Martin Shaw (British sociologist and academic, research professor of international relations at the Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals and Sussex University, Professorial Fellow in International Relations and Human Rights at Roehampton University, and author of “What is Genocide?”) (2010) “We can conclude that pre-war Zionism included the development of an incipiently genocidal mentality towards Arab society… Israel entered without an overarching plan, so that its specific genocidal thrusts developed situationally and incrementally, through local as well as national decisions. On this account, this was a partly decentred, networked genocide, developing in interaction with the Palestinian and Arab enemy, in the context of war ”( Martin Shaw, “Palestine In An International Historical Perspective On Genocide”, 9 Holy Land Studies 1, 13 & 19, 2010; quoted in (Center for Consitutional Rights, “The genocide of the Palestinian people: an international law and human rights perspective”, 25 August 2016: https://ccrjustice.org/genocide-palestinian-people-international-law-and-human-rights-perspective ).