"Transfer," ethnic cleansing, is popular among the general public in Israel as a political "solution." Among the fundamentalist settlers, however, expelling the non-Jewish inhabitants is not a matter of expediency, which would be bad enough. It is rather a divine commandment, rooted in the Bible and Jewish law. But "transfer" is just the tip of the iceberg. Many settlers also believe genocide is a legitimate way of dealing with the "enemy." The right (for the more extreme, actually the religious duty) to genocide is based on the biblical story of the genocide of Amalek (Deut. 25:17-19) on God's orders. Accordingly, Jewish fundamentalists believe "Arabs are the Amalekites of today." Such views are widespread among the Brooklyn-born settlers as well as among their supporters and sponsors.

The root of the fundamentalist settlers' ideology is the belief that Jews are a 'chosen people,' superior to the rest of humanity and free of the moral obligations by which other nations must abide. Non-Jews are viewed as lesser beings. Some "moderate" fundamentalist rabbis do believe that after expulsion/genocide, there will be coexistence. The few remaining non-Jews will then recognize the Jews' superiority and be allowed to live according to the Talmudic laws for the so-called "ger toshav," namely, under severe limitations - they must not be citizens; they should be prohibited from sexual intercourse with Jews; according to some, they must not own property, etc. This may not be the Nazi race theory letter for letter, but it isn't far off.