Two administration officials who resigned from the Biden administration because of its support for Israel during the Gaza war said many others in the administration are unhappy with the president’s foreign policy.
“It feels like a dam has broken,” Tariq Habash, a political appointee to Biden’s predecessor, told CNN. “We have a lot of people who worked within the system trying to speak out through the proper channels about what they witnessed.”
“We are supplying weapons and funding the continued violence against innocent Palestinian civilians,” he added. “I think people are beginning to realize that no matter what they do or say, their voices are not being heard. And unfortunately, I think they are beginning to come to the same conclusions that myself and Lily have.”
Asked what he was hearing from others in the administration, Habash said, “People are fed up.”
“I think they reached the limit of what they felt they had done,” Habash added.
Two former members of Biden’s administration resigned over its support for Israel during the Gaza war, saying a “dam had broken” within Washington. (Screenshot/CNN)
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Habash appeared on CNN alongside Lili Greenberg Kohl, a Jewish activist who also resigned from the Biden administration over Gaza policy — the first Jewish political appointee to do so — after airstrikes in the Gaza Strip reportedly killed dozens of civilians over the past week, sparking international outrage.
“Unfortunately, I think there’s a culture of silence within some of these agencies,” Cole said. “People are afraid to speak up, but I know that people within the government have been letting their superiors know for months that they oppose this policy, that they think it’s disastrous in many ways, and I believe what we saw over the weekend only reinforces that.”
“Tanks are rolling into western Rafah and people are being burned alive in their tents. I can’t imagine that this is not aggression. I can’t imagine that massacring 45 civilians is aggression. I think there was a recent attack that killed over 20 people in the last 12 hours and this is aggression, this is violence against civilians and it’s US weapons being used to massacre innocent Palestinian civilians,” Cole said.
“Biden is currently violating U.S. law by continuing to send weapons to a military that refuses to respect international human rights,” she added.
Smoke rises from an Israeli military attack near Al Shifa Hospital in Gaza City on March 28, 2024, during the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas group. (AFP via Getty Images)
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“Everybody that I know is on the same page as us,” Cole said, “and whether or not they felt empowered to go public with that and resign over it is another matter, as Tariq said, but when the majority of people on the inside feel like they’re not being heard, when the majority of the American people feel like they’re not being heard, I think that’s a big problem for the administration.”
Habash agreed, claiming that there are people like him across multiple institutions.
“We know that dozens of people have already left,” he said. “They’re coming from all over the place. I’m not going to name all the agencies, but some have left from the White House, some have left from agencies that are working directly on this issue, some have left from agencies that aren’t working on it at all.”
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