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Opinion: Why I’m resigning from the State Department | CNN (edition.cnn.com)

submitted 2 years ago by WhatWouldKarlDo@lemmygrad.ml to c/us_news@lemmygrad.ml

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One more disillusioned by the lies.

Whatever credibility the United States had as an advocate for human rights has almost entirely vanished since the war began. Members of civil society have refused to respond to my efforts to contact them. Our office seeks to support journalists in the Middle East; yet when asked by NGOs if the US can help when Palestinian journalists are detained or killed in Gaza, I was disappointed that my government didn’t do more to protect them. Ninety Palestinian journalists in Gaza have been killed in the last five months, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists. That is the most recorded in any single conflict since the CPJ started collecting data in 1992.

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[–] MarxMadness@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 2 years ago

This is a step in the right direction for this person, and losing people usually makes an organization's work harder for those who remain. We want to support both of those things even if it's also fair to ask questions like "what took so long?" or "why aren't you doing more?" One might even call it critical support.