Nonfiction
Date Published: 08-28-2025
Publisher: Tellwell
Operation Cast Lead ensued as a mechanism to decide the fate and resolution of this question. The author was conflicted as her tendency to humiliate herself in her fantasies interfered with how she interpreted the story and how she responded to it while Operation Cast Lead unfolded, a war that took place between Hamas and IDF at the climax of the story of Sonny and Kate.
What was the truth of this connection? Why has Gaza been held hostage to this story ever since? What’s the way forward for Israelis and Palestinians? What’s the way forward for humanity?
The book argues that Operation Cast Lead was a design, and attempts to place the case within the current framework of international law while acknowledging that there are fundamental flaws in this framework and that there should be transformation at the foundation of international law for humanity to have a breakthrough and realize true freedom.
This book reveals a secret about history. A secret that would explain why the conflict in the Middle East has not met its resolution. As well as the conflict at the core of humanity.
Introduction
In 2008-2009, I was a witness to the story of Sonny and Kate. The story arc that began in June of 2008 had woven into it the legacy of the character of Stone.
Stone was a young man who worked and lived on the streets and to whom Sonny gave refuge. As he used drugs, he eventually became infected with HIV. His health was deteriorating and Sonny and Robin celebrated Christmas for him on Thanksgiving that year. This was written in the 1990s.
The story of Stone was revisited in 2007-2009 embedded within the story of Sonny and Kate, although not explicitly mentioned in all its details. The Thanksgiving story of 2008 was written in the memory of Stone.
However, narration and dialogue were ambiguous and the structure of the story suggested that the Kate character could be humiliated.
How the story was interpreted was key; given the inherent ambiguity, the story “could go either way”. The many sides involved in that circumstance attempted to influence how the story would be written and this translated into many “suggestions”, “hints” and “rumors” in soap magazines and on soap message boards.
In the midst of chaos, my own tendencies and conflicts entered the scene. A few months before, the thought of Kate being humiliated may have been a fear of mine. However, everything contains its contradiction, and it was the case that a conflicting tendency was present as well. I had humiliating fantasies about myself since a very young age. At some juncture in the story of Sonny and Kate, I began to channel those thoughts on to Kate. There may have been hints of this in the summer of 2008, but these thoughts intensified later that year and into 2009.
This situation led to Operation Cast Lead where all the elements mentioned above came together leading to tragedy.
I kept part of this tale a secret for years until I eventually confessed to my own motives in that encounter. In 2023, I published a memoir on Substack explaining my choices in relation to the story and the war.
Many are aware of the circumstances around Cast Lead. However, my hope in writing the memoir was the possibility of a breakthrough. The breakthrough did not come about because of the events of October 7, 2023, and the war that ensued. It’s been the history of humankind, that when a truth is about to be revealed, a war emerges.
This book provides the details of the story and makes an argument to establish its connection to the war. It attempts to place this case within the current framework of international law and it argues that there are deficiencies in this framework that have left humankind prone to the design of a system that uses implicit coercion and ambiguity to achieve its aims. For humanity to break free, there needs to be transformation at the foundation of international law.
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