Do not search for the ethical underpinnings for Israeli soldiers firing on, and killing, unarmed Palestinian protestors in Gaza. They don’t exist.
What does exist, or what’s manifest, is that the Israeli response toward Palestinian aspirations has coarsened. In other words, Israel’s response to Palestinian grievances, deriving from a long-stalemated negotiation, appears more and more to resemble a state of permanent repression, a deliberate — and calculated — violence.
Over the past decade (perhaps even longer), the Israeli government and Israeli society have moved implacably rightward, making it more difficult to find mainstream Israeli voices seeking to recognize and establish Palestinian human and political rights.