The White Lady Attaché, Netanyahu’s Gazan Genocide, “No child gets shot in the head twice by accident”

DMWL Episode 16: Israeli Snipers Intentionally Target Children

The White Lady Attaché focuses on newsy stuff outside our borders—not necessarily about ourselves—but yeah, still kinda.

PHOTO: Young girl clutching a doll amid the rubble. Gaza, 2024. Getty Images.

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Dear Mrs. White Lady,

The genocide happening in Gaza—perpetrated by Netanyahu with intention, deliberateness and unlimited U.S. weapons and cash—is heinous. And now, he’s assassinated the head of the Iranian Army, other Iranian military and state leaders, nuclear scientists, and civilians.

Oh, and four days ago the U.S. State Dept. ordered non-essential diplomats, staff and their families to leave our U.S. embassies in the Middle East. It was so very kind of Bibi to give Donnie the heads-up before the missiles launched. 🖇️

And to think—only a week ago, the Chosen One assured his flock, “There’s going to be a great peace in the Middle East. I will bring a great peace.”

BREAKING NEWS 10:43 AM JUNE 16:

UNITED NATIONS DECRIES GENOCIDE IN GAZA: “HISTORY WILL RECORD THIS: THESE ATROCITIES MUST STOP NOW” 🖇️

150,000 PROTESTERS MARCH THROUGH STREETS OF THE HAGUE TO DEMAND ACTION AGAINST GENOCIDE IN GAZA 🖇️

A White Lady’s Dossier on Israel’s Genocide in Gaza

Genocide is a sociopath’s vision. A well-articulated, cultivated erasure of a people, fueled by dehumanization. It is defined by its intent. (As outlined by Geneva Convention V. 1948).

First, let me assert that the war in Gaza is not about Hamas.

Hamas’ political leaders have been hiding in plain sight in mansions and five-star hotels in Qatar, Egypt and Turkey this whole time. They could easily have been intercepted in Qatar or as they jet-setted around the globe.

Second, any remaining Hamas foot soldiers and their families we thought were holding out in underground tunnels in Gaza at the start of the war—would have sought refuge in other countries months ago.

Netanyahu provided the world with the justifications he needed for the relentless attacks on civilian targets. Using the equally heinous October 7, 2023 attacks as a starting point, he persuaded the world with two arguments; that a.) Israel has the right to exist and b.) Hamas uses civilians as human shields.

Netanyahu’s human shields argument intentionally obfuscates the line between civilians and soldiers, between occupied people and enemy combatants. This rhetoric gives him cover to attack both civilians and soldiers indiscriminately and with equal force. That’s war. I get it.

The intentional targeting of children, maternity hospitals, schools and camps. Starvation, infanticide, femicide, mistreatment of prisoners of war. These are the components of the erasure of a whole people.

These are war crimes. And we’re just getting started.

If you have trouble accepting that genocide is being perpetrated by the Israeli government. Then bear with me for a while longer.

I won’t need to convince you. Your own very capable mind will sort that emotional labor out for itself.

Additional resources:

GENEVA CONVENTION VI: Protection of Civilian Persons In Time Of War. August 12, 1949. 🖇️

JEAN-PAUL SARTRE. GENOCIDE: “Destroying one part of the group (ethnic, national religious) to terrorize the rest and déstructure[ing] of a native society.” March - April 1968. 🖇️

KATHERINE GOLDSMITH: The Issue of Intent in the Genocide Convention and Its Effect on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. (Includes origins of the term.) 2010. 🖇️

I. An Essential Question: What’s Taking So Long?

I fancy myself a logical, common-sense sort of person with a good vocabulary. Not really in genuis territory, but it gets the job done most days.

So, I have to ask myself—like Miss Rosanne Rosannadanna (SNL) 🍿🎥 has asked so many times before—Self…

What could possibly take an army, convinced of its own invincibility—and armed with U.S. weapons and political cover—20 months to eliminate terrorists in an area the size of a postage-stamp?

And by postage stamp, I’m talking teen-weeny. Like it’s a 25-mile strip of land—an itty-bitty, tiny patch of land—like Staten Island—only prettier.

Gilda would have done this more justice than I. But humor me for a few minutes more.

Let’s suppose you’re one of the many Americans who commute 25+ miles a day to get to your job or drive about as far to take your kids to the cineplex. Sure, it’s a haul to get to the Post Office or fetch groceries—but all in all—it’s not a huge expanse. I think most of us would agree with that.

