Genocide? This is in fact what genocide looks like:

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285. Fire bombing raids killed as many if not more civilians than the nuclear bombs. We could have fire-bombed every Japanese

city because they had not air defenses left. Your cynical approach would condone such an action. By international law, an invading force is morally required to protect civilians of the attacking power at the expense of any of its people. Particularly when the "attacking power" has lost its ability to defend itself as is the case in Gaza, and as was the case in Japan.

If I could extend the comparison with the attack on Japan, the US dropped two nuclear bombs to force the Emperor to announce a surrender. By the same token, hasn't Israel visited Gaza with enough destruction to consider a cease fire? The Palestinian people have no one to surrender for them. The US and other countries are trying to negotiate a cease fire to allow the formation of an interim political leadership to be formed that can answer for Gaza, and plan peace and recovery. Netanyahu is against that for a number of reasons including his own political survival, his evasion of justice for crimes for which he has been indicted, and his belief that Israel has the right to settle Israelis on Palestinian land.