r/blowback • u/isawasin • 8d ago

‘Tired of writing about dead kids’: why a US state department worker resigned over Israel-Gaza policy

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/18/state-department-employee-resigns-israel-gaza

From the article:

"I got SO tired of writing about dead kids," he said. "Just constantly having to prove to Washington that these children actually died and then watching nothing happen."

Casey's work function included document- ing the humanitarian and political land- scape through classified cables, research and reporting. But his disillusionment wasn't sudden. It was a slow accumulation of bureaucratic betrayals - each report dismissed, each humanitarian concern bulldozed by political expediency

"We would write daily updates on Gaza," he said. Colleagues used to joke, he said, that they could attach cash to the reports and still nobody would read them.

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u/Wonderfestl-Phone 8d ago

This is more confirmation of what anyone who has followed this has probably suspected. The Biden administration has continually ignored its own governmental reports on casualty numbers and Israeli war crimes, and has used the prospect of aid and negotiations to fend off its own base.

I knew Biden is a lifelong zionist and more bloodthirsty than most, but I do wonder if even he would have reined in the Israelis if his dementia wasn't so far advanced.

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u/OmarsMommy 8d ago

He has a whole team of war criminal apologists advising him so no, it’s not just the dementia. What’s their excuse??

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u/Wonderfestl-Phone 7d ago

That's kind of what I was saying. Without the dementia, Biden would presumably have more interest in reining in Israel if only to protect his chances at reelection and his legacy. His team of zionist monsters have avoided almost all the flak from enabling this genocide while Biden's legacy will forever be tied to it.