Annelle Sheline talks about quitting her job at the US State Department due to frustration over ‘naive’ Israel policy.
In this episode, Annelle Sheline tells host Steve Clemons that the contradictions in US policy toward Israel’s war in Gaza made her job as a State Department officer in the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor “so difficult”. Sheline announced her resignation publicly on March 27.
And Khaled Elgindy, a political scientist at the Middle East Institute, argues that US President Joe Biden is a big factor in the country’s stagnant policy toward Israel – supporting the war, with some alleviation of the humanitarian crisis. “Most people in the administration have probably moved on in their thinking,” Elgindy says.
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A Bangladeshi soldier stands guard along a street amid the anti-quota protests, in Dhaka on July 20, 2024. (Photo by Munir Uz Zaman / AFP) Dhaka: Bangladesh's
Anti-quota protesters clash with the police in Dhaka on July 18, 2024. Bangladesh woke on July 19 to survey destruction left by the deadliest day of ongoing st
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