Women in the Biden Administration Complicit in the Israeli Genocide of Gaza
By Retired Col Ann Wright
author Susan Abulhawa reminded us of the hypocrisy of U.S. and many other Western leaders who refuse to stop the Israeli genocide.
“It’s clear to me that we’re not here to debate whether Israel is an apartheid or genocidal state. This debate is ultimately about the worth of Palestinian lives; about the worth of our schools, research centers, books, art, and dreams; about the worth of the homes we worked all our lives to build and which contain the memories of generations; about the worth of our humanity and our agency; the worth of bodies and ambitions.”
Because if the roles were reversed:
if Palestinians had spent the last eight decades stealing Jewish homes, expelling, oppressing, imprisoning, poisoning, torturing, raping and killing them;
if Palestinians had killed an estimated 300,000 Jews in one year, targeted their journalists, their thinkers, their healthcare workers, their athletes, their artists, bombed every Israeli hospital, university, library, museum, cultural center, synagogue, and simultaneously set up an observation platform where people came to watch their slaughter as if a tourist attraction;
if Palestinians had corralled them by the hundreds of thousands into flimsy tents, bombed them in so-called safe zones, burned them alive, cut off their food, water, and medicine;
if Palestinians …
made Jewish children wander barefoot with empty pots;
made them gather the flesh of their parents into plastic bags;
made them bury their siblings, cousins, and friends;
made them sneak out from their tents in the middle of the night to sleep on their parents’ graves;
made them pray for death just to join their families and not be alone in this terrible world anymore,
and terrorized them so utterly that their children lose their hair, lose their memory, lose their minds, and made those as young as 4 and 5 years old die of heart attacks;
if we mercilessly forced their NICU babies to die, alone in hospital beds, crying until they could cry no more, died and decomposed in the same spot;
if Palestinians used wheat flour aid trucks to lure starving Jews, then opened fire on them when they gathered to collect a day’s bread;
if Palestinians finally allowed a food delivery into a shelter with hungry Jews, then set fire to the entire shelter and aid truck before anyone could taste the food
If a Palestinian sniper bragged about blowing out 42 Jewish kneecaps in one day as one Israeli soldier did in 2019;
if a Palestinian admitted to CNN that he ran over hundreds of Jews with his tank, their squished flesh lingering in the tank treads;
if Palestinians were systematically raping Jewish doctors, patients, and other captives with hot metal rods, jagged and electrified sticks, and fire extinguishers, sometimes raping to death, as happened with Dr. Adnan al-Bursh and others;
if Jewish women were forced to give birth in filth, get C-sections or leg amputations without anesthesia;
if we destroyed their children then decorated our tanks with their toys; if we killed or displaced their women then posed with their lingerie…
if the world were watching the live-streamed systematic annihilation of Jews in real time, there would be no debating whether that constituted terrorism or genocide.”
This is not a defense of the horrors of October 7
This article is not intended to be a defense of the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack on citizens of Israel that killed 1,200 persons, mostly Israelis but also international workers, some of whom were killed by the Israeli response in killing Israeli citizens in order to prevent the capture of Israeli soldiers, known as the “Hannibal protocol.”
I do not justify the murder of those killed on October 7 but will remind readers that the occupation of Palestine for the past 70 years and the virtually complete blockade of Gaza for the past 17 years, and six Israelis attacks on Gaza is, no doubt, the basis for the violent actions taken by Hamas and other militant groups on October 7.
Putting into Perspective the Past 16 Years of Israeli Attacks on Gaza According to statistics from the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, since the 2008-2009 Cast Lead two-day Israeli attack on Gaza until October 7, 2023, 7,087 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces (5,313 in Gaza, 1,730 in the West Bank and 44 in Israel).
During the same 16 years, 346 Israelis were killed (53 in Gaza, 162 in the West Bank and 131 in Israel).
159,831 Palestinians have been injured during that period (62,988 in Gaza, 96,736 in the West Bank and 97 in Israel).
6,534 Israelis were injured (3,996 in Israel, 2,432 in the West Bank and 106 in Gaza).
From the Top of the Biden Administration, Women Have Been Complicit in the Genocide of Palestinians in Gaza
Vice President of the United States Kamala Harris
Beginning at the top of the Biden administration, Vice President of the United States Kamala Harris was an integral part of the U.S. complicity in the Israeli genocide of Palestinians. She was involved in every major discussion and decision-making deliberation about sending huge shipments of weapons to Israel.
Samantha Power, Administrator, U.S. Agency for International Development and former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations.
Of all the persons in the Biden-Harris administration who should have refused to stay in government as the U.S. became complicit in the Israeli genocide of Gaza, it is Samantha Power, the Administrator of USAID, the world’s largest development agency with a global staff of more than 11,000 across more than 100 countries.
Samantha Power [Source: his.harvard.edu]
She had the responsibility for the U.S. response to mass starvation which is consuming Gaza, yet USAID did nothing to stop U.S. complicity.
Ironically, Power has written a Pulitzer Prize-winning book on genocide: “A Problem from Hell”: America and the Age of Genocide. In the book, Power asks the question: Why do American leaders who vow “never again” repeatedly fail to stop genocide?
This is a question she needs to ask herself!
According to the description of her book A Problem from Hell, Power “shows how decent Americans inside and outside government refused to get involved despite chilling warnings, and tells the stories of the courageous Americans who risked their careers and lives in an effort to get the United States to act.”
Power is definitely not the courageous person that she writes about in her book.
As the first administrator of USAID to have a seat on the National Security Council, Power, unfortunately, did not use her position to demand a cease-fire and an end to U.S. weapons to Israel.
Power was at the table in the White House when decisions on U.S. funding of weapons to Israel and lack of pressure on Netanyahu on the starvation of Palestinians have been discussed.
Power has a long history of dealing with international crises. Prior to joining the Biden-Harris administration, she served as the 28th U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations—from 2013 to 2017—under President Barack Obama.
Further, from 2009 to 2013, Power served on the National Security Council staff as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Multilateral Affairs and Human Rights, where she advised President Obama on issues such as supporting democratic governance, UN reform, LGBTQI+ and women’s rights, atrocity prevention, and efforts to combat human trafficking and corruption.
To add more reasons why Power should have resigned from the administration early into the Israeli genocide of Gaza, Power was the founding executive director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, and from 2017 to 2021 served as the Anna Lindh Professor of the Practice of Global Leadership and Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School and the William D. Zabel Professor of Practice in Human Rights at Harvard
Law School.
Besides Vice President Harris, of all people in the Biden administration who were in positions of power who should have resigned from the administration due to its complicity in the Israeli genocide of Gaza, it is Samantha Power…but she has not ….to her eternal shame.
Ironically, Power has two children who later will no doubt question their mother about her actions during the genocide of Gaza.
Karine Jean-Pierre, White House Press Secretary
As President Biden’s White House Press Secretary, in almost daily press briefings, Karine Jean-Pierre attempted to answer questions from the press about U.S. weaponry sent to Israel and how it is used by the Israeli military. Her blanket denials of any misuse of U.S. bombs and other munitions by Israeli military units and her justification of the Biden administration’s complicity in the Israeli genocide of Gaza ensure that her role will never be forgotten by the press nor the public watching her press conferences.
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