The third US State Dept official and the first foreign service officer to resign over #Gaza tells NPR tonight: "it's a very strange time in the State Dept, something like I have never experienced in my 18 years of service.
"Our unconditional military aid made it impossible for us to have any credibility even for the good things we were doing."
Former State Dept official Hala Rharrit to Antony Blinken:
"Please stop the violence and the unconditional military support. This is causing a generational cycle of violence. Just think about the 20,000 orphans in Gaza. How are they going to grow up wanting peace... This vicious cycle is only enabling more insecurity, more hate, more destabilization. The answer is not more bombs. The answer is diplomacy. The answer is leveraging our influence with Israel..."
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