"But I don't think anyone would say that Hitler had committed genocide had he only succeeded in killing a few thousand Jews before being stopped." - CarolC

I would never have had you pegged as a holocaust denier Carol - 6,000,000+ cannot or could not in any way be passed off as "killing a few thousand Jews".

"The government of Israel, on the other hand, has been in the process of eliminating Palestinians as a people since before Israel became a state." - CarolC

Really CarolC?? When exactly?? If memory serves me correctly the only time the Jewish Settlers and latterly the Israelis ever fought their Arabs neighbours was immediately in response to an attack by those neighbours on them - the concept is known as self-defence.

By the bye CarolC how many Palstinians did the Israelis deliberately kill today??

Oh CarolC, Here are those population figures:

Late Ottoman Period 1851 to 1919:
- 1851 - total population 340,000 - 327,000 Arabs - 13,000 Jews
- 1919 - total population 565,000 - 500,000 Arabs - 65,000 Jews

British Mandate 1921 to 1948:
- 1922 - total population 816,000 - 723,000 Arabs - 93,000 Jews
- 1948 - total population 1,969,000 - 1,319,000 Arabs - 650,000 Jews

OK then CarolC a fierce degree of "genocide" and "ethnic cleansing" went on before Israel came into being. The Arab population has almost doubled.

Post Mandate to present:
- 1950 - total population 2,375,100 - 1,172,100 Arabs - 1,203,000 Jews
- 2005 - total population 10,414,800 - 5,139,100 Arabs - 5,275,700 Jews

In 1950 the percentage of Jews making up the total population was 50.65%

In 2005 the percentage of Jews making up the total population was 50.65%

Rather weird figures considering all that "genocide" and "ethnic cleansing".