What Next - The State Dept. Official Who Quit Over Israel
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🗓️ 25 October 2023
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Summary
Why one State Department official who worked in weapons transfers quit over America’s policy towards Israel and Gaza—and what that says about U.S. policy in the Middle East.
Guest: Josh Paul, former State Department official working in arms transfers to foreign powers, who resigned on Oct. 18.
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| 0:00.0 | Her cure, Poirot, I found something. |
| 0:04.0 | You're invited to solve a mystery. |
| 0:07.0 | Come with me to a séance. |
| 0:09.0 | From beyond the grave. |
| 0:11.0 | There must be a rational answer for all of this. |
| 0:15.0 | From the brilliant mind of Agatha Christie. |
| 0:17.0 | You are up against something bigger than you! |
| 0:19.0 | Critics are calling it Kenneth Branagh's best Poirot yet. |
| 0:22.0 | Somebody is dead. |
| 0:23.0 | No one shall leave this place until I know who did it. |
| 0:26.0 | A haunting in Venice. |
| 0:28.0 | Available exclusively to buy and keep. |
| 0:36.0 | If Josh Paul was at work right now, he'd be busy. |
| 0:40.0 | Really busy. |
| 0:42.0 | He spent the last 11 years as a diplomat. |
| 0:44.0 | Simultaneous wars in Israel and Ukraine |
| 0:47.0 | meant a whole little late night emails |
| 0:49.0 | and early morning conference calls. |
| 0:52.0 | But last week, he quit. |
| 0:55.0 | This was a sudden decision. |
| 0:58.0 | I resigned because I don't believe |
| 1:00.0 | that US provided arms should be provided into a situation |
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