For those among us who identify as farmers or farmer-adjacent, 25 x 12 miles plot of land is the equivalent of 45,000 acres of usable farmland.

Fun Fact: Did you know that before the war, Gazans produced an abundance of citrus, olives, grapes, vegetables, dates and watermelon. (For the record, I would’ve guessed olives and dates—but watermelon was not on my bingo card!)

Heck, when it comes right down to it, Gaza is so small and so close to Tel Aviv—that this war could be the first-ever Commuting War! (Kind of a work/kill from home hybrid.)

You know. Israeli soldier does his war gig during the day—clocks out at 4 pm to make it home for the kid’s soccer game, grab dinner and a shower—and clocks back in at the front lines before Stephen Colbert even has a chance to begin his monologue.

Yucky Map-Talk

Did you know there is such a thing as fear of maps? Yup.

Cartophobia.

I always suspected this was a thing.

On roadtrips, mom would toss the carelessly folded paper missile to the backseat. The only sharp corner of the folded thing would hit me square in the forehead. And there goes my protected nap time.

I accepted my mission readily: Decode Interstates from rural routes. Avoid rotary intersections (aka round-abouts) and navigate North from Northwest. Left turns from Right for a seething father figure unwilling to ever ask a stranger for directions.

I was a nearly-capable, backseat-station-wagon-cipherer. So, I can empathize with the White Lady map problem, even if I am a bit of an outlier.

To be fair to the Ladies, I’ve known grownass men who’re just as frightened of spiders as my mom was of maps and map culture.

TRIGGER WARNING: MAP BELOW

I’ve included a map of the postage-stamp-sized nation in question—complemented with original artwork. Okay, it’s just a little red arrow I scratched in to point out how teeny-weeny Gaza is compared to the region.

If Charlotte were here she’d have used her mad skills more adroitly. But alas, it’s a good beach day, so she’s nowhere to be found.

It’s not like I pay her anything. She just comes by because she likes my coffee. Sometimes I wonder, though—if it wouldn’t be healthier for her to have a real job to go to. But then again, avoiding the bonds of effing capitalism may be the better path.

But I digress.

Ta-daaah! Gaza is So Tiny!

More White Lady Geography Talk—But I Promise, No More Maps!

If you're still traipsing through the muck with me, I’m so glad.

The postage-stamp sized Gazan nation is 140 sq miles—about the same size as Seattle or Detroit.

Since I’ve been to Seattle a total of one time for a wedding that I’ve a hazy recollection of and visited Detroit once for a trade show, I selected a geography that I was more familiar with to test some of my assumptions.

I picked Cape Cod. I’ll tell you why.

Despite being 2.5x larger than Gaza, Cape Cod is a comparatively vulnerable region accessible from the sea—and like Gaza—has only two passages in and out. The Cape has the Bourne and Sagamore bridges (parking lots ten months of the year). And Gaza has the Rafah Crossing on the Egyptian border and Erez Crossing on the Israeli side.

So, inspired by the Socratic method—and questioning myself as Roseanne Rosanneadanna would—I pressed on.

So, I said to myself, Self…

Do I think it would take a sophisticated, hi-tech army 20 months or more to capture the bad guys on Cape Cod?

No. I do not.

It’s preposterous.

Can you imagine the entirety of the Israeli Army focused on overtaking the coastal towns of Barnstable and Chatham by force?

Or the military deftness required to overpower lobstaah skiffs, fend off battered boats dredging for Ipswich clams or navigate around humpback whales frolicking with their calves or spy hopping in Cape Cod Bay?

Humpback Whales “spy hopping” Queensland, Australia. OIAA.

Spy hopping is a uniquely humpback whale behavior. In shallower waters they balance their fluke tails on the sea floor and bob up and down with their eyes above water. It’s a transformative moment to be eye to eye with a humpback who decides you’re worth a second look. Talk about being seen!

Admittedly, this is a photo of humpbacks in Queensland, not Massachusetts. But it’s an awesome oceanographic shot nonetheless.

Okay. So where were we?

Right. Israel is still in Gaza 20 months after the attack? It begs all credulity.

Many of us may know the Israeli Navy commandeered the humanitarian ship Madeen about ten days ago. She was carrying humanitarian aid, (food, medical supplies, baby formula).

