I think I took Feld mainly as saying it's okay to kill politicians (and military) but not civilians.
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It is not genocide for Israel to eliminate members of resistance groups to it.
It is genocide for Israel to completely demolish all of the occupied peoples and towns, indiscriminately killing as many civilians as possible in the process of rooting out occupied resistance.
I think he agrees.
It is not a genocide for Israel to eliminate HAMAS members
It is probably a genocide to completely demolish all of Palestine and indiscriminately kill as many civilians as possible in the process of rooting out HAMAS militant targets
We need to ask ourselves: what do we really mean by “indigenous” and what do we mean by a “people”? I guess you could say that if “group A” was the first people in a region (very rare from what I can tell) then they are indigenous. But that depends on there being some kind of continuity between the members currently living there today and the people who first settled it. How can you tell that they are “the same people” and not two groups of people that happened to share the same region, separated by time?
I suspect that how we draw the lines between categories isn’t really real. The reality described by those categories is what’s real.
Let’s just all admit that it’s not really about some kind of collective ownership of land. It’s about not treating each other like dirt. And Israel and Hamas (but mostly, it seems, Israel) fail on that front.