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In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the groupThe Palestinian people can be considered a national, ethnic, racial, or perhaps even a religious group. We can be sure they fall into at least one and probably more than one of these categories. The Palestinian people in Gaza constitute a "part" of the larger "group."Kramer stated that the "West" should stop funding programs that encourage, or allow, or facilitate, Palestinian births in Gaza. He stated that "breaking" Palestinian population growth is necessary to get to the "root" of the problems in Gaza. He also categorized growing birth rates in Muslim countries as a problem that we should be concerned with--not because, e.g., growing population rates in general are a strain on world resources, but because these projected new persons will grow up to be radical, criminal, dangerous, terrorists--and praised the fact that in several decades it is projected that birth rates in these countries will decline.Kramer's words are clear: he wants to halt Palestinian births in Gaza. This matches Article 2(d)'s definition of genocide.