to pull your head out of the sand.