When I read "genocide," I think of Crocodile Dundee showing the hoodlums what a "knife" is. Don't cheapen the word. Israel has never had extermination as a goal. Expulsion, yes, but not extermination. What Ferdinand and Isabella did to the Jews was not genocide. What the Allies did to Dresden, Hiroshima, and Nagasaki, were not genocides. These acts may well deserve condemnation, but as a Jew, I want "genocide" to be saved for, well, genocide.

This is not a semantic quibble. The word "genocide" is used precisely to end conversation and inquiry into who, exactly, bears the burden for what atrocities. Just call it "genocide" and you win. The people of Gaza are not being collectively punished. They are being sacrificed for PR purposes by an army that hides among them.

All's fair in war, so using human shields and whinging about their deaths certainly fits within "by any means necessary." But the tactic deserves more serious inquiry than can be mounted by someone who starts a sentence with "Henry Kissinger, a Jew..."

You've got some great quotes. It's a shame they are made up. How hard did you, in your quest for insights, work to vet them? Did you find them folded into your copy of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion? Shame on you.