Josh Paul, a director at the State Department’s Bureau of Political-Military Affairs, publicly resigned from his position Wednesday, citing his opposition to the “continued lethal assistance” the U.S. government is providing to Israel. …

“The fact is, blind support for one side is destructive in the long term to the interests of the people on both sides,” he wrote. “I fear we are repeating the same mistakes we have made these past decades, and I decline to be a part of it for longer.”

[How did this fool rise to this level in the State Department? Hamas just swept through southern Israel on a murder/rape/kidnapping spree on a scope not seen since Genghis Khan. The policy mistakes of the past decades have all been in treating Hamas as though it was something other than a terrorist network bent on annihilating Jews and wiping Israel off the face of the map, both of which Hamas has openly declared as its ambitions. Even Israel is guilty of that mistake, and it’s credulous clowns like Paul who made those mistakes. If you can’t muster the energy to support an ally against an annihilationist enemy after a terror wave like 10/7, then you’re not an ally at all. — Ed]