A former senior US official who until recently helped oversee human-rights compliance by foreign militaries receiving American military assistance said on Wednesday that he repeatedly observed Israel receiving “special treatment” from US officials when it came to scrutiny of allegations of Israeli military abuses of Palestinian civilians. The allegation comes as the Biden administration faces intense pressure over its ally’s treatment of Palestinian civilians during Israel’s war on Gaza and matters because of who said it: Charles O. Blaha. Before leaving the post in August, he was a director o…