Habash, a Palestinian-American who worked at the Department of Education
Last October, an official who criticized Israeli arms support resigned.
In the United States, the Washington Post (WP) and CNN reported on the 3rd (local time) that a federal government official who criticized the Joe Biden administration’s response to the war between Israel and the Palestinian armed faction Hamas has resigned.
According to reports, a policy aide at the U.S. Department of Education who worked in the Biden campaign during the 2020 U.S. presidential election and was in charge of student loan issues in the Biden administration resigned by submitting a letter of resignation on this day.
“I cannot speak for an administration that does not treat all lives equally,” said Tariq Habassi, who resigned from the Department of Education. “I cannot remain silent about this administration turning a blind eye to the atrocities committed against innocent Palestinians.” “Human rights experts are calling this a genocide committed by the Israeli government,” he said.
“As Israel’s strongest ally, we cannot be complicit in this administration’s failure to block Israel’s abuses and tactics of collective punishment that have led to widespread disease and starvation in the Gaza Strip by cutting off food, water, electricity, fuel, and medical supplies.” He claimed…
He is a Palestinian-American who worked as an appointed civil servant in the Biden administration for nearly three years.
Israel and its supporters said that the high number of deaths in the Gaza Strip was due to Hamas’ strategy of using civilians as shields, and that they could not accept linking their military operations to genocide.
President Biden said that Israel had no other option than to defeat Hamas, and that Israel tried to minimize civilian casualties during the operation.
Habash is the second official to resign due to dissatisfaction with the Biden administration’s related policies. Josh Paul, a career civil servant who worked at the U.S. State Department for 11 years, resigned in October last year, protesting against unconditional arms support to Israel.
Source: Donga
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