“I’ve never seen anything like it,” said Josh Paul, a former top State Department official.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken, left, looks on as President Joe Biden speaks during a cabinet meeting in the Cabinet Room of the White House on January 5, 2023, in Washington, D.C.In a highly unusual move, the White House has requested for it to be able to conduct arms deals with Israel in complete secrecy, without oversight from Congress or the public — in a time when the U.S. is supporting a military that experts say has been committing war crimes in Gaza and beyond.
Experts have said that the move is alarming and rare. “I’ve never seen anything like it,” Josh Paul, the former director of congressional and public affairs for the Bureau of Political-Military Affairs in the State Department, told. Within the State Department, where he worked for 11 years, Paul helped the bureau in its work on arms deals and resigned in protest of a push to increase arms sales to Israel amid its genocidal siege on Gaza.
The request comes as the Biden administration has sought to crush dissent on its support of Israel, even within its own ranks. A new report bythat Biden officials are sidelining work within the State Department on the atrocities that Israel is committing in Gaza, seeking to seemingly cover up the issue and disallow employees from speaking up against the genocide.
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