Cracks in the Wall of the U.S. Government Due to its Support of Israel's Genocide

The center is not holding. Government officials are resigning and in other ways protesting the government's oppressive role.

Turning and turning in the widening gyre   

The falcon cannot hear the falconer;

Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;

So begins The Second Coming BY WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

Some U.S. officials are so appalled at U.S. immoral support for Israel’s genocide of Palestinians that they are speaking out, even resigning. People don’t sign up to work in the government or serve in the military for the purpose of doing evil. Cracks in the wall. The center is not holding.

One of the most significant things about this opposition within the government to the government’s immoral oppressive role is this. It illustrates that when we build a movement that explicitly aims for what most people want—to remove the rich (who are the ones promoting genocide and warmongering) from power to have real, not fake, democracy with no rich and no poor—, for what is moral instead of immoral, that we will have the support, even if only at first secretly or very cautiously expressed, of a great number of people in the government and in the armed forces. When the revolutionary movement grows large enough, it will be able to prevail against the ruling billionaire plutocracy because a critical mass of people in the government and in the armed forces will refuse orders to attack the movement, as I discuss here.

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From this article:

Sheline’s resignation followed another State Department official, Josh Paul, a director in the Bureau of Political-Military Affairs, who resigned in October of last year, and Department of Education official Tariq Habash, a Palestinian American and Biden political appointee, who resigned in January.

Speaking to Al Jazeera, Habash said Sheline’s decision to leave underscored how the United States’s standing both at home and abroad has diminished amid the war in Gaza.

“It’s not surprising that there are people who tried to do important and critical work related to human rights at the State Department who felt like they were unable to do their job,” he said.

“It’s not surprising that [Sheline] felt like the only way that she can make an impact is by leaving, because in almost six months we’ve seen no substantive change in policy, and our influence at the international stage seems to be disintegrating by the day,” he said.

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For his part, Habash described Sheline’s departure as “a really big moment” that shines a light on the internal dissent within the Biden administration.

That has included letters signed by staffers with USAID and the Department of Homeland Security, protest actions by federal workers, and a growing number of legislators in Biden’s Democratic Party calling for a full ceasefire or at least for aid to be conditioned.

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“I think it will continue to send a message to the president, the secretary of state and to the world that even though the United States policy hasn’t changed, there are a lot of people who fundamentally disagree with the position that our government and our elected officials have taken,” he said. “And we are finding ways every single day to communicate that in whatever ways we know how to.”

In a post on LinkedIn, former State Department official Paul also said he was “so proud of” Sheline for becoming “the third US official to publicly resign over the absolute disaster that is the Biden Administration’s continuing support for Israel’s war crimes, bombings, and starvation of innocent civilians in Gaza”.

“Who’s next?” he said.

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Feds United for Peace, a group of anonymous federal employees across 27 government agencies who formed in opposition to the war, hailed Sheline as “courageous”, while adding her decision “comes at a personal and real cost to her, and is a loss of a patriotic and deeply qualified employee for the Department of State”.

Her departure “speaks for itself, and also reflects the outrage and demoralisation felt by millions of Americans and thousands of federal government workers”, the group said.

For her part, Sheline recounted to the Washington Post that she had been hesitant to go public with her decision to discontinue her work at the department, fearing she was not “senior enough” to make an impact. She said she was supported by colleagues who were unable to resign because they had other considerations and commitments.

“I know I’m foreclosing any sort of future at the State Department, or maybe even in the US government,” she said. “Which I think is unfortunate because I really valued the work that I was doing there.”

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