My work here — however administrative or marginal it appeared — has unquestionably contributed to that support. The past months have presented us with the most horrific and heartbreaking images imaginable… and I have been unable to ignore the connection between those images and my duties here. This caused me incredible shame and guilt... This unconditional support also encourages reckless escalation that risks wider war... It is clear that this week, some of you will still be asked to provide support — directly or indirectly — to the Israeli military as it conducts operations into Rafah and elsewhere in Gaza... At some point — whatever the justification — you’re either advancing a policy that enables the mass starvation of children, or you’re not. And I want to clarify that as the descendant of European Jews, I was raised in a particularly unforgiving moral environment when it came to the topic of bearing responsibility for ethnic cleansing.
(Mann was a U.S. Army officer working at the Defense Intelligence Agency who resigned, citing his objection to Israel’s war in Gaza, according to an open letter he published online Monday saying he is distressed that his work has contributed to the deaths of Palestinian civilians.)
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