Hi Naresh,

Thanks for your comment. Yeh, in many ways it has, but it still functions as a democracy on some level but just for the chosen proportion of the population, who also enjoy human rights that are equitable to most nations in the West. But certainly the political and social treatment of the Palestinians is fascist in nature and delivery, and that fascist ideology and mindset, with respect to the Palestinians, runs through a large part of the Jewish population. It is a state that is built on contradictions, lies and a distorted vision of the past that is also fascist in nature, as is the idealised vision of the future (i.e. when the messiah returns) that can only be achieved by passing through the 'hardships' of the present that are brought about by the mythologised enemy. Part of the fascist narrative spouted by Netanyahu et al. is to equate the Palestinians to Nazis to show a continuity of the existential threat to Jews, and it is this enduring threat that underpins the psychological fears and traumas that Israelis feel - of which October 7 was just the latest incarnation - and that fear manifests itself as wholly disproportionate genocidal violence masquerading as the need for self-defence.

I recommend Jason Stanley's 'How Fascism Works,' if you haven't read it, for a basic understanding of the tenets of fascism and how they are creeping back today.

Thanks and have a good day

Peter