"Genocide is forbidden by the 1948 Genocide Convention, which covers acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group as such, as well as direct and public incitement to commit genocide.

Beardedbruce: that is a pretty good description of what the Isareli's are doing in West Bank and Gaza. Don't agree? Just because the IDF isn't in there systematically slaughtering every man woman and child with military precision? But doing it they are, slowly but surely. Every facet of Palestinian life - even that of Palestinians living outside the Isareli state, is carefull controlled by the Israeli securicrats. The wall has bitten chunks of out palestinian land, and what Israeli settlements were disbanded with one hand, were re-established with the other elsewhere. The palestinians have been pushed to the margins, their lives reduced to tatters. When the Israelis conduct one of their so-called 'targeted assasinations' (murders) of Hamas officials etc., they generally manage to kill a few civilians along the way. Given enough time, genocide will be complete. So you still disagree? "Show me the gas chambers" you insist. Remember that long before the first gas chmaber was built in Nazi Germany, genocide was being conducted against the Jews in a variety of ways. Their businesses and commercial enterprises were driven to ruin, their people attacked and roughed up in the streets, their property confiscated, individuals murdered with impunity, their people exiled and driven from the country, the list goes on. All of these things happen in Palestine. The Nazis only got round to building the gas chambers when world opinion could no longer touch them.
Even the elements of racism are already in place. Look at these pictures of anti-Arab grafitti daubed in Hebron, coldly reminiscent of 'Juden' signs of 1930s Germany.

Anti-Arab Graffiti