Israel pounds Gaza, threatens to kill Hamas leaders

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The Israelis are notably allergic to genocide, having returned to a land once theirs in reaction to one.

Or....alternatively, the abused have become the abuser. Just because a group has suffered genocide this does not make them incapable of committing it at a later date. Look through the history books and you'll see numerous examples of peoples who, having suffered greatly at the hands of stronger foes, have then gone on to commit appalling violence upon other peoples. Sometimes that violence has been committed against their once strong, but now weak, enemy, and sometimes that violence has been committed against an entirely new foe.

To suggest that Israel is incapable of genocide is to misunderstand human psychology entirely. Israel was forged through the extreme suffering of the Jewish people; consequently it is more militant and harsh than it might otherwise have been. Meanwhile the palestinian people are being forged into another militant and harsh group by their suffering at Israel's hands. This is the way of the world. Unless a truly neutral party is able to intervene the situation will continue to deteriorate.