"Greater Israel" in the way you put it has been the aim of a strand of minority politics in Israel since 1947,not majority.Bit like saying, in a different context, what UKIP aspires to has been/is government policy.

Were what you say to take place, it would be getting close to genocide just like if HAMAS' charter was implemented in the whole area. But, it seems to me that objectively (and leaving out present events in Gaza which I am fundamentally opposed to)there are two points:

1.Israel is not set upon "reoccupying" Gaza or making it an "empty land" ready for settlement.

2. There are serious issues re settlements on the West Bank and my own position is things should revert to the 1967 borders, with the difference that the whole of Jerusalem be under UN control rather E Jerusalem than Jordanian control as a part of Jordan as it was pre-1967.But, Greater Israel, on the terms you assert is not on any government agenda in Israel, other than fringe parties or loony elements of more mainstream parties, just like HAMAS' charter (openly seeking extermination of all Jews on religious grounds) and sharia law (with discrimination against Christians) does not reflect the aims of all Palestinians.

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I think legaleagle should use a spell checker before he posts

Are Matt, stirling, nick,Kermit et al on their way out now to implement the solution they have come up with?

Indiscriminate shelling, soldiers dying, land being stolen, rockets being fired.

Thousands of innocents are dying and having their homes destroyed, and now Israel won't talk.

Is there anyone out there, perhaps of Austrian heritage, who could offer a final solution ?

I disengage, I turn the page.

Somehow, sometime we just knew that Arnold Schwarzenegger was going to be dragged into this.

'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)

You miss my point. Its not genocide and neither were any of my other examples. It IS brutal oppression which (and you'd know this already from reading my prior posts) is my opinion in answer to your question.. But, based on the poster I was responding to's criteria, all would be genocide. I was commenting on the ease with which people bandy the word "genocide" about, nothing more or less.