It would be one thing if this was totally out of character, but this is completely believable from the current Israeli regime, and the bloodlust of a huge chunk of the Israeli population. In fact, they literally drool for this type of thing, exterminating the Palestinians. You can look at the last two decades of Israeli behavior and know this is right up their alley. Not the sizeable amount of Israelis against an apartheid state, but the huge chunk of Israelis who love oppressing Palestinians and ultimately dream of them being eliminated as the pesky natives of their religiously appointed holy land.