US official resigns over Biden’s ‘destructive, unjust’ arms to Israel

Josh Paul condemns administration's intellectual bankruptcy' in providing weapons and for its support of status quo of occupation'

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A veteran US state department official has quit over what he described as the Biden administration's intellectual bankruptcy" in sending more weapons and ammunition to Israel, as Gaza health officials said Israeli bombing had killed more than 3,700 people.

Josh Paul, the director of congressional and public affairs for the state department's Bureau of Political-Military Affairs, said in a letter posted on LinkedIn that the government rushing" to provide arms to Israel was shortsighted, destructive, unjust, and contradictory to the very values that we publicly espouse".