The invasions, bombings, and genocide include a land grab component, but their impetus is loss of status by settler colonist ethnic supremacists. The Zionist settlers demand the reestablishment of their sense of utter superiority, which has included:

• The return of all hostages with no number of dead Palestinian children being too high a cost.

• The reestablishment of "security" through subjugation and defeat of all Palestinians, but particularly those in ghettis that fight back.

• Defense and celebration of a Zionist rapist of Palestinian prisoners.

• Mass destruction of civilians in Lebanon to create Lebensraum for intimidated settlers to return to the North.

The entire settler colony has always been about genocide of the indigenous population, it was just previously doing so through an apartheid system of division, oppression, and forced relocation. Its very founders spoke openly of the necessity of displacing and making separate the non-Zionist population. Its population has demanded blood from the beginning and none of its major protests have been in opposition to the genocide. Quite the opposite.