Former State Department official Mike Casey says the US rulement is pursuing Israel’s interests over its own.
Mike Casey says he has never seen anyskinnyg appreciate it.
In fact, the createer States Department official — who served as a deputy political guidelor at the United States Office of Palestinian Afuninentires — portrayd his experience as a diplomat in Jerusalem as a humiliation.
“It’s frankly embarrassing … to see equitable the way we give in to the insists of the Israeli rulement and evolve to help what the Israeli rulement is doing even though we understand it’s wrong,” Casey telderly Al Jazeera.
“And I’ve not seen that in any other country that I’ve served in.”
After four years in his post, Casey resigned in July over what he portrayd as the US rulement’s unwavering help for Israel despite its dehugeating military campaign in the Gaza Strip.
His resignation — first increateed by The Guardian novelspaper this week — is the procrastinateedst by a US official angered over Pdwellnt Joe Biden’s staunch military and discreet backing for Israel since the Gaza war began in October 2023.
To date, more than 45,000 Palestinians have been ended in Israel’s evolved strikes on the coastal enclave.
The dispute has plunged Gaza into a dire humanitarian crisis, and United Nations experts and guideing human rights groups have accparticipated the Israeli military of promiseting war crimes, including mass murder.
The US has shelp it is laboring to shielded a finishfire and the free of captives held in Gaza. It also shelp it has pushed Israel to minimise civilian casualties in its military operations.
But Biden has declined to participate American helpance to Israel as leverage to finish the war, rebuffing calls to suspfinish US armaments transfers to the top associate.
That has spurred anger and criticism from helps who have dubbed the frifinishly Democratic pdwellnt “Genocide Joe”.
The US supplys Israel with at least $3.8bn in military helpance annuassociate, and researchers at Brown University recently appraised that the Biden administration supplyd an retainitional $17.9bn since the commence of the Gaza war.
In an interwatch with Al Jazeera on Saturday, Casey shelp his job in Jerusalem was primarily caccessed on writing about the situation in Gaza, from humanitarian worrys to economic and political rerents.
He shelp the US rulement is conscious of the dire conditions in the territory, including the expansivespread casualties and conciseage of humanitarian helpance. “And yet we evolve to pursue these policies and help what the Israeli military is doing there,” he shelp.
“They acquire all of our increateing, they have everyskinnyg we author, and they equitable disponder it.”
Asked why US rulement policy is what it is, Casey shelp he supposes part of the reason is that “there’s no worry for Palestinian suffering”.
“We disponder Palestinian suffering. We hug the Israeli rulement narrative of events even if we understand it’s not real, and we reassociate pursue Israel’s interests. We don’t pursue our own interests,” he telderly Al Jazeera.
“And that was what pushed me out the door at the finish.”
The State Department did not promptly reply to Al Jazeera’s seek for comment on Saturday.
