Editor's Note: Annelle Sheline, PhD, served for a year as a foreign affairs officer at the Office of Near Eastern Affairs in the Department of State's Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor. The views expressed here are her own.
The final two paragraphs
I am haunted by the final social media post of Aaron Bushnell, the 25-year-old US Air Force serviceman who self-immolated in front of the Israeli Embassy in Washington on February 25: "Many of us like to ask ourselves, 'What would I do if I was alive during slavery? Or the Jim Crow South? Or apartheid? What would I do if my country was committing genocide?' The answer is, you're doing it. Right now."
I can no longer continue what I was doing. I hope that my resignation can contribute to the many efforts to push the administration to withdraw support for Israel's war, for the sake of the 2 million Palestinians whose lives are at risk and for the sake of America's moral standing in the world.
I am shocked to see CNN publish an article accusing the Biden administration of having blood on their hands. It's correct obviously which is why I'm shocked CNN published it.
cynically, probably a lot fewer eyes on an online op ed on cnn.com than jake tapper's extreme zionism on nightly news
The atomic unit of propaganda isn't lies, it's emphasis
Gotta throw the Proles a bone to make it seem like the system is capable of change from within, and all that.