US does ‘what the Israelis want’ on Palestine: Ex-diplomat
A former US State Department official says he quit the administration of President Joe Biden earlier this year amid frustration with its inaction on Israel's genocidal war on Gaza, stressing that Washington does "what the Israelis want" on Palestine.
In an interview with The Guardian published on Wednesday, Mike Casey, who resigned in July as the State Department’s deputy political counselor on Gaza, said the US administration disregarded his daily updates on the brutal Israeli aggression against the besieged territory.
“I got so tired of writing about dead kids,” he added. “Just constantly having to prove to Washington that these children actually died and then watching nothing happen.”
He also said his colleagues used to joke that they could attach cash to the reports on Gaza and still nobody would read them.
Casey, a US Army veteran who served in Iraq, further noted that he and his colleagues developed comprehensive strategies for Gaza’s reconstruction, only to have them systematically rejected.
“Every idea we came up with, [the Biden administration] would just say, ‘Well, the Israelis have another idea,'" he emphasized.
Meanwhile, he said that the United States' use of its leverage in negotiations with Israeli officials was completely different form that he saw in his previous diplomatic postings in Malaysia, China and Pakistan.
“In Malaysia, if you didn’t cooperate, you could get sanctioned. With Pakistan, we could pull training programs, stop certain aid," he explained.
“But with the Israelis, it’s completely different. They just have to drag out negotiations and we’ll eventually agree to whatever they want.”
The former diplomat also highlighted a systemic failure in US strategy towards Palestinians, asserting, “We don’t have a policy on Palestine. We just do what the Israelis want us to do.”
Washington's support for Israel during its bloody Gaza onslaught has spurred over a dozen US administration officials to resign and blast Washington for turning a blind eye to the regime's atrocities against Palestinians.
Israel unleashed its genocidal war on Gaza on October 7, 2023, after the Palestinian Hamas resistance group carried out a surprise operation against the usurping entity in retaliation for its intensified atrocities against the Palestinian people.
So far, the Tel Aviv regime has killed at least 45,129 Palestinians, mostly women and children, and injured 107,338 others.
Last month, the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued arrest warrants for Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former minister of military affairs Yoav Gallant for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza.
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