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Recent expressions of regret by top Biden administration officials who vehemently defended the United States\u2019 billions of dollars in military aid to Israel as it was bombarding Gaza have not gone far with former diplomat Hala Rharrit, who was retaliated against for speaking out about the US policy before she ultimately resigned, and who condemned her former colleagues recent \u201cPR game\u201d this week.<\/p>\n

In an interview with Middle East Eye<\/em>, Rharrit said the former officials who have mused that they would now support withholding weapons from Israel, or that they should have backed such a move while serving under President Joe Biden, are \u201cjust so despicable.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re so disgusting,\u201d Rharrit said. \u201cThose individuals, particularly [National Security Adviser] Jake Sullivan and a handful of others, actually had the power to save human lives. They actually had the power to stop unconditional arms assistance to Israel, right? The Israelis were not killing the Palestinians by themselves. The Israelis were killing the Palestinians with American bombs, with American jets, with American everything. We enabled it 100%. They enabled it 100%.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rharrit, who resigned as the Arabic language spokesperson for the US State Department in April 2024, six months into Israel\u2019s US-backed assault \u2014 which has been called a genocide by leading human rights organizations and Holocaust experts \u2014 spoke to MEE<\/em> months after former Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the US should have called for a ceasefire earlier than it did, \u201csuch that the suffering the people endured, the loss of the children, so many others, could have been averted.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sullivan last year said \u2014 weeks before a ceasefire was finally agreed to \u2014 that he\u2019d had a change of heart regarding providing Israel with weapons, and that he would no longer support the policy.<\/p>\n

In November, Sullivan added in an interview with The Dartmouth <\/em>that \u201cit\u2019s fair to say that there were a lot of objections from a lot of parts of the international community about the US continuing to support Israel over the course of last year \u2014 2024 \u2014 and over the course of this year in 2025. I think a lot about what we could have done differently.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rharrit told MEE<\/em> that \u201cit\u2019s despicable that now they\u2019re trying to make themselves look like, \u2018Oh we should have done better and we\u2019re so sorry.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

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The former diplomat emphasized that the apology tour has taken place as it\u2019s become increasingly clear that \u201cAmerica has changed\u201d in terms of its views on Israel, Palestine, and the United States\u2019 decadeslong, unconditional support for the Israeli military \u2014 despite US statutes like the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 and Leahy Laws, which bar the government from providing military aid to countries that block humanitarian assistance and that are accused of human rights abuses.<\/p>\n

A poll released this week showed that large majorities of Democratic voters in the first six states that will vote in the 2028 presidential primaries support cutting off weapons aid to Israel, and another survey by Hart Research Associates and Public Opinion Strategies in March found that just 32% of Americans viewed Israel positively, compared with 47% in 2023.<\/p>\n

\u201cAmerica is forever changed,\u201d said Rharrit. \u201cAmericans no longer support these forever wars, they no longer support unconditional arms assistance to Israel. They no longer agree with US policy in the Middle East. And so now\u2026 they\u2019re doing a PR game. This is just pure PR.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rharrit and other officials who resigned over the US policy on Israel and Gaza \u201cwere vindicated,\u201d she said. \u201cOf course we were right the whole time, because it\u2019s international law. It\u2019s US law. I abided by my oath to the Constitution\u2026 That is exactly what I did. That is exactly why I resigned.\u201d<\/p>\n

Francesca Albanese, the United Nations special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories, said Rharrit is one of \u201ca rare breed\u201d of diplomats.<\/p>\n

\u201cDuring this genocide I\u2019ve met courageous diplomats and officials who denounced it at real personal cost,\u201d said Albanese, whom the Trump administration targeted with sanctions earlier this year. \u201cImagine foreign policy built by more of them. Because the problem is never one unfit minister\/head of state: It\u2019s whole spineless cohorts around them.\u201d<\/p>\n

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