Excellent piece, Amy. I must take issue with one thing, well not so much take issue as explain, which I do whenever I see someone using the word genocide with respect to Netanyahu's possible war crimes in Gaza, why it's incorrect and dangerous to call it genocide. Equating Israel’s actions with genocide renders the word meaningless. As Brett Stephens wrote in the NYT in January https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/16/opinion/israel-hamas-war-genocide.html?unlocked_article_code=1.o00.YULi.VxiK2ug1t2bL&smid=url-share:

“It’s obscene because it politicizes our understanding of genocide, fatally eroding the moral power of the term. The war between Israel and Hamas is terrible — as is every war. But if this is genocide, what word do we have for the killing fields in Cambodia, Stalin’s Holodomor in Ukraine, the Holocaust itself?

Words that come to mean much more than originally intended eventually come to mean almost nothing at all — a victory for future génocidaires who’d like the world to think there’s no moral or legal difference between one kind of killing and another.”

Using the word genocide with respect to Gaza creates a false evil equivalency. Call it mass murder if you want. Call it war crimes. But don't give in and call it genocide, which is what Hamas, whose charter actually calls for genocide against Jews, wants, and who is sacrificing the citizens of Gaza for their own agenda.