Citing Ethnic Cleansing, US Army Major Resigns Over Israel’s Assault on Gaza | Common Dreams

Palestinians mourn next to the bodies of their relatives

“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,” wrote Maj. Harrison Mann.

The New York Timesreported that it is not known “whether other military officers have resigned in protest of U.S. foreign policy” since the Hamas-led attack on Israel in October and the IDF’s deadly retaliation, “but the resignation of an active-duty officer in protest of U.S. foreign policy is likely uncommon—especially one in which the officer makes public the reasons for doing so.”

Source: Citing Ethnic Cleansing, US Army Major Resigns Over Israel’s Assault on Gaza | Common Dreams