It's not a stalemate.

https://www.ipcinfo.org/ipcinfo-website/alerts-archive/issue...

And that is part of the proclaimed calculus, such as:

> "If we act strategically correctly, there will be immigration and we will live in the Gaza Strip. We will not allow a situation where 2 million people live there. If there are 100-200 thousand Arabs in Gaza, all the talk about the day after will be different. They want to leave, they have been living in the ghetto for 75 years and are in need."

-- Smotrich, https://twitter.com/GLZRadio/status/1741347524693127398

Here is a list with more, that is work in progress apparently:

https://law4palestine.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Law-for...

> I am astonished you bring up ethnic cleansing, when all of the evidence points the opposite way: that Jewish people are victims of ethnic cleansing across the Islamic world

That is not the opposite of "is Israel calling for / committing ethnic cleansing". The opposite would be "it is not doing that".

And it's not dichotomy, a hot potato that only one party can ever possess. The history of persecution against Jews has exactly zero bearing on the question whether what Israel is doing right now are war crimes, ethnic cleansing or genocide. One crime doesn't prevent or legitimize the other.

> I actually think the "other options" are simple, though quite difficult in practice: Hamas & Fatah could put down their weapons

An alternative to the current actions of Israel isn't "what someone else could do differently", that's an alternative to the actions of those other parties. And things like blowing up the Supreme Court building after posing for selfies in it (= no fighters), attacking refugee camps and disrupting their water supply in the West Bank, and so on, cannot be remotely excused with Hamas.

> The Genocide Convention requires Israel, as a State party, to suppress “direct and public incitement to commit genocide,” regardless of whether genocide has actually transpired.

[..]

> Still, it does appear to us that Israel has failed – so far – to criminally investigate some specific public calls which seem to border on genocidal in their language. While Israel’s political leadership distanced itself from potentially genocidal language, it has also failed to apply meaningful political sanctions against the politicians making these comments (such as firing instead of merely suspending the junior minister responsible for the Atomic Bomb comment or launching any effort to remove the deputy chair of the Knesset after making the “burn Gaza” comment). Although there might be some mitigating circumstances, given the many challenges the country now faces, the slow and feeble response from Israel’s legal and political leadership to such extremely problematic statements, may not be compatible with its obligations under the Genocide Convention.

-- https://www.justsecurity.org/90939/selective-use-of-facts-an...

^ something the Israel Foreign Ministry retweeted, apparently before reading it carefully

> “The explicit calls to commit atrocities against millions of people have become, for the first time that we can recall, a legitimate and ordinary part of the Israeli dialogue,”

-- https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/jan/04/stakes-high-as...