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Californians of a certain age can recite it by heart: A 1994 ballot initiative sought to make life miserable for undocumented immigrants, with proponents claiming that unchecked migration was destroying the Golden State by burdening social services and changing the demographics of cities.

It’s about destroying our culture.

A few weeks ago, after Iran attacked Israel with missiles, Trump said Israel should “hit the nuclear“—i.e., it should respond by destroying Iran’s nuclear facilities. President Biden persuaded Netanyahu to launch a “proportional” retaliation, which he did, destroying Iranian missile factories, aircraft, and air-defense sites.

By contrast, the commission’s October finding that Israel is committing the crime of extermination in Gaza relates to the commission of massacres, not to their purpose: “More significantly still, genocide must be these acts carried out with the purpose of destroying a protected group in whole or in part. Extermination does not involve that genocidal purpose. It is mass killing, but it need not be accompanied by a purpose to destroy the group in whole or in part,” Sidoti told Salon.

"It is against Israeli hooligans who were destroying our city."