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.

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    i hope these people are happy if they succeed in torpedoing biden and getting trump elected

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      Trump is a nightmare and must be stopped at all costs.

      That doesn’t mean there can’t be calls for Biden to do better or call him out for blatant lies.

      In what reality is the person refusing to lie to cover up human rights abuses the bad guy?

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        if biden wins the election, i’ll carry on shitting on him right along with everyone else.

        at this point, people need to internalize the AT ALL COSTS part of of your first sentence. because drawing attention to biden’s problems does nothing but help trump

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          So Biden can do anything he wants up to the election? Why would he give a shit after the election?

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      Are you talking about the state department losing Biden the election? It would be amazing if they stopped lying to cover for Israel. That would increase Bidens chances of winning.