Josh Paul, a State Department official, resigned in protest of the Israel-Gaza war and is now working to change Americans' perception of the Middle East.
State Department official Josh Paul caused a stir when he resigned in protest of the Israel-Gaza war. Months later, he’s still fighting to change how Americans think about the Middle East . Josh Paul , a State Department career officer who resigned in protest over U.S. support for Israel's operation in Gaza, sits in his office at Grinnell College. He spent February teaching a policymaking class at the school in Iowa. (Kathryn Gamble)Israel was unyielding.
Hamas and the Palestinian Authority traded accusations. Nobody paid attention to civic groups or tribal leaders. After two rounds of debate, the college students role-playing as negotiators were stuck with bleak prospects for the Gaza Strip. The sole compromise was a watered-down rejection of “violence” that didn’t name perpetrators or victims. “You’re the one group that got to some sort of agreement — by being so general that it was almost meaningless,” Paul said, to laughter from the student
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