Ammon News - A US State Department official who worked on arms transfers to foreign nations has resigned over the Biden administration’s handling of Israel’s war on Gaza, calling the White House’s response “an impulsive reaction” based on “intellectual bankruptcy”.

Josh Paul, who worked in the State Department’s Bureau of Political-Military Affairs, said he could no longer support further US military assistance to Israel.

“I cannot work in support of a set of major policy decisions, including rushing more arms to one side of the conflict, that I believe to be short-sighted, destructive, unjust and contradictory to the very values that we publicly espouse,” Mr Paul wrote in his resignation letter posted on LinkedIn on Thursday.

Mr Paul had spent more than 11 years in his position, which co-ordinates relations with Congress and handles public messaging for an important office that deals with military aid.

He said his specific role handling weapons deals did not come without “moral complexity and moral compromises”.

“I made myself a promise that I would stay for as long as I felt I the harm I might do could be outweighed by the good I could do,” he wrote.

“I am leaving today because I believe that in our current course with regards to the continued – indeed, expanded and expedited – provision of lethal arms to Israel, I have reached the end of that bargain.”

The National News