A US diplomat who resigned over President Joe Biden’s handling of the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas has said he feels the US is on the “wrong side of history”.
Hala Harit, the first US diplomat to resign over the Biden administration’s policies regarding the war between Israel and Hamas, said she had no “intentions to resign” after 18 years at the State Department.
“I intended to continue my career until I reached the senior level,” Lalit explained. CNN. “I had no intention of quitting.”
Before resigning, Mr. Lalit served as the State Department’s Arabic press secretary for a year and a half.
On October 7, 2023, Hamas launched attacks on Israel by land, sea, and air, killing 1,200 people and leaving more than 200 dead.
In this attack, approximately 3,000 Hamas terrorists invaded Israel and killed concertgoers at a music festival, while other terrorists hunted down Jewish men, women, and children, and many were tortured and raped. , even exposed to death.
In response to this attack, Israel launched a self-defense operation in Gaza, an area controlled by Hamas.
Lalit said that after the attack, she and some colleagues felt “terrified” and wondered “what will happen next.”
“Everyone was bracing themselves, saying, ‘Oh my god, what’s going to happen next?'” Lalit said, adding that although they knew Israel would fight back strongly, “the result was 34,000. He added that he did not expect people to be killed. People in Gaza deal with ‘starvation conditions’.
People living in northern Gaza are reportedly facing starvation as the war between Israel and Hamas continues.
Biden said his support for Israel is “ironclad” in the wake of the Hamas attack.
“I have a fundamental fear that we are on the wrong side of history and that it is harming our interests,” Lalit explained.
Lalit’s resignation in April followed the resignation in October of Josh Paul, former director of Congressional and Public Affairs in the State Department’s Political-Military Bureau over the Biden administration’s arms deliveries to Israel.