The French and Spanish diplomats aboard, its crew and activist Greta Thunberg were arrested, jailed in Israel and later deported. The ship and its contents confiscated and likely destroyed.

Get this. The Israelis described it as a selfie-yacht. Yet, after searching it and finding it to be indeed only carrying baby formula and the like, overtook the vessel by force.

Does that seem like overkill or is it just me?

Article 59 of the 1949 Geneva Conventions requires an occupying power to provide free passage of shipments of food, clothes, and medical supplies through impartial humanitarian organizations. Like this one or the Red Cross (IRCC).

So if you’re keeping track of Israeli war crimes. Add this to the list.

Apropos of nothing, L.A. County, CA is 4,100 sq miles. (And, if my White Lady math is correct, that means L.A. County is 30x larger than Gaza.)

II. “No child gets shot in the head twice by accident.”

Allegations: Israeli snipers are deliberately targeting children

If you already suffer from nightmares, maybe skip this section.

Israeli snipers are using children as target practice. Maybe it’s sport, boredom, or good-ole fashioned hate.

Below are verbatim testimony from MDs who have served in Gaza. 🖇️ 🖇️

Dr. Mimi Syed: An emergency room physician who volunteered in Gaza in the summer of 2024, stated that she treated at least 18 children under the age of 12 with gunshot wounds to the head or chest in one month.

Dr. Mark Perlmutter: An orthopedic surgeon who visited Gaza in March 2024, recounted seeing children with gunshot wounds to the head, and specifically mentioned two children who were shot precisely in the chest and the side of the head.

Dr. Feroze Sidhwa: A trauma surgeon who worked in Gaza, reported seeing a child with a gunshot wound to the head almost every day.

Dr. Sidhwa's survey: Dr. Sidhwa conducted a survey of 53 American medical professionals who had served in Gaza, and 44 (over 80%) stated they had treated children with gunshot wounds to the head and chest.

CT scans: Showed children with head wounds, including an 8-year-old girl with a gunshot wound to the head and the bullet lodged in her brain.

Israeli bombs we’re launched into the car park of an European Hospital in Khan Younis killing and wounding dozens.

The Israelis say the leader of Hamas was hiding in a command-and-control compound under the hospital. The army said it conducted a "precise strike" and blamed Hamas for cynically and cruelly exploiting the civilian population in and around the hospital. Hamas denies such charges.

I won’t post them, but if you can stomach it their stories are told with dignity by the BBC (May 3, 2025). 🖇️

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I beg your pardon—I’m being summoned to throw a squeaky, mini-tennis ball to deescalate tensions on the home front with my Pomeranian, Miss Emma.

Back soon.

III. The Rhetoric of Endless Conflicts

The Geneva Convention V. of 1948 differentiates genocide from massacres by the stated intent of the occupier, oppressor or invading party.

Dehumanization is a precursor to violence.

They’re human animals.

Gaza will be our slaughterhouse.

We’re erasing the Gaza Strip from the face of the earth.

ARGUMENT #1: Israel Has the Right To Defend Itself”

Netanyahu uses this rhetoric to fan the flames of Palestinian-ophobes (my word)—with the widely-accepted axiom, “Israel has the right to defend itself.”

In comic-book, villain-speak this roughly translates as:

We get to exist—so others must die!

Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur of Occupied Palestinian Territories was asked at Cannes if “Israel had the right to exist.”

Albanese is an international legal scholar. She attended Cannes to represent Fatwa Hassouna, the 25 year-old Palestinian filmmaker who was murdered by the Israeli Army in 2024, days before her wedding. The Israelis also killed 10 members of her family, including her pregnant sister. 🖇️ Add that to the list of war crimes.

The screening of Hassouna‘s film, Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk, which documents the war in Gaza from her experience, was overshadowed by her murder. 🍿🎥

A journalist’s question to Albanese at Cannes was meant to make her appear frivolous for attending. Her response when asked, “Does Israel have the right to exist?” was poweful.🎥 🔗

Does Israel have the right to exist!

Israel DOES EXIST. Italy EXISTS.

Other countries exist.

There is no international law that says a country has the right to exist.

What is enshrined in International Law is the Right of a PEOPLE to exist. 🔗

UN Rapporteur Albanese defeated their arrogant follow-ups with a decisive blow.

