https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/ndik83/south_afr...
"Israel is the nation state of Jews alone" Netanyahu responds to TV star saying Arabs are equal citizens (2019):
source: https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-israel-is-the-n...
This point is scarcely more than a deflection; the fulcrum of Israel's apartheid regime consists primarily in which Arabs are permitted to be citizens, and in particular those whose parents and grandparents were violently driven from Israel's current territory in what Palestinian Arabs call the Nakba [1]. The Israeli government blatantly wants to both claim the right to authorize violence in the occupied territories and blame the nominal governments of those territories for that violence. And however you want to frame the conflict philosophically, the practical reality is that the IDF has vastly more capacity to enact violence than do Hezbollah or Hamas. When was the last time either of them leveled a 10+-story apartment building in Israel [2]?
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nakba
[2] https://www.cnn.com/videos/world/2021/05/12/gaza-al-shorouk-...
It can be argued, therefore, that Israel is de facto the state.
