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.”
Geopolitics, i was curious so I looked it up. Seems like Israel is one of the only friendly countries in the middle east, which gives us access to oil in the region.
I used to think that too, but the geopolitical reason was always “stability.” We’ve gone and spread our access to oil well enough that no one source should hinder our ability to get what we need.
I think their geopolitical reasons are just lies at this point.
Also, I’m pretty sure Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Jordan, and Egypt have all pretty much done everything the US wanted them to for years now
Thanks in part to the US military base in the region known as Israel perhaps?
Israel does not allow US military bases. Saudi Arabi, Qatar, Bahrain and Kuwait do though
I’m calling Israel a US military base.
That’s pretty spot on
Nope. Thanks to billions of US dollars.
It’s worse than that. The US is a net oil exporter. We make all the oil we need at home.
Look at a map of US bases in the region. None of them are in Israel. It is not a strategic country.
Israel is also the reason Israel is one of the only friendly countries in the Middle East