CNN’s Christiane Amanpour spoke to the latest US State Department official to resign in protest of the Biden administration’s continued support of Israel as the humanitarian crisis in Gaza grows.
Annelle Sheline was interviewed by Amanpour on CNN International after she published an op-ed on CNN.com explaining her very public resignation:
For the past year, I worked for the office devoted to promoting human rights in the Middle East. I believe strongly in the mission and in the important work of that office. However, as a representative of a government that is directly enabling what the International Court of Justice has said could plausibly be a genocide in Gaza, such work has become almost impossible. Unable to serve an administration that enables such atrocities, I have decided to resign from my position at the Department of State.
Whatever credibility the United States had as an advocate for human rights has almost entirely vanished since the …