What will boomerang back to the west from the killing fields of Gaza? Every genocide requires the total dehumanisation of its victims, and Palestinians are no exception. They were “human animals” and “human beasts” who would suffer “hell”, declared Israeli leaders. “It is an entire nation out there that is responsible,” said Israeli president Isaac Herzog. Other Israeli politicians called for “erasing all of Gaza from the face of the Earth”. “It is not a far stretch to say there are very few innocent Palestinian civilians,” declared Republican Congressman Brian Mast, while Fox News host Jesse Waters labelled Palestinians “savages”.