Progressive Politics

Interesting perspectives. As you say though Israel is a very flawed democracy. Palestinians (in Palestine) live within the geographical land borders of Israel, which are policed and managed by Israel, and find themselves in an apartheid system. Eg: if you're one of the ~3mil Palestinians living in the West Bank, you have no citizenship and no vote, whereas if you are one of the ~500k Jews living in the West Bank, you get citizenship, a right to vote, to protest, the protection of the army and many other rights.

The Palestinians have very limited autonomy under the Palestinian Authority, which has all but collapsed during the conflict due to the devastation levied against Palestines infrastructure. They have increasing laws and fines levied upon them by the Israeli govt - the largest is probably tax. They previously had their taxes reimbursed to the PA by Israel who collects them - but this has always been at the will of the Israeli govt, and has been withheld to the sum of several hundreds of millions of dollars in the last decade. Under 2018 law Israel just keeps an amount they decide based on how much they think the PA has paid to families incarcerated or killed by Israel (quite an opaque process). So they are significanly taxed, policed, and governed by Israel, hell they control their water and power and food - but they have no representation, and very limited rights. That is not democracy.

I would say that the Israelis have done their best to follow the pattern of other repressive regimes: slowly take away rights of the outgroup until they have none left - and as the group responds - initially peacefully, respond with increasing force at every opportunity, and eventually so too will those protesting their conditions, and justification will be met for the violent suppression that was initially desired.

I guess the real test will be the response of the Israeli govt to their protesters - because I suspect they will find themselves next on the chopping block. If the main method the Israeli govt have of solving their political problems is escalating violence then that will eventually be turned inward.