"We Have Lost All Credibility": Hala Rharrit on Quitting State Dept. & Ending Complicity in Gaza

[Uncle Joe]

As human rights groups continue to call out war crimes committed by the Israeli military, we speak to the only U.S. diplomat to publicly resign from the Biden administration over its policy on Israel. We first spoke to Hala Rharrit when she resigned from the State Department in April, citing the illegal and deceptive nature of U.S. policy in the Middle East. "We continue to willfully violate laws so that we surge U.S. military assistance to Israel," she says after more than a year of Israel's war on Gaza. Rharrit says she found the Biden administration unmovable in its "counterproductive policy," which she believes has gravely harmed U.S. interests in the Middle East. "We are going to feel the repercussions of that for years, decades, generations."

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[murielm99]

1. How about Democracy Not speaks to someone from the State Department who has not resigned?

And how about the status of the hostages? Democracy not is useless.

[Uncle Joe]

2. If you don't view the video, you will never know. n/t

[Gaugamela]

3. DN has talked about the hostages, and

interviewed relatives, and talked about how Netanyahu has completely abandoned them. And how mainstream news stovepipes the hasbara to the American people. DN frequently has scholarly guests on, both Jewish and Muslim, who actually know what they're talking about. That's how we know you never watch it.