More than 400 people have been killed each week in Gaza in the past two months alone. Children are being killed after [Israeli] politicians have explained WHY they should be killed… If this isn’t genocide, then what is? 🔗

ARGUMENT #2: Hamas Uses Gazans As Human Shields”

The Israeli public stance for the past two years has been that Hamas uses civilians as “human shields.”

The human shields talking point has been so widely accepted, it goes unchallenged. Shame on all of us—for falling for it with zero evidence.

According to the IDF’s Press Machine: Every hospital, school, office building or bakery is a front for Hamas. Tunnels hidden below ground, house Hamas terrorists.

So the bombing of schools, dormitories, maternity hospitals and refugee shelters is acceptable. Justified. Maybe even sanctioned by God himself.

Editor’s Note: No verifiable reportage photo or video evidence of this assertion exists.

IV. Documented Intelligence: Israeli Soldiers “Are Systematically Using [Prisoners] As Human Shields”

Intelligence reveals that Israeli Soldiers are systematically using detainees as human shields.

No, you did not misunderstand that. The IDF is systematically abusing Palestinian prisoners in Gaza.

Days ago, in a little read and under-appreciated exposé, the Associated Press published extensive interviews of former detainees and Israeli soldiers. The investigative report confirmed what Israelis said only animals do.

One former detainee recounted he was used to suss out explosives in buildings as part of the Israeli ground offensive.

He was was blindfolded and bound for weeks, except when he was forced to enter apartment buildings to trip explosives/booby traps with his own body as collateral. He was nothing. He was as good as dead to the Israeli soldiers. They handed him from platoon to platoon as some sort of talisman.

Imagine the psychological and emotional warfare of being forced to enter one building after another. Your only choice: follow commands and live to die another day—or take a bullet to the head in an act of defiance.

Then consider your compounding trauma each night, sitting alone with your thoughts and fears, blindfolded, bound and starved.

The verified accounts by Israeli soldiers and POWs have been published by the AP 🖇️ and BBC. They have not been reported in the U.S. media.

V. The Afterthought: What About the Hostages?

What about the hostages? What of diplomacy? What of high-value human intelligence and Special Ops Commandos Mossad is known for?

An estimated 251 hostages were taken on Oct. 7. Four months ago, 57 hostages were believed to still be alive. Now? We don’t know. The Israelis are not searching in earnest for the remaining hostages.

Humanitarian aid worker @

Greg Hansen

—who for some reason tolerates a de minimus correspondence with me—recently posed this question:

How does the indiscriminate bombing of Gaza help negotiate the release of hostages?

Three male hostages who were surrendered by Hamas at a checkpoint in November 2024—waved white shirts overhead to Israeli soldiers—they were shot on sight. Their release had been coordinated and agreed to. The Israeli Defense Ministry later said it was an unfortunate mistake.

Likewise, a female hostage said that she did not fear her captors, but feared the constant bombings from the IDF in the buildings she was shuttled between, and the lack of food or clean water.

VI. Hamas Leaders Are Hiding in Plain Sight? What Gives?

Hamas’ Political Chief who’s worth $4 billion splits his time between luxury hotels in Qatar and Turkey.

So, I ask myself, Self…

If Netanyahu wanted to eliminate Hamas, why not just imprison Hamas political and military leaders residing poolside at their five-star hotels and mansions in Qatar?

It’s a fair question.

The point of Netanyahu’s violence is not the shattering of Hamas’ military power.

It is the permanent eradication of Palestinian refugees in Gaza.

If Hamas exists today—it does so as a well-capitalized idea, ensconced in luxury, dripping with privilege. Not a scrappy attempt to subvert Israel’s regional authority.

The absurd notion that envoys of Netanyahu’s Defense Ministry are in negotiations with Hamas is obscene, gross and implausible. Netanyahu has funded the lifestyles of Hamas leaders for at least a decade.

It’s interesting to note that while Colonialism seeks to extract a strategic advantage as well as natural resources—it requires the labor (free or slave) of the subjugated people.

Genocide, on the other hand, needs no reason to keep the occupied population alive.

VII. Israel’s Failure to Launch An Immediate Offensive

With what you now know about Gaza it’s fair to ask,

Self…

Why did it take the IDF more than eight hours to power-up their American-made Blackhawks and F15 fighter jets to fly 20-50 miles to defend their own people?

Attack at the Music Festival

October 7th, 2023, a music festival near the Gazan border was attacked. At least 1,200 were killed, 800 were civilians, the rest were foreign workers, first responders and military. An estimated 40 were American tourists, students or aid workers. There were 241 known hostages. The attack was horrific in every way.

