DOESN'T THIS SOUND A LOT LIKE GENOCIDE?????

Visiting scholar at Harvard’s Weatherhead Center , Dr. Martin Kramer, is proposing to solve the Palestine refugee problem by "stopping pro-natal subsidies to Palestinians with refugee status." In his very own words found on his blog (http://www.martinkramer.org/sandbox/2010/02/superfluous-young-men/), he states:

"Aging populations reject radical agendas, and the Middle East is no different. Now eventually, this will happen among the Palestinians too, but it will happen faster if the West stops providing pro-natal subsidies for Palestinians with refugee status. Those subsidies are one reason why, in the ten years from 1997 to 2007, Gaza’s population grew by an astonishing 40 percent. At that rate, Gaza’s population will double by 2030, to three million. Israel’s present sanctions on Gaza have a political aim—undermine the Hamas regime—but if they also break Gaza’s runaway population growth—and there is some evidence that they have—that might begin to crack the culture of martyrdom which demands a constant supply of superfluous young men. That is rising to the real challenge of radical indoctrination, and treating it at its root."

Kramer is actually proposing to curb the Palestinian population in order to prevent "superfluous young men" growing into radicals (aka terrorists)through methods of preventing birth of such males or having them fail to survive. Rather than considering the possibility that terrorists may be borne of oppression or through the US support of Israel's illegal occupation of Gaza and the West Bank, he claims that Islamic radicalism is intrinsic to the middle eastern population.

Genocide, defined by the UN in the post Holocaust era, includes the intention to prevent births within a "specific national, racial or ethic or religious group". His statements definitely support genocide as a solution to the Israeli Palestinian conflict. I, as a human being, find his statements extremely offensive. This also does not address why Palestinian refugees exist. They exist as a result of an illegal occupation of their homeland by the Israel military. Isn't driving Palestinians from their homes analogous to the treatment of Jews during the Holocaust?

Dr. Kramer's solution to the Middle East conflict is to cull the Muslim population by "rising to the real challenge of radical indoctrination, and treating it at its root" rather than understanding the "obvious effects of policies of displacement, subjugation, ethnic cleansing and continuous, traumatizing violence have on its victims". Dr. Kramer and his supporters will continue to utilize hysteria and preposterous logic to rationalize and further his ethnological agenda.