‘We have lost all credibility’ – Hala Rharrit on quitting State Department

As human rights groups continue to call out war crimes committed by the Israeli military, Democracy Now! speaks to the only US diplomat to publicly resign from the Joe Biden administration over its policy on Israel.

It first spoke to Hala Rharrit when she resigned from the US State Department in April, citing the illegal and deceptive nature of US policy in the Middle East. “We continue to willfully violate laws so that we surge US military assistance to Israel,” she says after more than a year of Israel’s war on Gaza.

Rharrit says she found the Biden administration unmovable in its “counterproductive policy”, which she believes has gravely harmed US interests in the Middle East. “We are going to feel the repercussions of that for years, decades, generations.”

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