It was also a hodgepodge strike designed in MacGyver-style-fashion.

Armed paragliders. Motorcycles. Tractors and ploughs. Pick-up trucks. Simple demolition charges. Detonating drones.

This was not a sophisticated military attack. It was well-coordinated, yes. But in truth, it was a militia-vigilante raid.

Local kibbutzim were decimated; its inhabitants murdered or kidnapped. Torture that would turn anyone’s stomach. Young women’s breasts were slashed completely from their bodies. They were paraded in the back of open trucks as they were raped to death.

It was also a weekend of reprieve for Israeli troops to observe National Forgiveness & Happiness Day, known as the Simchat Torah. And the culmination of high holy days.🖇️

While the Israeli Army appeared flat-footed and slow to respond, there is ample evidence and testimony that Netanyahu was aware of these attacks and could and should have stopped them.

The Israeli military was capable of responding remotely with machine guns and other weapons at the Gazan border.

• In 2006, Israel completed the construction of a $220 million security system along the Gaza border—boasting a 7-meter high wall, sensors, remote-controlled machine guns, barbed wire, a 150 meter buffer zone, and watchtowers erected every 2 kilometers. The security wall was adjacent to and was meant to protect the three local Israeli kibbutzim (plural for kibbutz.) 🖇️

• For weeks prior to the attacks, Israeli Officers charged with surveilling the Israeli/Gazan border reported numerous military exercises by Hamas in full view of the Israeli Army. One high-ranking Israeli Officer told the AP, the reports she sent up the chain of command went unacknowledged.

And yet, it took Netanyahu’s well-trained, well-equipped Army more than eight hours to travel fewer than 50 miles from Tel Aviv to the Gazan border to launch a counter offensive?

It simply makes no sense.

Is it just me, or does it bother anyone else that our ignorance of basic geography enabled the spread of these narratives?

As an aside: I wasn’t in NYC on 9/11. I was on business in Chicago, stuck in a hotel room with food poisoning, heart palpitations and the sweats. Within minutes of the attack on 9/11, something I can only describe as a sonic boom shook the windows, roof and the entirety of the hotel.

Fighter jets were scrambling over Lake Michigan. This is how a well-prepared military responds.

VIII. Evidence Against Netanyahu Is Adding Up

The week of the October 7 attack, Netanyahu pulled troops from their command posts along the border so they could celebrate Simchat Torah. The music festival was planned for the same weekend and attracted music lovers, students, artists and tourists.

Experts of the region suggested that Netanyahu would have sacrificed his own people and its reputation for military might—to sponsor or provoke an attack so horrible, so reprehensible—that any act of retaliation against the Palestinians would seem justified.

Netanyahu’s Defense Ministry and PR machine ensured the October 7 attack was well-documented in widely publicized photos and video.

In late October, the Israeli Defense Minister closed all crossings out of Gaza, ordered a “total blockade” and a “complete siege,” cut access to water, food, fuel and electricity—with the intent to starve civilians. 🖇️ (Yup, also war crimes.)

South Africa Is First To Bring Charges of Genocide Against Israel to The Hague in January 2024

Imagine it! The former apartheid country now responsible for genociding White Afrikaners (Dutch-colonizers) was the first to drop a dime on Israelis! 🖇️

When is Enough, Enough? When Hell Freezeth Over!

When will Netanyahu hold an international press conference to announce, Mission Accomplished! Hamas is no more!

Well. Never.

“Is never good for you,” is also the caption of one of my favorite New Yorker cartoons.

But I digress.

War’s Impact on Gaza’s Population

Before the war, Gaza had 1.6 million living in 25 sq miles, making it one of the most densely-settled areas in the world. Compounding the stress of overcrowding, the Israeli Military continues to move Gazans to tighter, more concentrated areas, making them isolated targets.

• Gaza's population has declined by 160,000 since the Israeli/Gazan War began. 🖇️

• More than 55,000 are dead, more than half are civilian women and children. 🖇️

• 100,000 were able to flee. 🖇️

IX. Our Unclean Hands

U.S. Human Rights Abuses

The United States ranks 59 out of 195 countries in Human Rights abuses. Among developed countries—the U.S. ranked the sixth worst. But hey, at least we’re marginally better than Russia and China!

