A longtime State Department employee announced he would be resigning from his position because of "a policy disagreement concerning our continued lethal assistance to Israel."
Josh Paul, who worked in the Bureau of Political-Military Affairs since 2011, explained his rationale for leaving the State Department in a lengthy letter posted on LinkedIn, where he expressed his disagreement with the Biden administration's policy toward aiding the Jewish State.
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"In my 11 years I have made more moral compromises than I can recall, each heavily, but each with my promise to myself in mind, and intact. I am leaving today because I believe that in our current course with regards to the continued — indeed, expanded and expedited — provision of lethal arms to Israel — I have reached the end of that bargain," Paul wrote
He condemned the terrorist attack by Hamas on Israel that sparked the current conflict but also said that Israel's response to the terrorist attacks will lead "to more and deeper suffering," using terms such as "occupation" to describe the situation in Israel.
"But I believe to the core of my soul that 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 - and is not in the long term American interest," he said.
He concluded the letter by calling for peace and discussing the people "caught in the middle" of the conflicts.
"It is my firm belief that in such conflicts, for those of us who are third parties, the side we must pick is not that of one of the combatants, but that of the people caught in the middle, and that of the generations yet to come," he said. "It is our responsibility to help the warring parties build a better world."
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President Joe Biden has been firm in his support of Israel, saying the country has a right to defend itself after the Oct. 7 terrorist attack and assuring that "we're gonna provide them everything they need."
Israel declared war against Hamas, the first time it had declared war since 1973, shortly after the attacks earlier this month. The conflict has killed at least 5,000 people in Israel and Gaza since the first attacks by Hamas, according to the Associated Press. The State Department has said that at least 30 Americans are among the dead in Israel.