Sorry about reviving an old thread, but this is just pure fairy-tale fantasy and displays serious ignorance of historical truth. Murdering a group of people with the aim of eliminating them is genocide, and can be used for ethnic cleansing. Yes, Israel's policies have been close to, if not completely genocidal on many occasions. Ethnic cleansing is the riddance of a certain ethnic group from a certain area, by genocide or otherwise (e.g, killing some, scaring the others out). Yes that did happen in 1948 (or around then) when 600,000 to 800,000 Palestinians were expelled from the newly formed