American Exceptionalism earned us a grade of D (scoring a 64). The U.S. falls short in three areas: torture, extrajudicial killings, and labor rights.

The remarks are damning:

• U.S. law enforcement agencies far too often utilize interrogation techniques that cross over into torture.

• Police kill more than 1,000 people every year, disproportionately black Americans.

• Lack of legislative effort to pass policing reform.

• Failure to develop national tracking of killings by police.

• Failure to comply with international standards on use-of-force laws.

SOURCES: Global Rights Project, 2023. 🖇️ 🖇️

U.S. Does Not Recognize the International Criminal Court (ICC)

The U.S. has a bad habit of exempting itself from various human rights obligations.

In 1967, the U.S. was charged at The Hague with Genocide against the Vietnamese people. The allegations: that as the aggressor in Vietnam, the U.S. Military killed civilians for the sole reason that they were in fact, Vietnamese.

In 2018, faced with International Criminal Court (ICC) investigations of a.) war crimes committed by the CIA and U.S. Military in Afghanistan and b.) Israel’s crimes against Palestine—the U.S. made threats to lead jurists of the ICC.

Under the Trump #45 Administration, Pompeo and Bolton threatened members of the Court of The Hague with visa travel restrictions and personal sanctions if they pursued any investigations against the U.S. and Israel.

Source: The Trump Administration and International Law, Harold Koh, 2018. 🖇️

At the 2018 United Nations Conference, Trump said it outright.

“The United States will provide no support or recognition to the International Criminal Court. As far as America is concerned, the ICC has no jurisdiction, no legitimacy, and no authority.“

President Trump’s Statement to United Nations, September 2018. U.S. State Department. 🖇️

Human Rights Watch, 2020 🖇️

X. Dealing With Distortions of Fact, Acting In Good Conscience

Many of us may have been reluctant to accuse Netanyahu and his Defense Ministers of plotting to kill a whole people. Our slightest inclination to criticize the U.S.-funded war machine in Israel is squelched before we ever speak.

In the face of distorted narratives, do we remain muted? Faced with insurmountable evidence, are we willing to confront the depravity?

Netanyahu, his generals and loyal followers—are sociopaths with the vision to eliminate an entire ethnic class. It’s unfathomable. Bombing maternity hospitals, cutting off electricity necessary to keep newborns incubated, shooting toddlers in the head or chest to ensure they never have the chance to grow up—to simply be.

But the evidence is there.

Are Netanyahu and Trump so different? The rhetoric. The evidence. The brazenness of their publicly professed hate. And what of Trump’s immigrant-hating devotees?

Putting babies in cages and sending brown-skinned immigrants to death camps and the rhetoric of the great replacement theory demonstrates the requisite intent by the U.S. to eliminate ethnic minorities.

What now? It’s time we ask ourselves, Self…

How do we reconcile our country’s hypocrisy on human rights abuses and violations of Geneva Conventions and still accuse Israel of the crime of genocide?

Because we are witnesses to these atrocities.

Because we must.

If you’re still here with me. If you made it this far, thank you.

I’ll say goodnight or good morning. Much love.

-m.

Gilda Radnor as Rosanne Rosanneadanna, Saturday Night Live, 1979. 🍿🎥 🖇️

“It just to goes to show you—if it’s not one thing—it’s another.” -Rosanne Rosanneadanna

APPENDIX: A Primer on Xenophobia, Racism, Genocide and Zionism

Words matter.

Xenophobia: n. /zee-nuh-foe-bee-ah/ hate or fear of another’s nationality, culture or origin, particularly foreigners and strangers, or anything or anyone who seems foreign or strange.

Racism: n. /ray-siz-ism/ hate informed by beliefs about race and/or ethnicity.

Editors Note: Humans are capable of being both xenophobic and racist.

Genocide: n. /Jen-oh-side/ intentional destruction, erasure of a people, its culture, language, traditions, history, and the elimination of group’s ability to survive. May include starvation, intentional infliction of disease, infanticide, femicide, imprisonment, labor camps or tortuous conditions.

Zionism: n. /zie-un-ism/ a nationalist movement that advocates for a homeland for all Jewish people in the Biblical Land of Israel; or the organization of ideas that actively sought to achieve and form the Israeli state.

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Ms. Lachapelle is neither a diplomat, historian, social scientist, cultural anthropologist, economist, theologian, nor empathic Reki healer. The views expressed and stylistic choices are her own.