Maeve Higgins: The US deploys Samantha Power as its Israel-backing 'face of concern'

As the US government’s highest-ranking Irish immigrant Samantha Power visits Israel, Maeve Higgins asks why she is complicit in its brutal assault on Gaza

The action Samantha Power takes every day does not stop the killing in Gaza, it hastens it, says Maeve Higgins.  Picture: Alex Wong/Getty

Samantha Power is the highest-ranking Irish immigrant serving as a US government official today. She is the administrator of the US Agency for International Development (USAid), and a member of the National Security Council (NSC) — President Joe Biden’s principal forum for national security and foreign policy decisions.

With these dual roles, she provides material support and diplomatic cover for Israel’s mass killing of the besieged Palestinians in Gaza.