That country was built on the premise of protecting its people from another genocide like the one that they had experienced. What the founders probably never imagined is that it was the country they were building which would come to be the one to start another genocide.
No, it is not self-defense anymore what Israel is doing; it is plain and simple genocide - the killing of 2m and more people, whether directly (shooting them) or indirectly (by starving them to death). (1/2)