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Democracy Now
March 28, 2024
A State Department official working on human rights issues in the Middle East resigned Wednesday in protest of U.S. support for Israel's assault on Gaza.
Annelle Sheline, who worked as foreign affairs officer in the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, was not planning on publicly resigning, but her colleagues ask her to "please speak out" against the Biden administration's unconditional support for Israel.
"At the end of the day, many people inside [the State Department] know that this is a horrific policy, and can't believe that the United States government is engaged in such actions that contravene American values so directly, but the leadership is not listening," says Sheline.
"I'm trying to speak on behalf of those many, many people who feel so betrayed by our government's stance."
Sheline describes being moved by the words of Aaron Bushnell, the active-duty airman who set himself on fire outside the Israeli Embassy in protest of the war on Gaza, who implored everyone to take a stand against genocide.
"I have a young daughter, and I thought about, in the future, if she were to ask me, 'What were you doing when this was happening? You were at the State Department.' I want to be able to tell her that I didn't stay silent."
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https://democracynow.org/2024/3/28/annelle_sheline
JohnSJ
(92,528 posts)anti-Hillary, anti-Democratic party Now, network
She has only been with this job about a year, and she didnt realize what the US policy was before she took the job?
Not the sharpest tack in the box
Wonder who she will vote for in November
Tarheel_Dem
(31,257 posts)"supporting" Democrats, especially since she has done everything but....
brush
(53,978 posts)Seems the timing is off.
maxsolomon
(33,473 posts)continuing to supply arms to an ally we've supplied arms to for decades after they come under attack from state-sponsored terrorists?
not forcing that ally to unilaterally ceasefire and withdraw from Gaza?
malaise
(269,328 posts)That is all
maxsolomon
(33,473 posts)Is this woman under the impression that's the policy?
iemanja
(53,137 posts)Perhaps having to execute it on a daily basis?
maxsolomon
(33,473 posts)And this
iemanja
(53,137 posts)It's only dead Palestinians. Get with the program.
Clearly, not all lives are equal.