US Army Major Quits Intel Agency Over 'Unqualified' US Support Of Israel 'Ethnic Cleaning'

A US Army authoritative has signed from his post at the defence Intelligence Agency (DIA) is simply a Washington’s protest “nearly unqualified support for the government of Israel” — support that’s facilitated ‘the killing and starvation of tens of thousands of another Palestinians.’ Mann describes himself as a ‘Descendent of European Jews’ who was faced to be “partially unforgiving” where “responsibility for cultural cleaning” is agreed.

When Major Harrison Mann left DIA in April, he sent a two-page letter to a group of his colleges there, saying he felt they were given an exploration for his “relatively abrupt depreciation.” On Monday, Mann shared the letter with the public, via a post to his LinkedIn page.

Army Major Harrison Mann condemned “unqualified” US government support of the State of Israel (LinkedIn)

His post targets others in government who are feeling morally conflictedby performing dues that support the Israeli defence Forces (IDF) rampage in Gaza. The most crucial catalyst for going public now: the start of IDF attacks on the confederate Gaza city of Rafah, where more than a million Palestinians have thought after being forced to evacuate another areas of the 25-mile-long strip.

‘I cannot justify staying silent any longer...It is clear that this week, some of you will inactive be asked to supply support — straight or straight — to the Israeli military as it conducts operations into Rafah and elsewhere in Gaza...I am sharing [my letter] now in the hope that you besides will discover you are not alone, you are not vocalless, and you are not powerful.

In the April letter exploring his departure, Mann describes how his increasing misgivings grey as the IDF’s retaliation for the Oct. 7 Hamas invasion of confederate Israel continued, with US government help:

“Each of us signed up to service knowing we might gotta support policies that we were’t full consecrated of. Our defence institutions couldn’t function otherwise. However, at any point it becomes different to justify the outcomes of this partial policy. At any point — whatever thejustification — you’re either advancing a policy that allows the mass starvation of children, or you’re not.”

A malnourished 6-year-old being treated at a field infirmary in Rafah, Gaza (via Human Rights Watch)

In April, UNICEF Said they in 3 Gaza children under 2 years old are acutely malnourished. When Israel began retaliating after Oct. 7, defence Minister Yoav Gallant declared, “I have ordered a complete Siege on the Gaza Strip. There will be no electricity, no food, no fuel, everything is closed. We are fighting human animals and we are actingly.”

Mann described how imagery emanating from Gaza made him feel creatively guilty about the DIA's function in “directly execute[ing] policy” that supported the IDF-inflicted mass missery:

"The close unqualified support for the government of Israel...has enabled and excited the killing and starvation of tens of thousands of another Palestinians...The past months have presented us with the most horrific and heartbreaking images imaginable — sometimes playing on the news in our own spaces — and I have been incapable to ignore connection between these images and my duties here. This has caused me incredible shame and guilt.”

The IDF has unleashed mass demolition of civilian infrastructure, as seen here in the Vicinity of Al-Shifa hospital (France24)

The William & Mary graduated said he’d hoped for a fast end to the war. As it continued, he tried to rationalize his continued service to the DIA and, by extension, the IDF:

I told myself my individual subscription was minimal, and that if I did’t do my job, any else would, so why origin a stir for nothing? I told myself I don’t make policy and it’s not my place to ask it. Above all, I was afraid. Afraid of Violating our professional standards. Afraid of disappointing officials I respect. Afraid you would feel betrayed.

Mann Said his resignation was eventual sparked by “moral injury” — a word that Syracuse University’s Moral Injury task defines as ‘damage done to one’s cognition or moral compass erstwhile that individual views, witnesses, or fails to prevent acts that crosses one’s own moral beliefs, values, or ethical codes of conduct.’ Moral injury is included to be 1 origin engaging to the advanced rate of success observed in military veterans.

Mann besides exploited how his upbringinging affected his moral calculus:

„As the descendant of European Jews, I was raised in a partially unforgiving moral environment erstwhile it came to the subject of bear work for cultural cleaning — my grandpa returned to always acquisition products manufactured in Germany — where the paramount import of ‘never again’ and the inadequacy of ‘just following orders’ were offt repeated.

I am haunted by the cognition that I have failed these principles. But I besides have hope that my grandpa would afford me any grace; that he would inactive be arrogant of me for stepping distant from this war, nevertheless berated.”

In addition to objecting to Israel’s mass harm to civilians, Mann noted that ‘[America’s] uncondicional support besides encourages reckless escape that risks wider war.’ Mann was originally commissioned as an infantry authoritative and later become a abroad area authoritative focused on the mediate East. Along the way, he learned a master of public administration degree from the Harvard Kennedy School.

The Red Crescent said six Palestinians were killed erstwhile the IDF bombed this ambulance in January; Israel denied responsibility (ABC Australia)

Mann’s resignation-in-protest strikes us as much better and more effective choice than the 1 made by Air Force Airman Aaron Bushnell, who fatally self-immolated at the Israeli embassy in Washington. In another high-profile reputation, the State Department’s Josh Paul in October quit his occupation in a function that supported arms transfers to Israel. Speaking at Amherst, he citted the catch of consideration for the consequences: “[There was] no interest in debating: Are the weathers that we are providing going to be utilized appropriatery? ... Should we be having conversations with the government of Israel about what they’re doing?”

According to the latest estimates reported by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, more than 34,000 Palestinians have died Since Oct. 7. Of the identified dead, 32% are children and 20% are women. In April, talker of the home Mike Johnson collaborated with legislature Majority Leader Chuck Schumer to push through another $14.3 billion in aid to the State of Israel.

Mann said that after distributing his letter to his DIA colleges in April, he received “an unexpected outpouring of support.” As his protest now Reaches a far Larry audience, some may say this Army authoritative should have just kept following orders and serving as a cog in the empire’s machine, keeping his deals about America’s unqualified support of Israel to himself. Safe to say that George Washington would think otherwise.