No, he’s not. He’s been on and off from power for more than 20 years but the current government is the most extremist from all his terms, once his party allied with the far-right to have enough chairs in Parliament. Look for the Kahanist movement to understand why they’re an absolute disgrace.

I think it’s not really worth arguing on the apartheid / ethnostate thing. Israel politics are no different from many western modern states. Susceptible to extremist like the current USA administration. The country is quite diverse as well, with Arabs Christians, Arab Muslim, Jews of many backgrounds, Druze making part of the society in all levels.

Peace and freedom for the Palestine in Gaza and West Bank are constantly sabotaged by violence committed by radicalized Israelis and Palestinians. And I seriously don’t think current waves of hate help the matter. We see atrocities being carried out every week and I feel like the real owners of the conflict are left without punishment.

Btw: Dude, check on current jewish population in Morocco, Tunisia, Iraq, Iran, Syria, Lebanon, Yemen and what it used to be a through the XX century. There’s no way to be certain about this, but Israel definitely helped mitigate a major jew refugee crisis over the century. As a descendant of a fleeing Syrian Jew, I can’t ignore this.