Harvard Fellow Did Advocate Palestinian Genocide?

http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/02/22/is_harvard_prof_advocating_palestinian_genocide/

Is this genocide that Prof. Martin Kramer of Harvard, the Washington Institute of Near East Policy, and president of Israel's Shalem Center is advocating here? I think it may be as the international genocide treaty specifically bans "imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group."

But here, Kramer argues that a good way to stifle Palestinian radicalism is by preventing Palestinian males from growing up by stopping either their conception or their survival. The way to do that is to cut off international aid that engenders procreation. He also suggests that the Israeli blockade is having that effect.

Here is part of what Kramer says.

"Aging populations reject radical agenda 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%. 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 they also break Gaza's runaway population growth and there is some evidence that they have. That may begin to crack the culture of martyrdom, which demands a constant supply of superfluous young men."

Here is Kramer's rebuttal to my charge. In my opinion, his rebuttal is worse than his original speech. Incredible.

Note: Kramer is on the faculty of the neocon Shalem Center in Jerusalem and has been named president of its new 4 year college. It is funded by the union busting Bush-Cheney supporting casino mogul Sheldon Adelson.