Quotes
Get your hands off me. Get your hands off me. Get your hands off me. Answer a damn question. You know about the Hannibal Directive? You know about Israel's nuclear weapons? Everybody from the ICJ. I was sitting here quietly, and now I'm being manhandled by two or three people,
Husseini said as he was escorted out of by the security
Everyone from Amnesty International to the ICJ (International Court of Justice) is saying Israel is doing genocide and extermination, and you're telling me to respect the process?"
Husseini asked Blinken
Now, this is a time of transition. And when we talk about transitions, sometimes we talk about passing the baton. That's what I'll be doing, but that's not what most of you will be doing. Most of you come Monday, you will keep running. And what gives me more confidence than anything else is to know that that's exactly what you'll do."
During his farewell remarks to the employees, Blinken saidYou have no compassion, You are a monster,
she addedI return to the highest calling in a democracy, that of being a private citizen. I'll no longer have the privilege of leading this institution. But I want you to know I'll be its champion - I will be your champion - forever. You, the custodians of the power and the promise of American diplomacy,
he addedI’ll tell you very bluntly, Blinken is lying,
Rharrit said
They are willfully — and I don’t say that word lightly, willfully — violating and evading US law,
said Rharrit, who resigned from the US State Department in AprilThis will haunt him for the rest of his life,
the former diplomat told Al JazeeraI don’t think as diplomats we are meant to enforce or implement illegal or inhumane policies and also ones that are fundamentally contradictory to US national security interests,
she told Al JazeeraYou are hurting me. You are hurting me!"
Husseini shouted as he clasped the table he was sitting at while he continued shouting at Blinken
I am asking questions after being told by [spokesman] Matt Miller that he will not answer my questions,
he continued as security guards Husseini said
Criminal… Why aren't you in The Hague,"
Sam Husseini, an independent journalist who is considered a longtime critic of Washington's approach to the world, shouted
My final words for Tony Blinken, Secretary of Genocide, and his smirking press secretary, Matt Miller”.
Blumenthal captioned the postWhy did you keep the bombs flowing when we had a deal in May?"
Max Blumenthal, editor of the Grayzone, an outlet that strongly criticizes many aspects of U.S. foreign policy, called out to Blinken, before he was escorted out
I'd also point out that in Israel itself, there are hundreds of cases that are being investigated,
Blinken saidYou helped destroy our religion, Judaism, by associating it with fascism.”
Blumenthal, who is Jewish and the editor of the publication The Grayzone, added
On the ceasefire, yes, I am confident, and I fully expect that implementation will begin, as we said, on Sunday,
he saidI'm sorry, but we're going to have to ask you to leave."
A woman approached Blumenthal and said
Why did you allow my friends to be massacred?"
The other reporter was Max Blumenthal, the editor of The Grayzone News, who asked BlinkenI am justified in what I'm doing,
Husseini said as officers grabbed his arms and pulled him to stand from his chair