The Washington Post said that the administration of US President Joe Biden used black women as velvet gloves and iron fists in relation to the recent Israeli attack on Gaza, where more than 30,000 Palestinians were killed, and that both uses support US complicity in these atrocities and attempt to reduce their appearance.

The newspaper - in an article written by Karen Attia - referred to the visit of US Vice President Kamala Harris to the city of Selma, Alabama, to commemorate Bloody Sunday in 1965, when white officers attacked demonstrators protesting the police killing of Jimmie Lee Jackson and those demanding the right to vote, and severely beat them.

In this position, which gives an air of moral authority - as the writer says - Harris delivered the administration's last message about the plight of the Palestinians, declaring that "a very large number of innocent Palestinians have been killed," and she admitted, saying, "We have seen reports of families eating leaves and animal feed, and children are dying of malnutrition and dehydration,” and demanded an immediate ceasefire - at least - during the month of Ramadan, the release of detainees, and Israel allowing humanitarian aid to flow into Gaza.

But what Harris did not say was equally important. She did not criticize Israel's siege and deliberate aggression, nor did she mention the transfer of weapons to Israel. Instead, she referred to what happened to the Palestinians in Gaza as a "disaster" with unknown cause, as if a hurricane filled with bombs and bullets had exploded. From the Mediterranean Sea.

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Harris's speech during the commemoration - as the author says - was an expression of complacency masquerading as strength, and the "humanitarian aid drop" operations - which she promoted - were severely criticized as ineffective and pathetically insufficient, and seemed to be a sign of American weakness, even if It was not a sign of weakness, but rather the face of continued American cruelty towards the Palestinians.

It is unlikely that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will be influenced by Harris’s speech, which seems to aim not to persuade him as much as to calm the Democratic Party’s pro-Gaza and anti-ethnic cleansing base, especially since another black woman was hired by the US administration to send a completely different message to Netanyahu, when US Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield twice voted against calls for a ceasefire.

For many black observers, the images of these voices brought back memories of Colin Powell, the first black secretary of state, when he used his standing before the United Nations to defend the invasion of Iraq, and - in the eyes of the world - just like Greenfield, a black face who provided cover for America's direct and indiscriminate brutality. Direct in the Arab world.

But there were voices who did not toe this line. Last October, Cori Bush, a black Democratic representative from Missouri, was among the first American politicians to call for a ceasefire and humanitarian relief, when she wrote, “Let me be clear, the collective punishment of the Palestinians in Gaza is a war crime. My commitment to ending violence, brutality and oppression is not conditional."

Minnesota Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar has also been outspoken about brutality against Palestinians, introducing a resolution to block arms sales to Israel, and the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), a pro-Israel lobbying group, has pledged to spend millions of dollars to try to remove these black women from their positions, and can you imagine how much suffering and death could have been avoided if they had been listened to.