Israel's 'permanent security' quest is a policy with sinister implications

The most explosive allegation against Israel is also the most emotionally painful one. A state founded in 1948 as a refuge for Jewish survivors of Adolf Hitler’s terror is committing genocide today, contend a range of historians, including Holocaust scholars, human rights groups, and an independent U.N. commission. Genocide is narrowly defined as the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group, “as such.” It is known as “the crime of crimes,” so applyin...