"Chehayeb told Salon Etzioni’s argument is “absolutely absurd” and reeks of hypocrisy. “If some writer said the only way to solve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is just to bomb Israel,” he said, “people would go up in arms about it.” He called it “ludicrous” that a prominent American professor “can just calmly say the solution is to flatten this entire city of 1 million people.” “I’m just speechless. It sounds ISIS-like, just eradicating an entire community of people,” Chehayeb added."