here we are being all moral and wondrous as is the empire's practice, until someone notices that the emperor has no clothes, and speaks to it;

A senior official for the U.S. State Department has resigned after a report she worked on falsely concluded that Israel has not been blocking humanitarian assistance to Gaza, going against the overwhelming view of the experts who contributed to the report.

Stacy Gilbert, a 20-year State Department veteran who served as a senior civil military adviser for the State Department’s Chief Humanitarian Office, said she was horrified when she found out the Biden administration falsified the document, which was then used to justify sending billions of dollars' worth of weapons to Israel.

Although the team had found that other factors also affected the flow of aid into Gaza, such as a lack of security caused by Hamas, it was obvious to them that Israel had a hand in limiting the medical supplies and food that made their way across the border to Gaza.

“It is absolutely the opinion of the humanitarian subject matter experts in the state department, and not just in my bureau – people who look at this from the intelligence community and from other bureaus. I would be very hard pressed to think of anyone who has said [Israeli obstruction] is not an issue,” she noted.

According to Gilbert, the subject matter experts who had worked on the report were taken off of it and informed it would be edited by those at a higher level, which meant they did not know what it would say until it was released.

She said that although she had been initially hopeful that the report would be honest since the White House showed some signs it may be toughening its stance on Israel, announcing a few days before the report’s release that it would pause sending 2,000-pound bombs to Israel that have been causing serious destruction in Gaza, she was “shocked” when she read the report when it was published on May 10 and saw the words “it is our assessment that Israel is not blocking humanitarian assistance.”.........more.........