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.

  • fishos@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1013·
    30 days ago

    It basically only makes sense if corruption is involved. There’s no reasonable moral ground for enabling genocide.

    • Hegar@kbin.social
      223·
      30 days ago

      States just aren’t moral entities - there’s no reasonable moral ground for most anything an imperial power does. It’s almost always just about securing more power.

      But I don’t understand how this makes sense for the democrats from even a realpolitik perspective.

      • fishos@lemmy.worldEnglish
        52·
        30 days ago

        I said this only makes sense if states lack morals(corrupt).

        You say “well states aren’t moral”.

        How are these different enough that you felt the need to downvote me? I’m literally agreeing with you.

        • Hegar@kbin.social
          81·
          30 days ago

          I didn’t downvote. I don’t see you having any down votes. I don’t disagree with you, I just don’t feel that your comment addressed the specific point I was making.

          I don’t disagree that states are devoid of any ethical capabilities, but they’re not cartoon supervillains. When states are cruel, it’s for specific reasons to achieve specific aims.

          I don’t understand what the democrats think they are getting or avoiding with this. To me it looks lose/lose for them.