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A longtime State Department official resigned Wednesday over President Biden’s decision to provide lethal arms to Israel as it wages war on Hamas terrorists. 

Josh Paul, a now former senior official in the State Department’s Bureau of Political-Military Affairs, publicly announced his resignation in a letter posted on his LinkedIn page, arguing that supplying Israel with lethal weaponry and ammunition is “impulsive” and “immensely disappointing.” 

“I made myself a promise that I would stay for as long as I felt the harm I might do could be outweighed by the good I could do,” Paul, who worked in the State Department division ​​overseeing arms sales, wrote in his note. “In my 11 years I have made more moral compromises than I can recall, each heavily, but each with my promise to myself in mind, and intact.”

“I am leaving today because I believe that in our current course with regards to the continued – indeed, expanded and expedited – provision of lethal arms to Israel – I have reached the end of that bargain,” he wrote. 

National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan told reporters at the White House last week that the US “has surged ammunition and interceptors for [Israel’s] Iron Dome” missile defense system at the direction of the president, and would be providing the Israeli military with “additional capabilities” soon. 

Paul’s resignation comes on the same day Biden, during a high-stakes visit to Israel, pledged to ask Congress later this week “for an unprecedented support package for Israel’s defense.”