Well written article, but your accusation of Hamas committing war crimes seems problematic. If combatants are only obligated "to do all they can to minimize the death and destruction if they do need to operate in areas where it is likely civilians will be hurt," then the fact that Hamas uses indiscriminate weapons would seem to support the claim that they're not committing war crimes: there's nothing more they can do to minimize civilian casualties when using such weapons. The only way I see around this is to claim that the use of indiscriminate weapons at all constitutes a war crime, which seems to me a dangerously broad definition. And I have to ask, how do you define the difference between genocide and ethnic cleansing? You agree that Israel's committing ethnic cleansing, and your own definition of genocide is acts "with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group" (emphasis mine). So what makes that different from what Israel's doing?