Yes, this is Israel's goal. Your President, Prime Minister & several Israeli leaders have made public statements to this effect. That Israel is attacking whole communities, exterminating entire family lines, not only bombing civilians but ensuring they cannot receive treatment, blocking off all life sustaining facilities and pushing the entire population into the Sinai. These are just some of the proof.

That Israel is using the same tactics in the West Bank as well as arming the settlers, mass arrests of adults and children.

Your entire article is disingenuous. The world can see what Israel's doing. You are simply papering over the cracks and trying to justify the unjustifiable. BTW, the bombing of Dresden would have been a war crime had it occurred later.