Maj. Harrison Mann, in a resignation letter formally submitted on November 1, distributed internally on April 16, and published on LinkedIn on Monday, expressed the U.S. government’s unquestioned support for its allies. It claims that it “enabled and empowered” the killing of Palestinian civilians.
“The policy that has stuck with me for the past six months is the near-unconditional support for the Israeli government that enabled and empowered the murder and starvation of tens of thousands of innocent Palestinians,” Mann said. he wrote in a letter. . “This unconditional support also encourages reckless escalation that risks wider war.”
Mann, an executive with the military intelligence agency DIA, spent 13 years in the Army, about half of which focused on the Middle East and Africa. He also previously worked at the U.S. Embassy in Tunis, according to his LinkedIn bio.
“Each of us signed up for service knowing that we might have to support policies with which we are not fully convinced,” Mann wrote. “At some point, you either promote a system that enables the mass starvation of children, for whatever good reason, or you don’t.”
Mann is one of several U.S. officials to resign, citing disagreements with the administration over its handling of the Israel-Hamas war, sparked by deadly Hamas-led attacks in Israel in October. It is.
Mann, who had already planned to retire from the Army at some point, said his work “unquestionably contributes to U.S. support for Israel, no matter how administrative or trivial it may seem.” He said he could not object to that.
More than 35,000 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza over seven months in brutal air and ground operations by the Israeli military. This figure rises thanks to Israel’s continued invasion of the region’s southern city of Rafah, where more than 1 million civilians have fled, and further bombing of the Gaza Strip, which it already claims is free of Hamas. continues to do so.
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