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.

      • gladflag
        62·
        5 months ago

        You seem to love throwing out insults to people who seem to genuinely want a better world. Pretty weird why to try encourage a movement of the people against the government. Learn to exist in a community. Even if you don’t agree with everything people say. Try to find the common ground, I can see it.

        • gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          2·
          5 months ago

          I feel like the question has been pretty straight forward

          It was, they answered it, you’re just pushing more because you don’t realize you failed your gotcha.

          You asked:

          What do you want me to do differrently

          And they answered with what they wanted you to do. What you do specifically about voting is irrelevant as that was not the topic at hand.

          • lolcatnip@reddthat.comEnglish
            11·
            5 months ago

            They did not answer the question that was asked. Saying it’s irrelevant doesn’t change that fact.

            • gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
              2·
              5 months ago

              The question: what do you want us to do differently?

              The answer: Mass protests. Civil disobedience. The kinda of things that ended slavery and helped raise women’s rights. The things we used to do instead of sitting down and just taking it.

              God, that was hard

            • gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
              1·
              5 months ago

              We are talking about voting or not voting for Biden

              No, you tried to make it about that after someone else commented without specification on that front.

              And let’s even concede you don’t find the first comment adequate, the follow up comments clearly ask it over and over

              Oh no, why didn’t people respect the moved goalposts?

              Fucking Idiot you are, bud