US says it does not want Hamas in Gaza after conflict ends
State Department spokesperson Vedant Patel says the US does not want to see Hamas being the “governing authority” in Gaza. “We have been pretty clear also that we do not want to see Hamas in charge of Gaza any more,” Patel said, speaking to reporters.
This is something that US Secretary of State Antony Blinken “laid out last fall when talking about certain principles that the United States views as nonstarters when we’re talking about the day after this conflict ends”, Patel said.
I don't want Trump in office, but it's up to Americans to decide that... If you don't want Hamas to stay in power, give Palestinians a reason not to have to rally behind a resistance group anymore. If not, another 'Hamas' will rise up.
US official resigns, says Biden administration funding and enabling ‘Israel’s genocide of Palestinians’
Maryam Hassanein, a former special assistant at the US Department of Interior, said in her resignation statement that she could not continue to work for an administration that ignores its staff on the issue.
“After months of Israel’s brutal violence, including the murders of over 37,000 Palestinians and the intentional starvation of millions of Palestinians, the only way I know how to make my voice heard and meaningfully represent my community is to leave,” Hassanein, who identifies herself as a Muslim American, said.
“Arab and Muslim communities in the US have watched in horror as the Israeli military has struck mosques, churches, hospitals, playgrounds, and schools, destroying entire cities in Gaza while killing thousands of people in Gaza of all religions and ethnicities with US-supplied munitions,” Hassanein added. “Instead of using US leverage to stop the killing, President Biden has continued funding this violence, while fueling hate crimes against Palestinian Americans by repeating anti-Arab tropes and outright lies.”
And for the democrats, stop giving people reasons not to vote for Biden.
Biden administration resignees say Gaza policy ensures ‘vicious cycle of poverty and hopelessness’
12 administration resignees have released a joint statement in which they said Biden’s policy on Gaza had “failed” and was “devastating for Palestinians”. The statement said the former officials had hoped the administration would change its Gaza policy, but had found it to instead be “intransigent”.
Signatories to the statement included former White House official Anna Del Castillo, former State Department official Josh Paul and Department of Education official Tariq Habash.
US government employees who resigned over Gaza policy release joint statement for first timehttps://www.cnn.com/2024/07/02/politics/us-government-employees-gaza-policy-statement/index.html...
“The Administration’s policy in Gaza is a failure and a threat to U.S. national security,” they write in the joint statement, titled “Service in Dissent.”
“America’s diplomatic cover for, and continuous flow of arms to, Israel has ensured our undeniable complicity in the killings and forced starvation of a besieged Palestinian population in Gaza. This is not only morally reprehensible and in clear violation of international humanitarian law and U.S. laws, but it has also put a target on America’s back,” they continue, arguing that it has put the lives of service members and diplomats at risk.
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