Don't you think, David if that is so, that Israeli leaders are intelligent enough to have realised it and called their bluff by NOT treating them as secondclass and encouraging settlers to push them off their Gaza lands? Or to NOT make a bad situation worse by flattening Gaza and escalating their response to the October incident by tens and hundreds of times of deaths and the intended annihilation of the Palestinians? We know that the Old Testament ethos was "an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth" and that much retribution would probably have been accepted, but multiplying the punishment so much is not justice, it is genocide.